Helga by KenvyntheKind

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant stompy midrange strategy commanded by Helga, Skittish Seer. The game plan centers on deploying Helga on Turn 3, then chaining creature spells with mana value 4 or greater to continuously draw cards, gain life, and increase Helga's power. Helga's tap ability converts this power into large amounts of mana restricted to high-cost creatures and {X} spells, accelerating the deployment of massive threats like Carnage Tyrant, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and Koma, World-Eater. Card draw enchantments such as Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond keep the hand full, ensuring a relentless curve of large bodies. The deck finishes games through overwhelming combat damage, leveraging Overwhelming Stampede, Unnatural Growth, and Surrak and Goreclaw to grant trample, haste, and decisive power boosts. While vulnerable to board wipes and lacking fast combo kills, its high redundancy and resilient threats provide steady inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coordinated Clobbering
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Don't Make a Sound
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvenking's Halls
  • 1 Etched Cornfield
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Falcon's Wing Harness
  • 1 Fear of Abduction
  • 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Galion, Elvenking's Butler
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Growth
  • 1 Golden Ratio
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Herald of Eternal Dawn
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Ivy Elemental
  • 1 Ka-Zar of the Savage Land
  • 1 Katara's Reversal
  • 1 Kelpie Guide
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lakeside Shack
  • 1 Long River Lurker
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Meandering River
  • 1 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
  • 1 Omega, Heartless Evolution
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Pym Technologies
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Suburban Sanctuary
  • 1 Summon: Magus Sisters
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrian, World Tyrant
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Whoosh!
  • 1 Yeva, Nature's Herald