This deck is somewhere between burn, aikido, and rumblings of a mad man by SamuraiShamu

Format: Commander

Commander: Ravos, Soultender and Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This four-color deck combines aikido, damage redirection, and political card draw under the partner pairing of Ravos, Soultender and Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist. The strategy revolves around deploying damage-sponging creatures like Brash Taunter, Stuffy Doll, Boros Reckoner, and Coalhauler Swine, then turning incoming attacks or massive symmetrical burn spells like Star of Extinction and Chain Reaction into lethal damage directed at opponents. Ludevic provides steady card advantage by rewarding life loss across the table, while Ravos offers reliable graveyard recursion to recover fallen creatures. By forcing opponents to attack through cards like Bident of Thassa and Courtly Provocateur, the deck turns enemy aggression against itself. While vulnerable to mass exile and slow tap-land mana fixing, the deck excels at creating explosive finishes and punishing creature-heavy boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allure of the Unknown
  • 1 Alluring Siren
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Charm
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Billiard Room
  • 1 Black Widow, Intel Expert
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Reckoner
  • 1 Brainspoil
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chef's Kiss
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coalhauler Swine
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courtly Provocateur
  • 1 Cursed Recording
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Donna Noble
  • 1 Dual Casting
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Feather, the Redeemed
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
  • 1 Hall
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Library
  • 1 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
  • 1 Mark for Death
  • 1 Master Warcraft
  • 1 Mind's Eye
  • 1 Mists of Lórien
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Ravos, Soultender
  • 1 Rediscover the Way
  • 1 Sage of the Inward Eye
  • 1 Selfless Savior
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shivan Meteor
  • 1 Simulacrum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulfire Grand Master
  • 1 Spirit Link
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Study
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Torch the Witness
  • 1 Unexpected Fangs
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Volcano Hellion
  • 1 Wail of the Nim
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack