Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Aatchik, Emerald Radian Commander Deck
The deck mills its own library aggressively to fill the graveyard with creatures and artifacts, then leverages Aatchik, Emerald Radian's enter-the-battlefield trigger to flood the board with Insect tokens. Those tokens are then sacrificed or killed off to drain each opponent through Aatchik's death trigger, which is amplified by additional death-trigger payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Sacrifice outlets, recursive threats, and token doublers sustain the engine, winning through accumulated life loss as the deck repeatedly generates and destroys waves of insects.
Decklist
- Command Tower
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Grapple with the Past
- Jungle Hollow
- Rampant Growth
- Rogue's Passage
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Temple of Malady
- Village Rites
- Evolving Wilds
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Cultivate
- Exotic Orchard
- Bojuka Bog
- Viscera Seer
- Crawling Sensation
- Dakmor Salvage
- Eternal Witness
- Satyr Wayfinder
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Altar of Dementia
- Carrion Feeder
- Arcane Signet
- Grisly Salvage
- Hornet Queen
- Nyx Weaver
- Scute Mob
- Skull Prophet
- Blood Artist
- Golgari Signet
- Myriad Landscape
- Zulaport Cutthroat
- Sol Ring
- World Shaper
- Path of Ancestry
- Woodland Chasm
- Dread Return
- Necroblossom Snarl
- Plumb the Forbidden
- Blex, Vexing Pest
- Hornet Nest
- Tainted Wood
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
- Darkmoss Bridge
- Old Stickfingers
- Old Rutstein
- Moldgraf Millipede
- Crawling Infestation
- Scute Swarm
- Haywire Mite
- Woodland Cemetery
- Mirkwood Bats
- Rise of the Witch-king
- Matzalantli, the Great Door
- Deadly Dispute
- Aftermath Analyst
- Viridescent Bog
- Festering Gulch
- Corrupted Conviction
- Perpetual Timepiece
- Wight of the Reliquary
- Grist, Voracious Larva
- The Hunger Tide Rises
- Talisman of Resilience
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Llanowar Elves
- Huskburster Swarm
- Moldervine Reclamation
- Golgari Grave-Troll
- The Swarmweaver
- Hedge Shredder
- Tree of Tales
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Llanowar Wastes
- Fumulus, the Infestation
- Hermit Druid
- Second Harvest
- Molt Tender
- Twilight Mire
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
- Umbral Collar Zealot
- Seedship Broodtender
- Icetill Explorer
- 8× Forest
- 6× Swamp