Monkey Business by Rand0mCat

Format: Commander

Commander: Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer leads an aggressive mono-red treasure and artifact strategy designed to seize early tempo and choke opposing resources. By deploying Ragavan on turn one, the deck generates fast mana and steals opposing cards to establish an overwhelming resource advantage. It rapidly scales artifact generation using force multipliers like Academy Manufactor and Xorn, while punishing traditional mana bases through cards like Manabarbs and Zo-Zu the Punisher. The primary path to victory leverages this massive artifact stockpile to trigger instant-win conditions like Hellkite Tyrant, burn the table with Smaug the Magnificent, or overwhelm opponents with unblockable, equipment-boosted combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Alchemist's Talent
• 1 Anger
• 1 Ankh of Mishra
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arena of Glory
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Break Through the Line
• 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Commander's Plate
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fireshrieker
• 1 From the Ashes
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Generous Plunderer
• 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
• 1 Goblin Engineer
• 1 Goblin Welder
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Guild Artisan
• 1 Hell to Pay
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Improvisation Capstone
• 1 Inspiring Statuary
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Knuckles the Echidna
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lizard Blades
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 20 Mountain
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Price of Glory
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Seize the Spoils
• 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sticky Fingers
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 Trailblazer's Boots
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Vaan, Street Thief
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1 War Room
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Xorn
• 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher