roulette by RareLuke

Format: Commander

Commander: Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Jund engine built around Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire and an all-permanent construction supporting a single game-winning sorcery: Primal Surge. The deck leverages dense 1-mana and 2-mana acceleration alongside redundant haste enablers like Rhythm of the Wild and Lightning Greaves to deploy Vaevictis on Turn 4 or 5 and attack immediately. Topdeck manipulation tools such as Sensei's Divining Top and Mirri's Guile ensure that each attack trigger sacrifices a low-value token or land to cheat an overwhelming bomb—such as Avenger of Zendikar, Etali, Primal Storm, or Bolas's Citadel—onto the battlefield while eroding opposing boards. If the game extends, casting Primal Surge drops the entire remaining permanent library onto the battlefield with haste, overwhelming the table in a single combat step or via infinite persist damage with Grumgully, the Generous and Murderous Redcap.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Bloodsworn Steward
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Cindervines
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Deathbringer Thoctar
• 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
• 1 Domri, Chaos Bringer
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Dragon Breath
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Emerald Medallion
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 6 Forest
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Grumgully, the Generous
• 1 Hanweir Battlements
• 1 Heaped Harvest
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Instill Energy
• 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lurking Predators
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mirri's Guile
• 1 Mitotic Slime
• 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Orcish Lumberjack
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pernicious Deed
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Poison-Tip Archer
• 1 Primal Surge
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of the Animist
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Tinder Wall
• 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Verdant Force
• 1 Vexing Shusher
• 1 Viridian Revel
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 1 Wand of Wonder
• 1 Wild Evocation
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Xira, the Golden Sting