New Untitled Deck by Feld___

Format: Commander

Creator: Feld___

Commander: Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Voltron aggro deck built under the strict creative restriction that every single nonland card costs exactly one mana. Led by Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer, the strategy involves deploying the commander on Turn 1, curving out with low-cost Equipment, and turning sideways every turn to trigger Whiplash's life-drain ability. While the deck boasts format-ceiling deployment speed and high equipment redundancy, it suffers under the weight of its 1-mana restriction: it lacks dedicated ramp, tutors, and broad interaction, forcing it to pay full equip costs from a modest 30-land base. Evasion tools like Hot Soup and Cliffhaven Kitesail push commander damage through blockers, while Cultist of the Absolute and Bloodforged Battle-Axe scale its pressure. However, because it eliminates opponents primarily through sequential combat steps, it gives the table multiple response cycles to find board wipes or artifact removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Avacyn's Collar
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Barrow-Blade
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Blinding Powder
  • 1 Blood Fountain
  • 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Ceremonial Knife
  • 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail
  • 1 Colossus Hammer
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Darksteel Axe
  • 1 Dead-Iron Sledge
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Eater of Virtue
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Executioner's Capsule
  • 1 Faerie Dreamthief
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Glaring Spotlight
  • 1 Golem-Skin Gauntlets
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
  • 1 Heirloom Epic
  • 1 Hot Soup
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Hunter's Blowgun
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Infiltration Lens
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
  • 1 Mechanical Glider
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Neurok Hoversail
  • 1 Nezumi Linkbreaker
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Prosthetic Injector
  • 1 Prying Blade
  • 1 Reaper's Talisman
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Signal Pest
  • 1 Silver-Inlaid Dagger
  • 1 Slagwurm Armor
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Team Pennant
  • 1 Trusty Machete
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Utility Knife
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Zephyr Boots