The Great Goblin by chayde

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos Goblin aristocrats build led by The Great Goblin. The strategy focuses on flooding the battlefield with cheap Goblin tokens and converting creature deaths into card flow through the commander's impulse ability. It burns opponents whenever counters are placed on Goblins, Orcs, or Armies, rewarding mechanics like amass, mentor, and blight. The deck leverages sacrifice outlets like Skirk Prospector and Goblin Bombardment alongside drain payoffs like Pashalik Mons, Bastion of Remembrance, and Boggart Cursecrafter. It can win through explosive combat steps with Shared Animosity or through infinite persist loops using Putrid Goblin, First Day of Class, and any free sacrifice outlet. While vulnerable to heavy enchantment-based stax and exile sweepers, the deck recovers quickly by chaining impulse draws off dying creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dralnu's Crusade
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Gempalm Incinerator
  • 1 Goblin Banneret
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Burrows
  • 1 Goblin Bushwhacker
  • 1 Goblin Chainwhirler
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Piledriver
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goblin Ringleader
  • 1 Goblin Turncoat
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hobgoblin Bandit Lord
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Legion Loyalist
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Quest for the Goblin Lord
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Woe Strider