Self Destruction Deck by ESMolen

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color control deck helmed by Child of Alara, designed to exploit asymmetric destruction. The 99 is saturated with indestructible threats, including Theros Gods, Eldrazi titans, and damage-reflecting creatures such as Brash Taunter and Stuffy Doll. The primary game plan involves ramping steadily into board-wipe superiority, repeatedly resetting opponents' nonland boards with Child of Alara, Planar Cleansing, and Supreme Verdict while preserving its own indestructible permanents. Once opponents are depleted of resources, the deck pivots into an infinite win condition utilizing Brash Taunter enchanted with Guilty Conscience, which creates a self-sustaining loop that directs infinite damage to all opponents in a single turn. Backup win conditions include heavy mana sinks like Torment of Hailfire, the tutor trigger of The World Tree, and large indestructible beaters like Blightsteel Colossus.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Guilty Conscience
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Karametra, God of Harvests
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kruphix, God of Horizons
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pir's Whim
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planar Cleansing
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vashta Nerada
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn