Crab by user5843870

Format: Commander

Commander: Homer, the Hermit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Sultai deck focuses on a Crab-tribal landfall mill strategy led by Homer, the Hermit. The primary game plan deploys low-cost Crabs, Changelings, and ramp spells during the opening turns, assembling Homer on Turn 4 to begin milling opponents whenever lands enter the battlefield. By Turn 6, the deck escalates into a critical threat using landfall amplifiers like Awaken the Woods, Ancient Greenwarden, or double-mill effects like Bruvac the Grandiloquent and kicked Maddening Cacophony. The deck finishes opponents by Turn 8 through total library exhaustion or by casting Rise of the Dark Realms to command an army of reanimated creatures. Additionally, it contains the compact two-card infinite combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank as an alternate victory route. The deck features strong card flow and interaction through spells like Mana Drain, Assassin's Trophy, and Deadly Rollick, though it remains vulnerable to graveyard shuffle effects and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Ancient Crab
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Canyon Crab
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cruel Calculations
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathsprout
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Scuttler
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Homer, the Hermit
  • 1 Horseshoe Crab
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Mirrorshell Crab
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mutable Explorer
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Purple Pentapus
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rikala, Homarid King
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scuttletide
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Watery Grave