BBEG by Mattrer

Format: Commander

Creator: Mattrer

Commander: The Valeyard

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck leverages The Valeyard to double the impact of villainous choices and voting spells. Supported by a dependable suite of 2-CMC mana artifacts and cost-reducing creatures, the deck accelerates into its commander and begins grinding down opposing resources. Spells like Prisoner's Dilemma, Bite of the Black Rose, and Capital Punishment force opponents into devastating lose-lose scenarios, stripping their hands and creature boards while advancing your own. The primary win route combines massive burn chunks from doubled choices with combat pressure from menace Dalek and Cybermen artifact tokens created by Davros, Dalek Creator, The Dalek Emperor, and Genesis of the Daleks. While the strategy generates steady card advantage and asymmetric attrition, it relies on sorcery-speed resolution and lacks infinite combos, making disciplined sequencing and well-timed countermagic crucial to navigating opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bite of the Black Rose
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Capital Punishment
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coercive Portal
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cult of Skaro
  • 1 Cyberman Patrol
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Dalek Drone
  • 1 Dalek Squadron
  • 1 Damocles Base, Sword of Kang
  • 1 Davros, Dalek Creator
  • 1 Death in Heaven
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Exterminate!
  • 1 Fateful Tempest
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Genesis of the Daleks
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Great Intelligence's Plan
  • 1 Grudge Keeper
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hunted by The Family
  • 1 Illusion of Choice
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Missy
  • 1 Mob Verdict
  • 1 Model of Unity
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Split Decision
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sycorax Commander
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tempt with Mayhem
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Dalek Emperor
  • 1 The Master, Gallifrey's End
  • 1 The Valeyard
  • 1 This Is How It Ends
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trap the Trespassers
  • 1 Truth or Consequences
  • 1 Tyrant's Choice
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Xander's Lounge