Prototipo by user9416094

Format: Commander

Commander: Vial Smasher the Fierce and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This Mardu deck leverages the partner pairing of Vial Smasher the Fierce and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder to build an aggressive combat and burn engine. In the early game, you establish mana through steady land drops while deploying equipment and utility creatures. On Turn 3 and Turn 4, casting both commanders sets up recurring value: Vial Smasher converts your spells into random player damage, while Bruse Tarl grants double strike and lifelink to push heavy combat swings. The deck scales into the midgame using high-impact equipment like Genji Glove and Dark Knight's Greatsword, or heavy spells like In Garruk's Wake and Tyrant of Kher Ridges to trigger massive burn bursts. While the deck boasts heavy creature interaction and resilient double-strike backup plans through Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, its lack of fast mana, thin card draw, and reliance on sequential combat phases create a fair, turn-by-turn clock vulnerable to well-timed board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adelbert Steiner
  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bonebind Orator
  • 1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Channel Harm
  • 1 Clive's Hideaway
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Coeurl
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander
  • 1 Dark Knight's Greatsword
  • 1 Defiant Ogre
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Driftgloom Coyote
  • 1 Early Winter
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Fated Return
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Frilled Sparkshooter
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghostblade Eidolon
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Haste Magic
  • 1 Heartfire Hero
  • 1 Hooded Assassin
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Judge Magister Gabranth
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Lion Heart
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Cut
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Prompto Argentum
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Reach of Shadows
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rufus Shinra
  • 1 Samurai's Katana
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Siege Veteran
  • 1 Slash of Light
  • 1 Smite the Monstrous
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Suplex
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Tyrant of Kher Ridges
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Warrior's Sword
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Zack Fair
  • 1 Zell Dincht