[4] Eshki

Format: Commander

Commander: Eshki, Temur's Roar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck leverages Eshki, Temur's Roar to convert undercosted, high-power creature spells into +1/+1 counters, card advantage, and global noncombat burn. By deploying 1–3 CMC creatures with 6+ power such as Phyrexian Dreadnought, Cosmic Larva, and Pugnacious Hammerskull, the deck bypasses typical creature drawbacks because Eshki's abilities trigger on cast. Pairing Eshki with Curiosity-style enchantments like Keen Sense and Tandem Lookout creates explosive card draw engines that refill the hand with more high-power threats. Mana generators such as Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Fanatic of Rhonas, and Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea provide massive mana bursts from high-power permanents. Free and 1-mana protection spells safeguard Eshki while Chandra's Incinerator converts noncombat burn into asymmetric board control. The deck rapidly scales Eshki's power to close out games through repeated table-wide burn triggers and trampling combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aluren
• 1 Anticausal Vestige
• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ball Lightning
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bristlebane Battler
• 1 Bygone Colossus
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chain of Vapor
• 1 Chandra's Incinerator
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmic Larva
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dragonfire Blade
• 1 Dreamtide Whale
• 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
• 1 Eternal Scourge
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Savagery
• 5 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Groundbreaker
• 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Ilysian Caryatid
• 1 Intruder Alarm
• 5 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Keen Sense
• 1 Mijae Djinn
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Obscuring Haze
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
• 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
• 1 Ravaging Riftwurm
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Relic Golem
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Slumbering Trudge
• 1 Smuggler's Surprise
• 1 Snake Umbra
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Squee, the Immortal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tandem Lookout
• 1 Tangle
• 1 Temur Battlecrier
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Vines of Vastwood
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Yavimaya Coast