JLK's Super-Skrull | Game Knights #86 by Stiggs

Format: Commander

Commander: Super-Skrull

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Super-Skrull leads a five-color defender/toughness deck built around an activated-ability engine. The primary plan is to ramp with defender mana dorks, reduce Super-Skrull's activated costs with Training Grounds, Zirda, Biomancer's Familiar, and Agatha, then use the commander to create 0/4 Wall tokens, draw four cards, and remove creatures. Jaws of Defeat turns each Wall token into 4 life loss, while Arcades, the Strategist acts as the hidden commander, letting the wall army attack with toughness. A secondary Kenrith/Thrasios activated-ability package adds card draw, recursion, and haste. The deck is not a combo deck; it wins through an overwhelming wall-and-drain combat finish, with The Pride of Hull Clade as a near-free finisher.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 Arcades, the Strategist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Widow, Agile Avenger
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Echo, Perceptive Prodigy
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plasm Capture
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Super-Skrull
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Zirda, the Dawnwaker