Dogsmasher by user1977286

Format: Commander

Commander: Vial Smasher the Fierce and Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

An aggressive legendary-midrange deck built around the Yoshimaru/Vial Smasher partner pair. Yoshimaru grows every time another legendary permanent enters, so the deck floods the board with legendary creatures, planeswalkers, equipment, and lands. Vial Smasher converts the first (usually highest-mana) spell each turn into direct damage, acting as reach and a clock. Secondary paths are pain-draw synergies (Stormfist Crusader, Kederekt Parasite, Fate Unraveler, Valgavoth) and asymmetry payoffs (Ruinous Ultimatum, Massacre Wurm, Zariel's extra-combat emblem). The Seriema is the closest thing to a hidden commander: it tutors a legendary, grows Yoshimaru, and can become a 7+ flyer. The deck closes via combat plus Vial triggers, with recursion to grind through wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza
• 1 Adamant Will
• 1 Ares, God of War
• 1 Astrid Peth
• 1 Banishing Light
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Black Widow, Double Agent
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Brave Brawler
• 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Crude Bent Blade
• 1 Curious Farm Animals
• 1 Dark Fortress
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Dawnstrike Vanguard
• 1 Disenchant
• 1 Duty Beyond Death
• 1 Erode
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Fear of Burning Alive
• 1 Gisa's Favorite Shovel
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Gollum the Abandoned
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Hell's Kitchen
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Leechridden Swamp
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Liliana, Death Mage
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Night Nurse, Healer of Heroes
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Norn's Choirmaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 8 Plains
• 1 Political Triumph
• 1 Pull from the Grave
• 1 Raphael, Most Attitude
• 1 Raphael, Tough Turtle
• 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
• 1 Reverent Howl
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spider-Punk
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Sycorax Commander
• 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
• 1 Take Up the Shield
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
• 1 The Seriema
• 1 Thorin's Last Stand
• 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
• 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
• 1 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
• 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus