Rowan ia by kikeesmc

Format: Commander

Creator: kikeesmc

Commander: Rowan, Scion of War

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This Rowan, Scion of War deck is a fast, explosive Rakdos combo-storm deck designed to turn life loss into massive generic mana discounts. By leveraging pain lands, cheap self-harm cards, and high-velocity enablers like Wall of Blood or Plunge into Darkness, the deck taps Rowan to discount spells by massive amounts. This discounts heavyweight card-draw engines like Peer into the Abyss down to their colored pips, or fuels game-ending finishers like Crackle with Power, Exsanguinate, and Torment of Hailfire. Supported by efficient black tutors, fast ritual velocity, and clean backup win conditions like Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame, the list can close out pods on turn 4 with zero response cycles once its critical turn begins. While vulnerable to early spot removal on its commander, it runs dedicated protection and redirection spells to push its decisive win lines through opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut // Ribbons
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman