Rowan by LysTheFox

Format: Commander

Commander: Rowan, Scion of War

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Rakdos combo-burn strategy centered around Rowan, Scion of War. The primary plan weaponizes life loss to generate immense generic mana cost reduction for black and red spells. By using self-damaging enablers such as Wall of Blood, Blood Celebrant, Plunge into Darkness, or pain draw spells, the pilot reduces the cost of massive X-cost finishers by 20 to 30 mana on Turn 4. A single cast of Crackle with Power, Torment of Hailfire, or Exsanguinate wipes out all three opponents in a single turn. Burst draw spells like Peer into the Abyss and Blood for the Blood God! ensure that the pilot can dig through dozens of cards if an immediate kill is not in hand. Backup lines utilizing Bolas's Citadel, K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, and Heartless Hidetsugu ensure high resilience if Rowan is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Battle at the Bridge
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Lava
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cut // Ribbons
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Erebos's Intervention
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Pact Weapon
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Repay in Kind
  • 1 Rowan's Grim Search
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Punk
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Withering Torment