Hellraiser

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Group Slug and Punisher strategy commanded by The Lord of Pain. The primary game plan revolves around deploying the commander to shut off opposing life gain and punish every player's first spell each turn with direct damage equal to that spell's mana value. The deck stacks damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Wound Reflection to escalate incidental damage into rapid, table-wide lethality. It also includes passive punishment pieces such as Painful Quandary and Polluted Bonds, alongside the infinite drain combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond. While the deck applies relentless passive damage, it operates with modest mana acceleration and minimal card draw, relying heavily on natural topdecks and permanent-based board presence. It features targeted removal and sweepers but lacks stack interaction and enchantment removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Battle-Rage Blessing
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Breath of Malfegor
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Tempest
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dogged Pursuit
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fell
• 1 Fevered Suspicion
• 1 Fiendish Duo
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Grievous Wound
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Jagged Barrens
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Master of Cruelties
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mount Doom
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Murder
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Offer Immortality
• 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
• 1 Oversold Cemetery
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1 Polluted Bonds
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Guildgate
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Repercussion
• 1 Revenge of Ravens
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Sadistic Shell Game
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Screaming Nemesis
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Lord of Pain
• 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
• 1 Wound Reflection