Cheers! (Paper) by user4243345

Format: Commander

Commander: Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant +1/+1 counters midrange powerhouse led by Tidus, Yuna's Guardian. It establishes early board presence using efficient counter generators like Luminarch Aspirant, Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte, and Hardened Scales. Once Tidus enters the battlefield, combat triggers allow moving counters and proliferating while drawing cards on damage. The deck accelerates into the midgame using counter-scaling mana engines like Incubation Druid and Gyre Sage, rapidly deploying exponential counter amplifiers such as Branching Evolution, Doubling Season, Cathars' Crusade, and Court of Garenbrig. As the board swells, evasion pieces like Herald of Secret Streams and Duskshell Crawler, or asymmetric sweepers like Damning Verdict and Wave Goodbye, clear the way for decisive combat finishes. A robust suite of protection spells, including Heroic Intervention and cheap counterspells, shields key permanents from opposing disruption, while redundant card draw engines ensure sustained momentum against attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arwen, Mortal Queen
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Clamavus
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Garenbrig
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Falco Spara, Pactweaver
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gatta and Luzzu
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Generous Pup
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Luminarch Aspirant
  • 1 Maester Seymour
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reluctant Role Model
  • 1 Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Worldly Tutor