Viconia, Cycling Reanimate by Fabr0x

Format: Commander

Commander: Viconia, Drow Apostate and Tavern Brawler

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Cycling and Reanimation strategy helmed by Viconia, Drow Apostate and Tavern Brawler. It leverages cycling and discard mechanics to fill the graveyard rapidly with high-impact creatures while digging toward critical pieces. The early game focuses on deployment of 2-mana mana rocks and cycling cards like Troll of Khazad-dûm and Oliphaunt to fix colors and stock the yard. Once the commander pair is established by turn 4, Tavern Brawler provides steady impulse card advantage and offensive power, while Viconia recurrs random threats. The primary route to victory is resolving Living Death or Rise of the Dark Realms to assemble a lethal army alongside haste enablers like Rising of the Day or Urabrask the Hidden. Alternatively, the deck can burn out opponents through incremental discard triggers from Syr Konrad, the Grim, Brallin, Skyshark Rider, and Glint-Horn Buccaneer.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Barren Moor
• 1 Bedhead Beastie
• 1 Bitter Reunion
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blasted Landscape
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bone Harvest
• 1 Brallin, Skyshark Rider
• 1 Capital City
• 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1 Chitin Gravestalker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cool but Rude
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Cryptcaller Chariot
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drannith Stinger
• 1 Dying to Serve
• 1 Expunge
• 1 Feldon of the Third Path
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fluctuator
• 1 Footbottom Feast
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1 Granitic Titan
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Gravepurge
• 1 Green Goblin, Revenant
• 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 1 Lava Serpent
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Magmakin Artillerist
• 1 Melded Moxite
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Oliphaunt
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Polluted Mire
• 1 Pyretic Rebirth
• 1 Quakefoot Cyclops
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rising of the Day
• 1 Rooting Moloch
• 1 Ruin Grinder
• 1 Scion of Darkness
• 1 Shefet Archfiend
• 1 Shredded Sails
• 1 Smoldering Crater
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tavern Brawler
• 1 Tectonic Reformation
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Undertaker
• 1 Unpredictable Cyclone
• 1 Urabrask the Hidden
• 1 Veronica, Dissident Scribe
• 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1 Vile Manifestation
• 1 Wander in Death
• 1 War Room
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Wreck Remover