Counter Goad by luke56

Format: Commander

Commander: Kros, Defense Contractor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck leverages Kros, Defense Contractor to transform standard +1/+1, shield, and stun counters into political weapons. Whenever counters are placed on an opponent's creature, Kros taps that creature and goads it while granting trample. This simultaneously strips away blockers and forces opposing threats to crash into each other. Backed by classic pillowfort staples like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, plus taxing effects like Nils, Discipline Enforcer, the deck ensures that retaliatory attacks are impossible. Proliferate engines such as Evolution Sage, Contagion Engine, and Flux Channeler multiply these counters across the board, locking down opposing armies indefinitely. Meanwhile, synergistic value engines like Generous Patron and Verity Circle convert tapped or counter-laden enemy creatures into substantial card advantage. The deck aims to let opponents dismantle each other before closing out the final survivor with asymmetric board clears, Reins of Power, or a lethal combat swing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Agent Bishop, Man in Black
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cathedral Acolyte
  • 1 Cloud's Limit Break
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Cryptic Trilobite
  • 1 Cytoplast Manipulator
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Don't Move
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kros, Defense Contractor
  • 1 Llanowar Reborn
  • 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Novijen, Heart of Progress
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Plaxcaster Frogling
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Regna's Sanction
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spike Weaver
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Struggle for Project Purity
  • 1 Suppressor Skyguard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Theft of Dreams
  • 1 Thirsting Roots
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Unbounded Potential
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Viral Drake
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast