Thanos by user6053587

Format: Commander

Commander: Thanos, the Mad Titan

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Thanos, the Mad Titan to command all five colors, functioning as a hybrid aristocrats control and combo strategy. The primary win condition revolves around assembling a two-card infinite life drain loop between a gain-on-loss effect (Exquisite Blood, Bloodthirsty Conqueror) and a loss-on-gain effect (Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, Marauding Blight-Priest). The mana base is supported by green ramp spells and low-cost mana rocks, allowing the deck to operate consistently ahead of curve. Thanos provides a powerful emergency asymmetric board wipe through his power-up mechanic, destroying odd or even converted mana cost threats. If the primary combo is disrupted, the deck pivots into an asymmetric token generation and group drain plan powered by Tombstone Stairwell, Massacre Wurm, and aristocrat death triggers. A suite of free interaction and countermagic defends critical combo turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Alliance of Arms
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hunted Phantasm
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Slaughter Specialist
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Thanos, the Mad Titan
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vicious Shadows
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 2 Wastes
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat