Helga by omonreal

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Helga, Skittish Seer is the entire engine: every 4+ mana creature cast draws a card, gains a life, and makes Helga bigger, turning her into scaling mana for the next big creature. The deck accelerates to Helga on turn three, then chains creatures like Mulldrifter, Beast Whisperer, and Chulane while untap effects such as Breaching Hippocamp and Kiora's Follower let it cast multiple big spells in one turn. It wins by converting the resulting board of counters and big bodies into one trampling attack with Elesh Norn, Overwhelming Stampede, or Season of Gathering. There is no hidden commander and no true infinite combo; Hullbreaker Horror plus Sol Ring is only a tempo tool.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breaching Hippocamp
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Galadriel, Light of Valinor
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant-Sized Flying Ant
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Guardian Augmenter
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Season of Gathering
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tanufel Rimespeaker
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Transcendent Dragon
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Well Rested
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor