Tom, Bert, and William by Pumpcover

Format: Commander

Commander: Tom, Bert, and William

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Aristocrats engine built around Tom, Bert, and William. The primary strategy pairs undercosted, high-power creatures like Hunted Horror, Rotting Regisaur, and Phyrexian Soulgorger with the commander's sacrifice ability to draw massive bursts of cards. Fast mana dorks accelerate the commander to the battlefield on Turn 4, immediately converting early beaters into five to eleven fresh cards. Once the hand is refilled, the deck transitions into lethal payoffs such as Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Psychosis Crawler, or The Skullspore Nexus, draining life totals across the entire table or crushing opponents with overwhelming power. Proactive control pieces like Grave Pact and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse systematically deplete opposing boards and punish resource generation. While the strategy relies heavily on creature permanents and graveyard interaction, the commander's built-in ability to return as an artifact grants durable resilience against board wipes, allowing the deck to close games consistently on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bebop & Rocksteady
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Chief Warg's Company
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptcaller Chariot
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortal Combat
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shakedown Heavy
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth