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Format: Commander

Commander: Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Rakdos reanimator strategy helmed by Ayara, Widow of the Realm. The game plan revolves around loading the graveyard with massive artifact and Demon creatures early through discard outlets like Faithless Looting and The Underworld Cookbook, then transforming Ayara into Ayara, Furnace Queen to reanimate them with haste every combat. High-power threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Triplicate Titan, and Ancient Stone Idol apply immediate pressure and generate resilient token swarms. Direct damage amplifiers like Flayer of the Hatebound, Warstorm Surge, and Ayara's front-side fling ability convert high mana values into lethal life loss. Supporting reanimation spells like Reanimate and Victimize provide fast alternative angles that do not rely strictly on the commander. The deck transitions smoothly from targeted resource attrition into a multi-opponent clock, closing out games by Turn 7 through overwhelming combat steps and unblockable burst damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfire Colossus
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Underworld Cookbook
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thud
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Vendetta
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Warstorm Surge