The Last Ride: Self Harm Control by Norinscary

Format: Commander

Commander: The Last Ride

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 68

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed Mono-Black Turbo Storm deck built around life-as-a-resource engines. The commander, The Last Ride, costs only one black mana, immediately enabling free commander-dependent spells like Deadly Rollick and serving as sacrifice fodder for Beseech the Mirror. The deck accelerates rapidly through black rituals (Dark Ritual, Bubbling Muck), fast artifact mana (Mana Vault, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal), and powerful lands like Ancient Tomb and Cabal Coffers. Its primary route to victory utilizes high-impact engines such as Bolas's Citadel, Peer into the Abyss, Necropotence, and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth to dig through the library and assemble Sensei's Divining Top and Aetherflux Reservoir. Once assembled, it generates arbitrary life and eliminates the entire table with repeated 50-damage activations on Turn 4. Potent stax and hate pieces like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters slow down opposing strategies while the deck prepares its decisive combo turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Last Ride
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Withering Torment