Rankle, Goatherder

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

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Creature (20)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Auntie's Snitch
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stinkdrinker Bandit

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Noggin Whack
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind

Instant (3)

• 1x Dark Withering
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Thrilling Encore

Artifact (18)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Hot Soup
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Land (38)

• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 33x Swamp

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Greed
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Sadistic Glee
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Waste Not

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Creature (9)

• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Shade's Form

Instant (1)

• 1x Imp's Mischief

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Biting Rain

Artifact (3)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Skullclamp

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I've been thinking about getting into commander for a while, looking around at different cards and no commanders really jumped out at me. But when Rankle came out, I knew I really wanted to build a deck around him, if only because I love him as a concept so much. As there aren't many builds out for him yet, I decided to go ahead and try to build a deck of my own.

I decided to focus on a mixture of two things - protecting Rankle, ensuring he can get in every turn, and discard. I want to at least have the choice of attacking with him every turn, where possible, though I know that may be tough in multiplayer. Discard is one of my favorite themes, so I do want to have a decent chunk of the deck dedicated to it no matter what changes I make down the road. That being said, I am not sure if the Megrim-style effects are a good enough win-con or if I should just use discard as removal of sorts. If those effects turn out to not be very effective, I may lean into reanimator instead, throwing in a Gonti, Lord of Luxury as well. Ultimately, I'm looking to play more of a casual deck, though I'm not opposed to playing powerful cards if they don't stop my fellow players from actually playing.

I also wanted to play a little bit into the Rogue theme, though I don't want to go full-on tribal. I'm debating whether going into that is just diluting things, and I should just go into a Voltron-style deck or Discard/Reanimator as previously mentioned. I like it for flavor, but I will have to see if it messes with the consistency enough that I come not to enjoy running those cards.

Some of the cards may look like weird fits, but I was wanting to run certain cards for flavor, so I don't plan on taking them out anytime soon. Those cards are Bag of Holding , Hot Soup , Nezumi Shortfang , Noggin Whack , Null Brooch , Revel in Riches , Springjack Pasture , and Trading Post .

If you have any tips, in particular about the ratio of cards (for example, as it's my first deck, I'm not sure if I have enough ramp/mana rocks) please feel free to leave them in the comments below! While I don't plan on making a strictly cEDH deck, I do look forward to optimizing the deck as time goes on as I see it growing into a pet deck of mine.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Goat 0/1 W, Serf 0/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B