Swiper by SC3PTR3

Format: Commander

Commander: The Infamous Cruelclaw

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Infamous Cruelclaw leads a Rakdos cheat-and-smash build. The primary plan is to connect with Cruelclaw as early as turn three, exile the first nonland card from the top of the library, and cast it by discarding a card instead of paying mana. This turns a 3/3 menace into a repeatable discount engine for Ulamog, Emrakul, Breach the Multiverse, and other high-cost spells. Secondary paths use Ilharg, Reanimate, and Laughing Jasper Flint to put creatures into play or cast from opponents' libraries, while treasure spells and medallions allow hardcasting later. Laughing Jasper Flint effectively serves as a hidden secondary commander, supplying continuous card advantage and theft. The deck wins through overwhelming attack steps, extra combat with Moraug, and Bahamut's global Mega Flare, rather than through infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barrow-Blade
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Calamity, Galloping Inferno
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lost Jitte
  • 1 Lotus Ring
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 18 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Overwhelming Forces
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Pyretic Rebirth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shadow of the Enemy
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble