Santa claws by Noope

Format: Commander

Commander: The Beamtown Bullies

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Beamtown Bullies is a "bad gift" combo deck built around its commander's ability to give opponents dangerous nonlegendary creatures from the graveyard. The primary win condition involves tutoring Leveler into the graveyard, then using The Beamtown Bullies on an opponent's turn to put it onto the battlefield under their control. Leveler's ETB trigger exiles the opponent's library, causing them to lose on their next draw step. The deck fills the graveyard with a dense package of entomb effects, looting spells, and self-mill, then deploys the commander with haste to execute the donation. Secondary "gifts" like Master of Cruelties and Soulgorger Orgg can set life totals to 1, but the deck leans heavily on the Leveler line for a clean kill. It runs a solid ramp core and a handful of protection pieces to keep the commander online.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Inverter of Truth
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leveler
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magewright's Stone
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Riftsweeper
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulgorger Orgg
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Beamtown Bullies
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon