bhaal

Format: Commander

Commander: Bhaal, Lord of Murder

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Jund deck is an aristocrats combo strategy led by Bhaal, Lord of Murder that blends forced combat control with infinite persist loops. The primary game plan seeks to assemble a three-piece engine consisting of a persist creature like Murderous Redcap or Putrid Goblin, a counter-negating permanent such as Grumgully, the Generous or Rhythm of the Wild, and a free sacrifice outlet like Goblin Bombardment or Altar of Dementia. When a persist creature dies and returns with a -1/-1 counter, the counter-canceling effect places a +1/+1 counter on it, which annihilates the -1/-1 counter via state-based actions. This allows infinite sacrifice triggers that immediately finish the table through direct damage or library milling. While assembling this win condition, the deck leverages goad effects from Bhaal, Lord of Murder, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Disrupt Decorum to force opponents to attack each other, whittling down enemy life totals and buying valuable turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aerie Ouphes
• 1 Agitator Ant
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bhaal, Lord of Murder
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Bothersome Quasit
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cauldron of Souls
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Coronation of Chaos
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Costly Plunder
• 1 Cult Conscript
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkmoss Bridge
• 1 Dawntreader Elk
• 1 Defense of the Heart
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 4 Forest
• 1 Furystoke Giant
• 1 Generous Patron
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Grumgully, the Generous
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hot Pursuit
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kazandu Refuge
• 1 Lesser Masticore
• 1 Lingering Tormentor
• 1 Mass Hysteria
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Murderous Redcap
• 1 Nasty End
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Parasitic Impetus
• 1 Persistent Constrictor
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Puppeteer Clique
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Rendclaw Trow
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
• 1 Riveteers Overlook
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Scuzzback Marauders
• 1 Shiny Impetus
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Strangled Cemetery
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Thermopod
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Threats Undetected
• 1 Thunderblust
• 1 Time of Need
• 1 Twisted Landscape
• 1 Vengeful Ancestor
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
• 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator