Rising Terra by Kunakorp

Format: Commander

Commander: Terra, Herald of Hope

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Mardu reanimator/aristocrats combo deck. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard, then sacrifice-loop for infinite life-drain; Terra functions as optional self-mill and small-creature recursion, not as the engine. The signature kill is Gravecrawler + Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat: sacrificing Gravecrawler to Warren makes a Treasure, and because Warren is a Zombie Gravecrawler can be recast from the graveyard forever. Backup lines use Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder, Karmic Guide/Body Launderer loops, and Living Death mass-reanimation. A midrange/treasure plan featuring Aurelia, Sephiroth, and Grim Hireling provides a secondary beatdown path. There is no hidden commander; Sephiroth is a high-value reanimation/drain payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat