Eshki Goes On an Adventure by BoreDum

Format: Commander

Creator: BoreDum

Commander: Eshki Dragonclaw

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur midrange stompy build centered on Eshki Dragonclaw. The strategy leverages the Adventure mechanic to smoothly trigger Eshki's ability, which rewards casting both a creature spell and a noncreature spell in the same turn with +1/+1 counters and card draw. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost rocks, dorks, and land ramp to deploy Eshki by Turn 3. From Turn 4 onward, casting Adventure spells from hand and their creature halves from exile fuels continuous card advantage and accelerates Eshki's combat stats. Large flying Dragons and token generators provide board presence, while overrun effects like Become the Avalanche and power multipliers like Two-Handed Axe close out the game through lethal combat damage. While the deck boasts high card velocity and resilient threat density, it commits significant mana during precombat main phases, making proactive board shielding and reactive countermagic limited.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aquatic Alchemist // Bubble Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beanstalk Wurm // Plant Beans
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Become the Avalanche
  • 1 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dirgur Island Dragon // Skimming Strike
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Eshki Dragonclaw
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Ultimatum
  • 1 Hammerhead Tyrant
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Klauth's Will
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lockjaw, Slobbering Teleporter
  • 1 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy
  • 1 Magmablood Archaic
  • 1 Mammoth Bellow
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Questing Druid // Seek the Beast
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Roar of Endless Song
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Roiling Dragonstorm
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual
  • 1 Runescale Stormbrood // Chilling Screech
  • 1 Sagu Wildling // Roost Seek
  • 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
  • 1 Scalding Viper // Steam Clean
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songcrafter Mage
  • 1 Stormkeld Vanguard // Bear Down
  • 1 Stormshriek Feral // Flush Out
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sword Coast Sailor
  • 1 Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave
  • 1 Synchronized Charge
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tempest Hart // Scan the Clouds
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Ureni, the Song Unending
  • 1 Whirlwing Stormbrood // Dynamic Soar
  • 1 Will of the Temur
  • 1 Winternight Stories
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Young Blue Dragon // Sand Augury