Rocco's Tempting Life by user8006262

Format: Commander

Commander: Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic exhibition build designed around a high-risk, high-reward trap strategy. Commanded by Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer, the deck accelerates early mana to cast Rocco on Turn 4 for X=2, tutoring Tempting Wurm directly onto the battlefield. This forces all opponents to dump their hands of creatures, artifacts, enchantments, and lands. The deck then protects itself from the resulting lethal threat through pillowfort taxes like Ghostly Prison and Windborn Muse, damage negation like Deflecting Palm, and repeatable or instant fogs like Spore Frog and Teferi's Protection. Once opponents tap out or commit their threats, the deck resolves explosive mana via Mana Geyser and casts mass theft sorceries like Insurrection, Mob Rule, or Call for Aid, turning the opponents' massive armies against them for a sudden, lethal table elimination.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Call for Aid
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Debt of Loyalty
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Divine Gambit
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firbolg Flutist
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Fugue
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Hate Mirage
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mass Mutiny
  • 1 Master Warcraft
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Naya Charm
  • 1 Oblation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Shepherd of the Flock // Usher to Safety
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snare
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonecloaker
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Take the Bait
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tempting Wurm
  • 1 Thornscape Familiar
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Wheel of Fate
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Word of Seizing
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts