Feel my Pain [DSC](3) (retired 10/11/2026) by skrimp

Format: Commander

Creator: skrimp

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug and attrition strategy led by The Lord of Pain. Its game plan revolves around accelerating into its 5-mana commander by Turn 4 and turning every player's spellcasting into direct burn directed at opponents. The deck shuts down opposing lifegain while applying continuous damage through cards like Spiteful Visions, Stormfist Crusader, and Zoyowa Lava-Tongue. A supportive aristocrats subtheme featuring Braids, Arisen Nightmare, Accursed Marauder, and Ayara, Widow of the Realm grinds down opposing creature boards and card advantage. High-impact amplifiers such as Obosh, the Preypiercer and Grafted Exoskeleton turn moderate spell costs into lethal damage bursts. Backed by a dense suite of instant-speed removal, the deck controls explosive opposing threats while steadily shrinking the table's life totals toward a decisive Turn 8 close.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Barkform Harvester
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloodthrone Vampire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Defiler
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Kethek, Crucible Goliath
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 1 Mazemind Tome
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Obosh, the Preypiercer
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Possibility Storm
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rank Rat
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue