Raul by stepelle

Format: Commander

Commander: Raul, Trouble Shooter

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir mill and Lantern control engine commanded by Raul, Trouble Shooter. The strategy leverages symmetric mill engines like Mesmeric Orb, Ripples of Undeath, and rad counters to stock all graveyards rapidly while using Raul's ability to cast key milled spells once each turn. A surveillance package featuring Lantern of Insight, Field of Dreams, and Wizened Snitches exposes the top card of every library, allowing precision mill tap-artifacts like Codex Shredder and Ghoulcaller's Bell to deny opponents their best topdecks. The deck pivots into a game-winning state by deploying high-impact payoffs such as Syr Konrad, the Grim, Consuming Aberration, Breach the Multiverse, or Rise of the Dark Realms. These cards convert accumulated graveyard cards into massive table-wide life drain or overwhelming board presence. Solid reactive interaction and countermagic safeguard the engine as it grinds the table down.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cathartic Adept
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauntless Scrapbot
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Eye Collector
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of Dreams
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Infesting Radroach
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nightkin Ambusher
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Predict
  • 1 Pyxis of Pandemonium
  • 1 Raul, Trouble Shooter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Screeching Scorchbeast
  • 1 Screeching Sliver
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Undead Hand Ninja
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vantress Gargoyle
  • 1 Vexing Radgull
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wizened Snitches
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer