Kresh the blood fueled by FishyGoon

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Midrange build helmed by Kresh the Bloodbraided that merges Voltron combat with Aristocrats synergies. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns using 2-mana artifacts and land search to deploy Kresh ahead of curve on Turn 4. On Turn 5, it casts high-power, self-sacrificing creatures like Ball Lightning and Lightning Skelemental or evokes Spitebellows to rapidly load Kresh with +1/+1 counters. By Turn 6, power doublers and combat enhancers like Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder, Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave, and Temur Battle Rage allow Kresh to deal lethal commander damage in single attacks. Supporting cards like Grave Pact clear opposing creature boards while feeding Kresh. The deck features extensive permanent removal, though it lacks stack countermagic and burst card draw engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Acererak the Archlich
• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ares, God of War
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avenger of the Fallen
• 1 Ball Lightning
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brawn
• 1 Champion's Helm
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Darksteel Plate
• 1 Death's Presence
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Dragon Broodmother
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 6 Forest
• 1 Foundation Breaker
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Gruul Signet
• 1 Haunted Cloak
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hull Breach
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infantry Shield
• 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lightning Skelemental
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mage Slayer
• 1 Mandate of Abaddon
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
• 1 Murder
• 1 Nightblade Brigade
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Power Fist
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rise of the Witch-king
• 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sheoldred's Edict
• 1 Shock Brigade
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Soul's Fire
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Spitebellows
• 1 Stalking Vengeance
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Temur Battle Rage
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Masamune
• 1 The Skullspore Nexus
• 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Venerated Stormsinger
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vibrance
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground