Goblin King by Yeti117

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos aristocrats and tribal burn strategy commanded by The Great Goblin. The game plan revolves around flooding the battlefield with Goblins, placing counters on them to trigger the commander's 2-damage burn ability, and sacrificing creatures to impulse-draw through the library. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with rocks and low-cost creatures like Skirk Prospector and Frogtosser Banneret to cast The Great Goblin by Turn 3. By Turn 4, engines like Gev, Scaled Scorch, Skullclamp, or Warren Soultrader establish sustained card advantage and direct damage. The deck accelerates toward a critical turn on Turn 6 using token engines like Krenko, Mob Boss and General Kreat, the Boltbringer, culminating in a Turn 7 table kill via non-combat damage or an infinite persist loop with Murderous Redcap and Metallic Mimic. Even against board wipes, death triggers provide fresh cards from exile to quickly rebuild.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Andúril, Narsil Reforged
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Diamond City
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exuberant Fuseling
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Gleeful Demolition
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Knucklebone Witch
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Munitions Expert
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Sourbread Auntie
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician