New Untitled Deck by user5728000

Format: Commander

Commander: Vial Smasher the Fierce and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Mardu deck blends aristocrats, lifegain synergies, and aggressive combat under the partner pairing of Vial Smasher the Fierce and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder. Vial Smasher provides incidental face damage whenever you cast your first spell each turn, while Bruse Tarl grants double strike and lifelink to your best attackers, fueling massive life swings and enabling lifegain payoffs like Ajani's Pridemate and Elenda, Saint of Dusk. The primary win condition is an infinite life-drain combo pairing Exquisite Blood with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond. The deck supports this game plan with a robust suite of efficient spot removal, sweepers, and targeted hand disruption to slow down opponents. If the combo is unavailable, the deck transitions effectively into a combat beatdown plan using high-impact threats like Aurelia, the Warleader and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse to close out the game through overwhelming life disparity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abraded Bluffs
  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Arbiter of Woe
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bonescythe Sliver
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
  • 1 Celestial Armor
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Cleric of Life's Bond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dusk's Landing
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fateful Absence
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Humiliate
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Leonin Warleader
  • 1 Lightning Helix
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Mardu Outrider
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Spike
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Night Nurse, Healer of Heroes
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pilfering Imp
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Purphoros's Intervention
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razortrap Gorge
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Specter's Shriek
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault Skirge
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag