Kain, Traitorous Dragoon by Seraphielium

Format: Commander

Commander: Kain, Traitorous Dragoon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leverages Kain, Traitorous Dragoon as a card-draw and mana engine disguised as a political combat piece. Early turns focus on casting Kain and attacking an open opponent in the air to draw cards and bank Treasure tokens before passing him across the table. Goad auras like Bloodthirsty Blade and equipment like Assault Suit force Kain and opposing creatures to attack your rivals instead of you. Symmetrical draw engines like Howling Mine feed opposing hands while Orcish Bowmasters, Fate Unraveler, and Scrawling Crawler punish each draw step. The deck transitions into a lethal endgame using aristocrat drain engines like Mirkwood Bats, big mana finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Exsanguinate, or the deterministic two-card infinite combo of Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond or Bloodthirsty Conqueror to drain the entire table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Andúril, Narsil Reforged
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blessing of Leeches
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Hero's Blade
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Offer Immortality
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shredder's Revenge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival