Ragost, Deft Gastronaut by jvkeruss

Format: Commander

Commander: Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Boros artifact aristocrats deck is piloted by Ragost, Deft Gastronaut, turning every artifact into a Food and converting sacrifices into direct table-wide burn. The primary game plan develops on-curve artifact acceleration, deploys token generators like Genesis Chamber, Legion Extruder, and Nuka-Cola Vending Machine, and stacks burn amplifiers such as Solphim, Mayhem Dominus and Torbran, Thane of Red Fell. On Turn 6, the deck initiates critical pressure by sacrificing and recurring artifact tokens, dealing heavy group-slug damage that closes out the game on Turn 7. Secondary routes leverage infinite colorless mana via Basalt Monolith and Zirda, the Dawnwaker or Rings of Brighthearth to draw the library with Staff of Domination and machine-gun opponents with Makeshift Munitions. While resilient in reassembling engines through graveyard recursion, the deck is vulnerable to artifact sweepers and lacks instant-speed stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asgardian Citadel
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claws of Gix
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dragonspark Reactor
  • 1 Dross Scorpion
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foundry Helix
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 HYDRA Assault Robot
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hedron Detonator
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Legion Extruder
  • 1 Makeshift Munitions
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Phyrexia's Core
  • 1 Pia's Revolution
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Quicksmith Genius
  • 1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
  • 1 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Retrofitter Foundry
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrap Welder
  • 1 Slobad, Iron Goblin
  • 1 Snowslope Hunter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Sun Droplet
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thopter Shop
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Weapons Manufacturing
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker