Thumbless Smasher by Skeleton20

Format: Commander

Commander: Krark, the Thumbless and Vial Smasher the Fierce

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck, helmed by the partner pair Krark, the Thumbless and Vial Smasher the Fierce, is a land-destruction control-burn hybrid. The primary game plan is to repeatedly destroy opponents' lands with a dense suite of sorceries and permanents, starving them of resources while Vial Smasher turns every high-CMC spell into direct player damage. Krark copies those spells for double destruction or (if the flip is lost) returns them to hand for reuse. The deck finishes through combat from large beaters like Ulamog's Crusher and Hypnox, or through explosive X-spells like Torment of Hailfire. Synergy pieces such as Dingus Egg and Black Vise punish mana denial, while board wipes like Toxic Deluge and Meathook Massacre II keep the creature count low. The strategy is single-minded, disruptive, and operates almost entirely at sorcery speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Army Ants
  • 1 Befoul
  • 1 Black Vise
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blight
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boil
  • 1 Charmbreaker Devils
  • 1 Choking Sands
  • 1 Conquer
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Hordes
  • 1 Desolation
  • 1 Despoil
  • 1 Dingus Egg
  • 1 Fear of Burning Alive
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fireball
  • 1 Fissure
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hypnox
  • 1 Icequake
  • 1 Illicit Auction
  • 1 Incinerate
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 1 Juggernaut
  • 1 Kaervek's Purge
  • 1 Krark, the Thumbless
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Maelstrom Artisan // Rocket Volley
  • 1 Mana Leech
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mishra's Juggernaut
  • 1 Mole Worms
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Settlers
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Petravark
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pillage
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Rain of Tears
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rancid Earth
  • 1 Reign of the Pit
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Shauku, Endbringer
  • 1 Shivan Dragon
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stone Rain
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Autonomous Furnace
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tremble
  • 1 Turn Inside Out
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Uncontrolled Infestation
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Worms of the Earth
  • 1 Worthy Cost