good ragavan by user2400607

Format: Commander

Commander: Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Mono-Red Voltron deck uses Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer as a fast, low-cost engine to accelerate mana and generate early card advantage. Supported by high-density 0-mana and 1-mana acceleration, the deck deploys Ragavan on Turn 1 and equips powerful artifacts by Turn 3. The strategy centers around an extensive suite of Equipment, most notably all ten Swords of X and Y, Commander's Plate, and The Reaver Cleaver. These tools grant potent color protections, unblockability, and compounding combat damage triggers. Once established, the deck scales its threat level through damage doublers like Furnace of Rath and Twinflame Tyrant, or executes an infinite combat loop using Aggravated Assault alongside Sword of Feast and Famine. While the deck possesses formidable permanent-based protection against targeted spot removal, it deliberately foregoes reactive instant-speed interaction and stax pieces in favor of aggressive offensive pressure, closing out games by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Battlemage's Bracers
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Braid of Fire
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Coral Sword
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Fervent Mastery
  • 1 Furnace of Rath
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Hammerheim
  • 1 Hoarding Dragon
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Kratos, God of War
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 26 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Prowler's Helm
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Sword of Once and Future
  • 1 Sword of Sinew and Steel
  • 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
  • 1 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Sword of Wealth and Power
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Vision and Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak