In Pain in the Membrane by Grollo

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug archetype commanded by The Lord of Pain. Its strategy focuses on accelerating early game mana to deploy symmetrical damage engines, tax effects, and damage multipliers. Cards like Manabarbs, Spellshock, and The Lord of Pain punish opponents for tapping lands and casting spells. The deck breaks symmetry by attaching lifelink equipment such as Basilisk Collar and Shadowspear to damage dealers, gaining immense life while draining opponents. Damage amplifiers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Furnace of Rath, and Fiery Emancipation turn chip damage into lethal bursts. Opponents are pressured into difficult choices by Painful Quandary and forced combat via Kardur, Doomscourge and Disrupt Decorum. The deck wins by steadily burning down all three opponents simultaneously across mid-game turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Curse of Bloodletting
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furnace of Rath
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Havoc Festival
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Obosh, the Preypiercer
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Sound of Drums
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wound Reflection