Troublemakers by wbirdie1

Format: Commander

Commander: Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck uses Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers to cheat massive, high-impact creatures directly onto the battlefield attacking. The game plan focuses on rapid early mana acceleration through low-cost land search spells and rituals. Reaching seven mana on Turn 4 or 5 lets you cast the commander, which has haste and immediately attacks. The attack trigger reveals cards until hitting one of 23 powerful creatures, dropping threats like Blightsteel Colossus, Etali, Primal Conqueror, or Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus right into combat. Additional combat enablers like Port Razer, Bloodthirster, and Aggravated Assault chain multiple combat steps and attack triggers in a single turn. The deck protects its explosive turns with efficient interaction such as Deflecting Swat, Bolt Bend, and Heroic Intervention. While vulnerable to instant removal at combat onset and mass exile sweepers, its dense threat suite and redundant ramp provide rapid recovery and immense combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination, World Ravager
  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Avatar Roku, Firebender
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benefactor's Draught
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
  • 1 Fog
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulk, Always Angry
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Raphael, Tag Team Tough
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Roxanne, Starfall Savant
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shapers' Sanctuary
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tangle
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 World at War
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus