Bladewing is back again, 2020->2026 AI revision by Hidewrath

Format: Commander

Commander: Bladewing the Risen

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Dragon reanimator deck commanded by Bladewing the Risen. The primary game plan is to fill the graveyard through looting effects like Faithless Looting and Tormenting Voice, then cheat enormous dragons onto the battlefield ahead of curve using a dense reanimation suite including Exhume, Victimize, and Dance of the Dead. Bladewing himself serves as a repeatable reanimation engine, returning a dragon from the graveyard on entry. The deck aims to overwhelm opponents with trampling flyers, drain triggers from Kokusho, the Evening Star, and incremental pings from Scourge of Valkas. Hellkite Charger offers potential for explosive extra combat turns, but assembling the required mana consistently is difficult. The deck lacks counterspells and meaningful protection, relying on speed and recursion to outmuscle the table before opposing interaction can take hold.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Backdraft Hellkite
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bitter Revelation
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bladewing's Thrall
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron Dance
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Ever After
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fearsome Awakening
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Moonlight Bargain
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Sarkhan the Masterless
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragonsoul
  • 1 Scourge of Kher Ridges
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stormbreath Dragon
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Torrent of Souls
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wild Guess
  • 1 Witchbane Orb
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zombify