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Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Aristocrats strategy led by The Great Goblin, blending Goblin tribal synergies with the Amass mechanic. The game plan focuses on generating continuous token fodder through cards like Dreadhorde Invasion, March from the Black Gate, and classic Goblin token producers. When counters are placed on Amassed Armies or Goblins, the commander dishes out targeted 2-damage burns; when those creatures die, it generates extensive impulse card advantage. Sacrifice outlets such as Goblin Bombardment, Phyrexian Altar, and Viscera Seer convert this fodder into mana, card flow, and direct damage, accelerated by drain staples like Blood Artist and Impact Tremors. While capable of explosive finishes via Bolas's Citadel or persist loops with Metallic Mimic and Putrid Goblin, the deck primarily operates as a high-synergy attrition engine that grinds opponents down by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Hordeling Outburst
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat