The Great Goblin Horde by imeiyou

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a hyper-efficient Rakdos Goblin combo deck helmed by The Great Goblin. The plan floods the board with cheap Goblins, then converts death triggers, +1/+1 counters, and ETBs into lethal damage via layered engines. The commander amplifies the strategy by pinging opponents whenever counters land on Goblins/Orcs/Armies and impulse-drawing off every tribal death. Primary wins are infinite persist loops (Putrid Goblin/Murderous Redcap + sac outlets + counter enablers), token-mana storms (Krenko, Mob Boss + Mana Echoes), and classic storm lines (Underworld Breach, Ad Nauseam, Yawgmoth's Will). Secondary paths include Purphoros, God of the Forge/Impact Tremors go-wide burn and All Will Be One turning every counter into table-wide damage. Dense rituals, zero-mana rocks, and tribal tutors make the deck explosively consistent at cEDH pace.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Harbinger
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Bushwhacker
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Lackey
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Legion Loyalist
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Instigator
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will