Aristocrats first try by ronansting2

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos theft-and-sacrifice midrange deck helmed by Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen. The plan is to steal opposing creatures with a dense suite of Act-of-Treason effects, sacrifice them for value and direct damage via front-face Ayara or outlets like Juri, Master of the Revue and Fling, then transform Ayara into Furnace Queen to reanimate high-impact artifacts and creatures from the graveyard with haste every combat. Token-leaving finishers such as Phyrexian Triniform, Triplicate Titan, and Myr Battlesphere plus drain pieces (Zulaport Cutthroat, Massacre Wurm) convert the stolen and reanimated bodies into multiplayer reach. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through attrition combat, repeated sacrifice damage, and opportunistic theft of the table's best threats. Ayara is a strong engine but the 99 still functions as a coherent theft/sac pile without her.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Act of Aggression
• 1 Act of Treason
• 1 Angrath's Marauders
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloody Betrayal
• 1 Captivating Crew
• 1 Cathartic Reunion
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Claim the Firstborn
• 1 Combustible Gearhulk
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fling
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Furnace Reins
• 1 Grab the Reins
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 Harness by Force
• 1 Hijack
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Illuminor Szeras
• 1 Imskir Iron-Eater
• 1 Industrial Advancement
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
• 1 Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1 Kethek, Crucible Goliath
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Mark of Mutiny
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
• 1 Mind Stone
• 15 Mountain
• 1 Myr Battlesphere
• 1 Nasty End
• 1 Nightmare Shepherd
• 1 Phyrexian Triniform
• 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Golden Throne
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Thud
• 1 Traitorous Blood
• 1 Traitorous Greed
• 1 Transmogrant Altar
• 1 Triplicate Titan
• 1 Twisted Fealty
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Vengeful Possession
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Wrangle
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat