Chainer Reimagined by brad471

Format: Commander

Commander: Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Chainer, Nightmare Adept deck operates as an explosive Rakdos reanimator strategy designed to cheat massive threats into play ahead of curve and grind down the table through asymmetric attrition. The early turns prioritize stocking the graveyard using efficient discard outlets like Faithless Looting, self-mill engines such as Stitcher's Supplier, and direct tutoring via Entomb. By Turn 3 or 4, the deck leverages low-cost reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Persist to deploy game-dominating creatures including Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. Chainer, Nightmare Adept functions as a repeatable discard outlet that grants haste to any creature cast from the graveyard, applying immediate combat pressure. The deck controls the board with Archfiend of Depravity, Massacre Wurm, and Sheoldred, Whispering One, before sealing the game with mass-reanimation sweeps like Living Death and Balthor the Defiled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician