The Great Gob Nob

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Aristocrats strategy led by The Great Goblin, which turns +1/+1 counters placed on Goblins, Orcs, or Armies into direct damage while converting creature deaths into substantial impulse card advantage. The deck leverages amass cards like March from the Black Gate, Dreadhorde Invasion, and Orcish Bowmasters to repeatedly trigger the commander's 2-damage burn ability. In tandem, free sacrifice outlets such as Goblin Bombardment, Ashnod's Altar, and Skirk Prospector churn tokens into mana and extra cards. Damage amplifiers including All Will Be One, Impact Tremors, and Mirkwood Bats accelerate the clock, while persist creatures like Murderous Redcap and Putrid Goblin synergize with counter modifiers like Gev, Scaled Scorch and Thran Vigil to threaten game-ending loops. The deck plays aggressively on curve, assembling its engine on Turn 4 and threatening lethal table burn by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Elder Auntie
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rhovanion Rampager
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan