Rowan by phntmthf

Format: Commander

Commander: Rowan, Scion of War

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Rakdos life-loss combo and burn strategy commanded by Rowan, Scion of War. The primary game plan converts life total into immense generic mana discounts. By deploying Rowan on Turn 3 and utilizing high-volume life-payment enablers such as Wall of Blood, Treasonous Ogre, Immolating Souleater, or Fire Covenant on Turn 4, the deck reduces the generic mana costs of black and red spells by 20 to 35 mana. This reduction fuels devastating X-cost finishers, including Crackle with Power, Torment of Hailfire, and Exsanguinate, or massive card-draw engines like Peer into the Abyss and Necropotence that storm through the 99 into a same-turn table kill. Untap spells like Claim the Firstborn and Tentative Connection allow Rowan's cost reduction to stack to astronomical levels. While highly lethal and redundant, the plan is vulnerable to instant-speed removal targeting Rowan after life is paid.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Chef's Kiss
  • 1 Claim the Firstborn
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Commune with Lava
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crackling Spellslinger
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fall of the Titans
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greven, Predator Captain
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Ignite the Future
  • 1 Immolating Souleater
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Moltensteel Dragon
  • 1 Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pact Weapon
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Priest of Urabrask
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Rowan's Grim Search
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Storm King's Thunder
  • 1 Swallowing Plague
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Tavern Swindler
  • 1 Tentative Connection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traitorous Greed
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wrangle
  • 1 Zenith Festival