Through the Fire and Flames by scoopman

Format: Commander

Commander: Rivaz of the Claw

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Dragon-reanimator tribal deck helmed by Rivaz of the Claw, built around a simple loop: fill the graveyard with Dragons, then cheat them onto the battlefield far ahead of curve. Rivaz of the Claw is the engine - he taps for two Dragon-only mana and lets you cast one Dragon from the graveyard each turn, effectively turning your bin into a second hand. The deck supports this with a dense recursion package (Reanimate, Victimize, Living Death, Haunting Voyage, Bladewing the Risen, Haven of the Spirit Dragon) and a deep well of discard/looting to stock the yard (Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion, Entomb, Buried Alive). The win is overwhelming combat: extra combats from Scourge of the Throne, token swarms from Utvara Hellkite and Lathliss, Dragon Queen, damage doubling from Twinflame Tyrant, and pings from Dragon Tempest, Scourge of Valkas, and Terror of the Peaks. It is a fast, linear, all-in beatdown deck with no stack interaction and no protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1 Balefire Dragon
• 1 Bladewing the Risen
• 1 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
• 1 Boneyard Scourge
• 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
• 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cathartic Reunion
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Corroding Dragonstorm
• 1 Crux of Fate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Descendants' Fury
• 1 Desolation of Smaug
• 1 Dracogenesis
• 1 Dragon Tempest
• 1 Dragon's Hoard
• 1 Dragonlord's Servant
• 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Haunting Voyage
• 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Immersturm Predator
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Mox Jasper
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ran and Shaw
• 1 Raucous Theater
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rivaz of the Claw
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sarkhan's Triumph
• 1 Scourge of Valkas
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stormscale Scion
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terror of Mount Velus
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Thundermane Dragon
• 1 Twilight Diviner
• 1 Twinflame Tyrant
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Utvara Hellkite
• 1 Victimize