Living Gold by Slayus

Format: Commander

Commander: Vihaan, Goldwaker

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Mardu aggro-aristocrats engine led by Vihaan, Goldwaker. The primary plan leverages low-cost ramp and outlaw engines to stockpile Treasure tokens during the early turns. On Turn 4, Vihaan transforms these hoardings into 3/3 Construct Assassin creatures granted vigilance and haste, turning mana acceleration directly into combat pressure. Because the animated tokens retain vigilance, they can attack for substantial damage before tapping post-combat to cast follow-up threats or hold up interaction. The deck compounds this board presence using outlaw damage amplifiers like Arno Dorian and Olivia, Opulent Outlaw, while converting combat attrition and spent Treasures into direct life drain through aristocrats like Mayhem Devil, Disciple of the Vault, and Blood Artist. Secondary win conditions include an alternate win via Revel in Riches, a game-ending asymmetric wipe in Ruinous Ultimatum, and an infinite mana engine with Mayhem Devil and Smaug the Impenetrable.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arno Dorian
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Interceptor, Shadow's Hound
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rankle and Torbran
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rose Room Treasurer
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swashbuckler Extraordinaire
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vihaan, Goldwaker
  • 1 Wrath of God