Why are you hitting yourself? by user7345445

Format: Commander

Commander: The Beamtown Bullies

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Jund reanimator strategy centered on The Beamtown Bullies. Rather than reanimating massive beatsticks to its own board, the deck leverages its commander's tap ability to gift devastating creatures directly to opponents on their own turns. Cards with game-losing enter-the-battlefield drawbacks—most notably Leveler and Eater of Days—are tutored straight into the graveyard using efficient enablers like Entomb and Buried Alive. Once online on Turn 4, the commander immediately forces opponents to exile their libraries, skip multiple turns, or sacrifice their boards. Untap engines such as Thousand-Year Elixir and Seeker of Skybreak accelerate this process across consecutive player turns. If the commander is answered, the deck easily pivots to a self-contained reanimator plan with Pathrazer of Ulamog or an alternate win line using Doctor Doom, Unrivaled, backed by a comprehensive suite of low-cost interaction and stack protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boldwyr Heavyweights
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eater of Days
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Firestorm
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inverter of Truth
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magewright's Stone
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Plague Reaver
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quest for Renewal
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulgorger Orgg
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Beamtown Bullies
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground