KAERVEK THE MERCILESS by jamikoXseajay

Format: Commander

Commander: Kaervek the Merciless

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos control/burn deck that uses Kaervek the Merciless both as a removal magnet and a tax on enemy spells. The main path is to park one or two spell-pingers on the battlefield, then convert every instant/sorcery into global damage while Furnace of Rath or Dictate of the Twin Gods doubles the totals. Secondary paths are Sorin Markov cutting a life total to 10 and Heartless Hidetsugu on an odd life total to finish under a doubler. There is no hidden commander or infinite combo; the deck grinds with Necropotence, Ad Nauseam, and The One Ring, then closes with Breath of Malfegor, Fiery Confluence, or Kaervek's trigger.

Decklist (97 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breath of Malfegor
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Collective Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furnace of Rath
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ruinous Rampage
  • 1 Seismic Rupture
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skewer the Critics
  • 1 Skullcrack
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will