Hylda by bobbert63

Format: Commander

Commander: Hylda of the Icy Crown

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Azorius "tap-matters" control deck built almost entirely around Hylda of the Icy Crown. The game plan is to deploy a suite of cheap tap outlets - Gideon's Lawkeeper, Goldmeadow Harrier, Master Decoy, Pacification Array, Hylda's Crown of Winter - then convert every tapped opponent creature into a 4/4 Elemental, a board-wide pump, or a card draw. Verity Circle, Matoya, Archon Elder, and Opposition form the long-game engine, while Captain America, Living Legend and Village Bell-Ringer create burst turns with several Hylda triggers at once. The deck wins through combat attrition with its token army, backed by a Dovescape/Omniscience enchantment package fetched by Academy Rector that locks out opposing noncreature spells and floods the board with Birds. It is a slow, grindy control deck with no infinite combos and an unusually high reliance on the commander for nearly all of its payoffs.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Locket
  • 1 Blinding Beam
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Checkpoint Officer
  • 1 Clear the Mind
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court Street Denizen
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Defiler of Faith
  • 1 Devouring Light
  • 1 Dovescape
  • 1 Elite Scaleguard
  • 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
  • 1 Elvish Mariner
  • 1 Envoy of the Ancestors
  • 1 Freeze in Place
  • 1 Gideon's Lawkeeper
  • 1 Goldmeadow Harrier
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Gustcloak Savior
  • 1 Hold the Line
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Hylda's Crown of Winter
  • 1 Icewrought Sentry
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Ivory Giant
  • 1 Law-Rune Enforcer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Mage's Guile
  • 1 Master Decoy
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle
  • 1 Nephalia Academy
  • 1 New Benalia
  • 1 Not on My Watch
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opposition
  • 1 Pacification Array
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Plunge into Winter
  • 1 Quiet Contemplation
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Runic Shot
  • 1 Rustler Rampage
  • 1 Saving Grasp
  • 1 Scholar of New Horizons
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Spell Shrivel
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stave Off
  • 1 Succumb to the Cold
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Tempest Caller
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Trip Noose
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Village Bell-Ringer
  • 1 Willbender
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach