Olivia, Crimson Bride by RelicofDoom

Format: Commander

Commander: Olivia, Crimson Bride

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Reanimator strategy led by Olivia, Crimson Bride that cheats devastating high-mana creatures onto the battlefield ahead of schedule. The game plan focuses on stocking the graveyard during the early turns with tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive, or discard outlets like Anje Falkenrath and Blood tokens. Once a high-impact threat such as Archon of Cruelty, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, or Terror of the Peaks is in the graveyard, casting Olivia on Turn 5 gives immediate value. Because Olivia has haste, she attacks the turn she enters, returning the threat directly to combat tapped and attacking. From this dominant board state, the deck quickly closes the game through overwhelming flying damage, crushing asymmetric attrition, or a deterministic two-card infinite combo between Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Bloodthirsty Conqueror. While vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard exile and targeted removal on Olivia, the deck boasts high tutor density and independent reanimation spells to maintain relentless pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anje Falkenrath
  • 1 Anje, Maid of Dishonor
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
  • 1 Jaws, Relentless Predator
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Kamber, the Plunderer
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Olivia Voldaren
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan