The Great Goblin by NathanL

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Goblin/Orc/Army-counter machine gun helmed by The Great Goblin, who converts every counter placed on your Goblins, Orcs, or Armies into 2 damage to any opponent, and every such creature's death into impulse card advantage. The deck leans heavily on the amass mechanic: roughly eighteen counter-placing effects grow a single Army while the commander's first ability turns each event into burn, so that Army is simultaneously a growing clock and a walking machine gun. The primary kill is an infinite persist loop - First Day of Class or Metallic Mimic resetting Putrid Goblin/Murderous Redcap through a sacrifice outlet - with Goblin Bombardment, Pashalik Mons, or the commander himself as payoffs. A go-wide double-Krenko swarm, Underworld Breach recursion, and the cast-from-exile engine (Nico Minoru, Runaway, Party Thrasher) back the combo and close games the loop can't reach.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Harbinger
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feast on the Fallen
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nico Minoru, Runaway
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills