Grub, Storied Matriarch by choosy.soup

Format: Commander

Commander: Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Rakdos Goblin deck operates as an aggressive token-swarm and aristocrats engine commanded by Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie. The early game focuses on deploying efficient Goblin creatures and mana rocks to establish board presence. By Turn 4, the deck transitions into its core engine by transforming Grub into Notorious Auntie to clone key attackers through the blight mechanic. Mid-game turns leverage explosive token generators like Krenko, Mob Boss, Squee, Dubious Monarch, and Boggart Mischief to rapidly flood the board. Threat onset occurs on Turn 5, pressuring life totals through combat and ETB burn from Impact Tremors. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by sacrificing its wide board to Goblin Bombardment or The Meathook Massacre, or by assembling the infinite combo of Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Zealous Conscripts. While vulnerable to exile-based board wipes and lacking enchantment removal, the deck maintains strong recovery through graveyard recursion and redundant token generators.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frenzied Goblin
  • 1 Fugitive Codebreaker
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Goblin Negotiation
  • 1 Goblin War Strike
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Molten-Core Maestro
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mudbutton Cursetosser
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, Dubious Monarch
  • 1 Stadium Headliner
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Ultimate Green Goblin
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Village Pillagers
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts