Tenpai by Bock16

Format: Commander

Commander: Piru, the Volatile

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Piru, the Volatile leads a Mardu graveyard reanimator that converts the commander's death trigger into a reusable one-sided board wipe. The real engine is Iname, Death Aspect: it can dump every Spirit in the library into the graveyard, setting up Living Death or Storm of Souls to return an army of legendary dragons. Board wipes buy time while Piru clears nonlegendary blockers, and legendary fliers finish through combat. Secondary lines use death triggers from Kokusho, Yosei, and Ryusei plus recursion like Karmic Guide and Patriarch's Bidding. The deck is a controlling midrange build rather than a fast combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cauldron Haze
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Footsteps of the Goryo
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Imposing Grandeur
  • 1 Iname, Death Aspect
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kagemaro, First to Suffer
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Piru, the Volatile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Promise of Tomorrow
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Returned Pastcaller
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
  • 1 Second Sunrise
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Storm of Souls
  • 1 Sublime Exhalation
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Visions of Ruin
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Yosei, the Morning Star