The Great Goblin by ImClutter

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos aristocrats and combo strategy built around The Great Goblin. The commander turns counter placement on Goblins, Orcs, and Armies into 2 direct damage per instance while turning creature deaths into continuous impulse card draw. The primary path to victory involves an infinite persist loop combining Putrid Goblin or Murderous Redcap with counter-reset engines like Metallic Mimic or Thran Vigil and a free sacrifice outlet such as Goblin Bombardment, Skirk Prospector, or Phyrexian Altar. Tutors like Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal, and Goblin Matron assemble the combo by Turn 5 for an immediate same-turn kill. A robust backup plan leverages mass token production via Krenko, Mob Boss, amass spells, and recursion spells like Bloodline Bidding to overwhelm the table with combat damage and aristocrat burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Boggart Birth Rite
• 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
• 1 Boggart Mischief
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bolg's Company
• 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
• 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Gnashing of Teeth
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Goblin Chieftain
• 1 Goblin Cratermaker
• 1 Goblin Matron
• 1 Goblin Plate Mail
• 1 Goblin Warchief
• 1 Goblin-town
• 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
• 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Grub's Command
• 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Misty Mountains Raider
• 1 Mordor Muster
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 15 Mountain
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• 1 Pashalik Mons
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Ragged Short Spear
• 1 Skirk Prospector
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 15 Swamp
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Ooze
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Thran Vigil
• 1 Tidings of War
• 1 Unbury
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Warren Soultrader