Old Rutstein by SashimiNinja

Format: Commander

Commander: Old Rutstein

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Golgari graveyard-landfall deck uses Old Rutstein to generate incremental value tokens and fuel the graveyard each turn. The strategy combines self-mill engines and sacrifice loops to assemble overwhelming mana and board presence. It leverages powerful recursion engines to retrieve lands and creatures repeatedly, locking down opposing boards using sacrifice edicts like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos. The primary paths to victory involve casting an entwined Tooth and Nail for Avenger of Zendikar and Craterhoof Behemoth, generating massive mana for a lethal Torment of Hailfire, or copying Dark Depths with Thespian's Stage for an early 20/20 indestructible Marit Lage token.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Old Rutstein
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper