The Great Goblin by user1550487

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Goblin/Orc aristocrats-and-token deck built squarely around The Great Goblin. The commander turns every counter event - +1/+1 counters, -1/-1 "blight," amass, token counters - into a 2-damage ping, and every Goblin/Orc death into exile-based impulse card advantage. The deck wins by drowning the table in tokens: Krenko, Mob Boss and Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin build exponential boards, while Impact Tremors, Pashalik Mons, Boggart Cursecrafter, Boggart Mischief, and Mount Doom convert those boards into table-wide drain. Collective Inferno doubles Goblin-sourced damage for the finish, and Bolas's Citadel plus Bloodline Bidding supply top-deck reach and late-game rebuild. There is no compact infinite combo; instead the deck grinds through life totals from multiple angles before closing with a massive token/drain turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bogslither's Embrace
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Burning Curiosity
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Negotiation
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gristle Glutton
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mad Auntie
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Midnight Banshee
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Sinister Gnarlbark
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stadium Headliner
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Warren Torchmaster