Hi and welcome to my Commander build for Chainer, Nightmare Adept.

This is supposed to be a focused to optimised deck on a power level around 7 out of 10. It is meant to be played in a mixed environment at my LGS with a shuffled group of experienced and new players and to provide a fun game for everyone.

The deck strategy is to generate early value by ramping fast and either cheating creatures into play by reanimating them, or by recasting them over and over again using Chainer’s Ability. We really want to start building pressure fast, since we are not equipped to have a great late game, Rakdos just lacks consistent draw for that. That’s why we want to take over in the Mid-Game, by using our wide threat pack to dominate the board and keeping our opponents early threats in check. We want to be really aggressive in doing so, even if we suffer some losses. We are likely able to recast or replace our threats from the graveyard, but we will never keep up, once our opponents get their blue or green value machines going. Once we established a dominating early board state, we aim to take out our opponents one by one, starting with the most controlling player. We also might get lucky and stumble over one of our two combos to take out the whole table, but we should not rely on that.

The challenge I gave myself for this deck was to build a lower powered and less optimized deck as usual for me. I could however, not keep myself from including Worldgorger Dragon into this deck, because it is one of the Rakdos reanimator defining combos for me. But I really tried to focus on the aggro playstyle. All in all I am very happy with how this build turned out.

I hope you like the list and find it useful for your own builds. Maybe it even inspires you to try out your own version of a Chainer, Nightmare Adept Commander deck. If so, please leave me a link.

If you got ideas for my deck please feel free to write a comment. Every opinion and every piece of critique is welcome. Especially if you are missing some cards in my build you think are a must run for this deck.

Thanks for your time and game on…

Gobbo

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60% Casual

40% Competitive

Revision 6 See all

(3 years ago)

+1 Bloodstained Mire main
-1 Temple of Malice main
Date added 3 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

8 - 0 Mythic Rares

44 - 0 Rares

26 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.38
Tokens Construct 6/12 C, Copy Clone, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders Gobbo's Commander Decks
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