A New Reality of Aggro EDH by baestation_2

Format: Commander

Commander: Jiang Yanggu, Alone

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Jiang Yanggu, Alone to convert discard velocity into massive combat pressure. By attacking with a single creature each turn, Jiang triggers rummage effects that place +1/+1 counters on the lone attacker based on the number of cards discarded that turn. Fast looting spells like Faithless Looting, Burning Inquiry, and Change of Fortune fuel both hand quality and creature power. Damage multipliers such as Uncivil Unrest, Furnace of Rath, and Embercleave accelerate the clock, while Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar spreads commander damage across the table. If Jiang is removed, alternate independent beaters like Slicer, Hired Muscle, Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos, and Vincent, Vengeful Atoner maintain high offensive pressure. The deck controls life totals using Stigma Lasher and Sunspine Lynx, while relying on redirection spells like Bolt Bend to protect its key threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Rootwalla
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Cacophony Scamp
  • 1 Change of Fortune
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Flameblade Adept
  • 1 Furnace of Rath
  • 1 Goblin Lore
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Hollow One
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Alone
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Lightning Axe
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marauding Mako
  • 1 Misty Knight, Hero for Hire
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 31 Mountain
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
  • 1 Sabin, Master Monk
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Signal Pest
  • 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Stigma Lasher
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vincent, Vengeful Atoner
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai