Rivaz of the Claw by JKobe915

Format: Commander

Commander: Rivaz of the Claw

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Dragon Tribal and Reanimator strategy led by Rivaz of the Claw. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana and filling the graveyard with high-cost Dragons during the opening turns using rummage and looting effects. Rivaz enters on turn 3 to supply two mana specifically for Dragons while unlocking the ability to cast one Dragon from the graveyard each turn. Starting on turn 4, the deck deploys heavy airborne threats like Lathliss, Dragon Queen, Scourge of Valkas, and Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest, quickly establishing an aggressive aerial clock. Direct burn triggers from Dragon Tempest and combat amplifiers like Crucible of Fire accelerate damage against the table. If opponents manage to remove key threats, mass reanimation spells such as Living Death and Patriarch's Bidding restore the entire Dragon army at once, closing out the game around turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Backdraft Hellkite
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boneyard Scourge
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Descendants' Fury
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fang, Roku's Companion
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nogi, Draco-Zealot
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ran and Shaw
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon