Dwarven Story Time by Oetzi90

Format: Commander

Commander: Balin, Loremaster

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-red Dwarf tribal deck helmed by Balin, Loremaster, built around a single explosive play: get three artifacts, legendaries, or Sagas onto the battlefield to establish an *enduring story*, then repeatedly trigger Balin's (or another Dwarf's) entrance to discard your hand, draw a huge new hand, and deal that much damage to each opponent. The entire machine is fueled by a dense discard-draw engine that turns every discarded card into card advantage, treasure, or direct damage. Magda, Brazen Outlaw acts as a secondary tutor for artifacts and Dragons, while Monument to Endurance and Cool but Rude pile on the pain. The deck has no infinite combos; it wins by turning its hand size into a firehose of red damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avengers Monitoring Station
  • 1 Balin, Loremaster
  • 1 Bearded Axe
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brallin, Skyshark Rider
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Change of Fortune
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dwarven Grunt
  • 1 Dwarven Hammer
  • 1 Dwarven Mine
  • 1 Dwarven Reinforcements
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fearless Liberator
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
  • 1 Gimli's Fury
  • 1 Gimli, Counter of Kills
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Hangar Scrounger
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Insufferable Balladeer
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Magmakin Artillerist
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mine Collapse
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 33 Mountain
  • 1 Plundering Barbarian
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rubble Rouser
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruin Grinder
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Surly Badgersaur
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Trash for Treasure
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Vault Robber
  • 1 War Room