Arena of the damned by user5142196

Format: Commander

Creator: user5142196

Commander: Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is piloted by Glarb, Calamity's Augur, acting as a card-advantage and deck-filtering engine from the command zone. The deck leverages an efficient green ramp package to quickly accelerate into midgame threats and value engines such as Rhystic Study and Sylvan Library. While it possesses alternate combat pressure and token generation via Avenger of Zendikar and Scute Swarm, its primary objective is assembling an infinite life-drain loop utilizing Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror combined with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Dina, Soul Steeper, Enduring Tenacity, or Sanguine Bond. Backed by a flexible suite of Sultai interaction including Fierce Guardianship, Assassin's Trophy, and Cyclonic Rift, the deck controls the pace of play until it can safely resolve its combo pieces. Glarb ensures continuous land drops and filters away irrelevant cards, creating high operational consistency across the midgame.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kaito Shizuki
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome