Rayami, First of the Fallen by Haninha

Format: Commander

Commander: Rayami, First of the Fallen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused Sultai Voltron strategy commanded by Rayami, First of the Fallen. The primary plan accelerates mana on Turns 1 and 2, casts Rayami on Turn 3 or 4, and sacrifices small keyword creatures like Gladecover Scout, Darksteel Myr, or Gurmag Swiftwing. When these creatures die, Rayami exiles them with blood counters, permanently inheriting static abilities such as hexproof, indestructible, flying, deathtouch, and haste. Crucially, blood counters remain in exile if Rayami leaves play, ensuring the commander re-enters fully empowered. Once protected, the deck multiplies Rayami's power using +1/+1 counter engines like Increasing Savagery, Hydra's Growth, and Blade of the Bloodchief, or grants infect via Phyresis and Tainted Strike. It pressures opponents starting on Turn 5 and eliminates the table through sequential combat steps by Turn 7, while Rayami's passive ability incidentally shuts down opposing graveyard and death-trigger strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Astarion's Thirst
• 1 Bassara Tower Archer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Biogenic Upgrade
• 1 Birthing Ritual
• 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1 Bontu the Glorified
• 1 Buzz Bots
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Darksteel Myr
• 1 Dragon Sniper
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fangs of Kalonia
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Fog
• 7 Forest
• 1 Gladecover Scout
• 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Gurmag Swiftwing
• 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
• 1 Harbinger of Spring
• 1 Herd Heirloom
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hydra's Growth
• 1 Increasing Savagery
• 5 Island
• 1 Kefnet the Mindful
• 1 Last Word
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Malcator's Watcher
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Neoform
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 Overwhelming Denial
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyresis
• 1 Phyrexian Crusader
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Qarsi Revenant
• 1 Rayami, First of the Fallen
• 1 Repulsive Mutation
• 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Slippery Bogle
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul's Might
• 1 Stonecoil Serpent
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Tainted Strike
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vampire Nighthawk
• 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Vashta Nerada
• 1 Venomthrope
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Wilson, Refined Grizzly
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya Coast