Crazy? I was Crazy once! by Hafdal

Format: Commander

Commander: Wick, the Whorled Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck leverages Wick, the Whorled Mind at the helm of a Grixis Rat tribal and aristocrats shell. The strategy rapidly floods the battlefield with low-cost Rats and Rat-generating token engines like Lord Skitter, Sewer King, Chittering Witch, and Song of Totentanz. These entrances continuously grow Wick's Snail token into a massive single-target threat and sacrifice resource. Wick converts this accumulated power into asymmetric, table-wide direct damage and massive hand refuels for three mana. In parallel, pingers such as Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, and Mirkwood Bats drain opponents with every entering and dying token. Supported by high-tempo free interaction like Deflecting Swat, Fierce Guardianship, and Deadly Rollick, the deck protects its commander while applying lethal pressure across both combat and direct-damage axes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mad Ratter
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Ravenous Rats
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruthless Radrat
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tangled Colony
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vren, the Relentless
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wick, the Whorled Mind
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat