Touch of Death by nemonescit

Format: Commander

Commander: Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger control deck led by Judith, Carnage Connoisseur. The strategy revolves around casting cheap instant and sorcery damage spells, using Judith's ability to grant those spells deathtouch and lifelink to wipe opposing boards or create 2/2 Imp tokens to build an aggressive board presence. With 38 lands, the deck consistently develops its mana on curve to cast Judith by Turn 5. Once established, asymmetric sweepers such as Blazing Volley and Breath Weapon reset opponents' creature boards while stabilizing your life total. The deck closes games through incremental burn, Imp death triggers, and heavy individual threats like Malignus and Tor Wauki the Younger. Because the list runs fair win conditions without infinite combos or mass haste enablers, closing out a full pod requires multiple turn rotations of combat and burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Accelerate
  • 1 Addle
  • 1 Artistic Process
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blazing Volley
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Breath Weapon
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Carbonize
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Disintegrate
  • 1 Duel Tactics
  • 1 Emissary of Despair
  • 1 End-Blaze Epiphany
  • 1 Farideh's Fireball
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fireball
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Fulminous Forte
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Goliath Daydreamer
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Impractical Joke
  • 1 Insult // Injury
  • 1 Invasion of Azgol // Ashen Reaper
  • 1 Irencrag Feat
  • 1 Jaya, Venerated Firemage
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mabel, Bitter Recluse
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Magmatic Channeler
  • 1 Malignus
  • 1 Meteor Swarm
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 19 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Overzealous Muscle
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spoils of Evil
  • 1 Steal the Show
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Suplex
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tackle Artist
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vayne's Treachery
  • 1 Zealous Lorecaster
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue