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Format: Commander

Commander: Vial Smasher the Fierce and Jeska, Thrice Reborn

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Rakdos Group Slug deck pairs Vial Smasher the Fierce with Jeska, Thrice Reborn, constructed under the strict odd-mana companion restriction of Obosh, the Preypiercer. The strategy bypasses conventional combat stalls by weaponizing spell casts, land drops, and upkeeps into massive direct damage. Vial Smasher the Fierce converts high-mana-value spells with heavy cost reductions—such as Shadow of Mortality, Blood for the Blood God!, and Blasphemous Act—into devastating direct burn. Concurrently, global slug pieces like Descent into Avernus, Sulfuric Vortex, and The Lord of Pain apply symmetrical table attrition while denying life gain. Mana acceleration relies on midgame converters like Neheb, the Eternal and Rowan, Scion of War, which channel life loss into explosive mana surges. The deck finishes games by stacking exponential damage doublers through Obosh, the Preypiercer, Twinflame Tyrant, or Heartless Hidetsugu, eliminating all three opponents simultaneously across compact response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Browbeat
  • 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Footlight Fiend
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Ghostfire Slice
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Jaya, Venerated Firemage
  • 1 Jeska, Thrice Reborn
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Koth, the Geomancer
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Quest for Pure Flame
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Risk Factor
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Spiteful Repossession
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent