The Great Goblin by tonyfalkor

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin Aristocrats and direct-burn strategy led by The Great Goblin. The commander turns counter placement on Goblins, Orcs, and Armies into 2-damage burn triggers while converting creature deaths into impulse card draw. The early game establishes mana and token engines using Skirk Prospector, Warren Soultrader, and Metallic Mimic. By turns 4 and 5, explosive generators like Krenko, Mob Boss and General Kreat, the Boltbringer flood the battlefield. The deck closes games around turn 7 through wide combat swings and sacrifice outlets such as Goblin Bombardment, Pashalik Mons, and Sling-Gang Lieutenant, which trigger rapid burn loops. It features high card flow and functional redundancy, though it remains vulnerable to exile-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Auntie's Hovel
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Black Sun's Zenith
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Boggart Mischief
• 1 Boggart Shenanigans
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolg's Company
• 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
• 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
• 1 Brightstone Ritual
• 1 City on Fire
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Defile
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eclipsed Boggart
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Empty the Warrens
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Goblin Chieftain
• 1 Goblin Engineer
• 1 Goblin Matron
• 1 Goblin Recruiter
• 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1 Goblin Trashmaster
• 1 Goblin Warchief
• 1 Goblin-town
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Howlsquad Heavy
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Knucklebone Witch
• 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1 Mad Auntie
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 11 Mountain
• 1 Munitions Expert
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Pashalik Mons
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Searslicer Goblin
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Skirk Prospector
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Soul Immolation
• 1 Staff of Domination
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Taurean Mauler
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
• 1 Umbral Mantle
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Warren Soultrader