Tideshapers by Alexei_Svik

Format: Commander

Commander: Rikala, Homarid King

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic counter-manipulation and token-swarm strategy helmed by Rikala, Homarid King. The commander generates tide counters each upkeep, temporarily pumping your team and providing bonus blue mana when tapping Islands. The deck's core revolves around proliferate effects, counter-moving pieces, and token doublers to create an overwhelming board of creatures. Primary win conditions include a massive token army via Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Doppelgang, pumped by Rikala's +1/+0 per tide counter, or a high-X Finale of Devastation granting haste and trample to finish the table. The deck also leverages land-type-changing effects (Realmwright, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove) to maximize Island synergies. It is a value-oriented midrange deck that aims to grind out advantage before winning through combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1 Aggressive Biomancy
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Biomass Mutation
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Chisei, Heart of Oceans
• 1 Clockspinning
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Doppelgang
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Floodgate
• 1 Flow of Ideas
• 1 Flow of Knowledge
• 1 Flux Channeler
• 7 Forest
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gelatinous Genesis
• 1 Goldberry, River-Daughter
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Hexavus
• 1 High Tide
• 1 Hooded Hydra
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 16 Island
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Magus of the Candelabra
• 1 Mathemagics
• 1 Moonring Island
• 1 Moxite Refinery
• 1 Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Planar Genesis
• 1 Power Conduit
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Pull from Tomorrow
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Realmwright
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rikala, Homarid King
• 1 Rimewood Falls
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
• 1 Scourge of Fleets
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Spectral Deluge
• 1 Stolen by the Fae
• 1 Stormtide Leviathan
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Offering
• 1 Tangled Islet
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Turbulent Wilderness
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth