The Great Goblin - by Tyler Savesya Bucks by momia89

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin aristocrats build led by The Great Goblin. The strategy blends wide token creation, counter placement, and sacrifice outlets to drain opponents and maintain constant card advantage. The commander acts as both a burn engine and a card-draw engine: whenever you place counters on your Goblins, Orcs, or Armies, it shocks an opponent, and whenever one of those creatures dies, it exiles a card you can play through your next turn. Supported by explosive token generators like Krenko, Mob Boss, anthem enchantments like Shared Animosity, and instant-speed sacrifice outlets like Goblin Bombardment and Sling-Gang Lieutenant, the deck quickly builds overwhelming boards. It reaches full operational setup by Turn 4 and pressures a decisive table kill around Turn 6. While vulnerable to exile sweepers and lacking blue counterspells, its dense recursion and redundant tribal engines make it resilient against standard spot removal and board wipes.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Boggart Birth Rite
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Chaos Spewer
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dropkick Bomber
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Negotiation
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gristle Glutton
  • 1 Grub's Command
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Heirloom Auntie
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mad Auntie
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mogg Fanatic
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Munitions Expert
  • 1 Obsessive Pursuit
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze
  • 1 Warren Torchmaster