Updated Lord of Pain by user1039307

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug and burn strategy led by The Lord of Pain. The main plan turns every game action into painful damage for your opponents. By casting the commander on turn 4 and following up with damage multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Dictate of the Twin Gods, routine spellcasts deal crushing blows. Opponents cannot gain life to buffer their totals, making every point of damage stick. Complementary punishers like Spiteful Visions, Razorkin Needlehead, and Rug of Smothering penalize card draw and spell-slinging. In addition to incremental burn, the deck includes a game-ending two-card combo with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to instantly drain the entire table. The deck plays solid removal and asymmetric disruption like Blood Moon, though it remains exposed to opposing sweepers due to limited defensive protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Enraged Flamecaster
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Illicit Shipment
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Let's Play a Game
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Mortars
  • 1 Molten Collapse
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Obosh, the Preypiercer
  • 1 Potioner's Trove
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Ruinous Rampage
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Sarevok's Tome
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Servant of the Stinger
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Young Pyromancer