The Last Ride: Self Harm Control by Glooney

Format: Commander

Commander: The Last Ride

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This mono-black combo deck uses life as its primary resource to bypass mana constraints and assemble game-ending storm sequences. Piloted by The Last Ride, which serves as an inexpensive early drop and emergency card sink, the deck seeks to accelerate into explosive engines such as Bolas's Citadel, Peer into the Abyss, or Necropotence. Once an engine is established, the deck digs through its library to assemble Sensei's Divining Top and Aetherflux Reservoir, generating lethal life totals to eliminate all opponents in a single turn. Powerful black tutors and fast rituals ensure consistent assembly by Turn 4. However, the strategy carries inherent risks: aggressive life payments make the pilot vulnerable to direct damage, and mono-black's limited stack interaction leaves key artifacts open to disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repay in Kind
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Last Ride
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Withering Torment