Esika Gods by BlackMageEW

Format: Commander

Commander: Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color God-tribal build commanded by Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge. The core strategy revolves around ramping through turns 1 to 3 to cast The Prismatic Bridge on Turn 4. Starting on Turn 5, Bridge cheats a free legendary God or creature directly onto the battlefield every upkeep. As devotion accumulates across multiple colors, the deck's indestructible God enchantments animate into high-power creatures with complementary keywords, such as trample from Nylea, God of the Hunt, menace and damage prevention from Iroas, God of Victory, and power doubling from Xenagos, God of Revels or God-Eternal Rhonas. An alternative late-game bomb exists in The World Tree, which can put every God card in the library onto the battlefield at once. With built-in indestructible and self-recursion mechanics, the board is naturally resistant to standard sweepers, grinding down opponents across turns 6 to 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Pantheon
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Ephara, God of the Polis
  • 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
  • 1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jodah, the Unifier
  • 1 Karametra, God of Harvests
  • 1 Keranos, God of Storms
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kolvori, God of Kinship // The Ringhart Crest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Oketra the True
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zagoth Triome