The Great Goblin by Loganstan1

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin Aristocrats combo deck commanded by The Great Goblin. The strategy revolves around sacrificing Goblins, Orcs, and Armies to trigger the commander's two synergistic abilities: dealing 2 direct damage to opponents whenever counters are placed on your creatures, and impulse-exiling cards whenever your creatures die. The primary win condition is an infinite persist loop combining Putrid Goblin or Murderous Redcap with counter-negators like Metallic Mimic or Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and a free sacrifice outlet such as Skirk Prospector, Phyrexian Altar, or Blasting Station. Once assembled, this loop places +1/+1 counters and triggers death effects infinitely, burning all three opponents out in a single turn. Dense early acceleration from rituals and low-cost mana rocks fuels rapid assembly by Turn 4, while a suite of tutors, impulse card flow, and targeted interaction ensures reliable execution and protection against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blasting Station
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
• 1 Boggart Mischief
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bolg's Company
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Goblin Chieftain
• 1 Goblin Cratermaker
• 1 Goblin Instigator
• 1 Goblin Matron
• 1 Goblin Warchief
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 1 Moria Marauder
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Nim Deathmantle
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Pashalik Mons
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Skirk Prospector
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Snowslope Hunter
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician