rivaz by Erf300

Format: Commander

Commander: Rivaz of the Claw

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Dragon reanimator midrange deck helmed by Rivaz of the Claw. The plan is to fill the graveyard with expensive Dragons via loot and rituals, then deploy them through hardcasts, classic reanimation, and Rivaz's once-per-turn graveyard cast plus Dragon-only mana. Primary wins come from a wide flying board-token swarms off Lathliss, Dragon Queen, burn triggers from Terror of the Peaks, and extra-combat swings with Scourge of the Throne-backed by a single combo line of Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead for infinite mana and loops. The deck leans on high-impact individual Dragons (Balefire Dragon, Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Ancient Copper Dragon, the Smaug cycle) rather than dense tutors or stack interaction, playing as a grindy, recursive beatdown strategy that rebuilds from the yard and closes through combat damage and ETB burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Backdraft Hellkite
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bone Devourer
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Cordyceps Excision
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragon of Mount Gulg
  • 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Escape Containment
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Inferno of the Star Mounts
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Predator Dragon
  • 1 Preyseizer Dragon
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 S.H.I.E.L.D. Spy Satellite
  • 1 Scavenger Regent // Exude Toxin
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of Mount Velus
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon