Bafo de Peixe - Hakbal by user5575159

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Simic Merfolk tribal strategy led by Hakbal of the Surging Soul. It leverages low-cost Merfolk to establish early board presence before deploying Hakbal on turn 4. Hakbal turns every combat step into a massive resource engine: each Merfolk explores, smoothing land drops, drawing lands to hand, and placing +1/+1 counters on nonland reveals. Hakbal's attack trigger further accelerates mana by cheating lands directly onto the battlefield. The deck converts this rapid stat growth and card velocity into lethal combat damage using evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams and Lord of Atlantis paired with Harbinger of the Seas. A robust interaction suite of cheap counterspells, targeted removal, and board protection spells like Ripples of Potential and Heroic Intervention shields the board against sweepers while closing the game across turns 5 to 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deepchannel Mentor
  • 1 Deeproot Elite
  • 1 Desertion
  • 1 Emperor Mihail II
  • 1 Empress Galina
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Explore
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
  • 1 Harbinger of the Seas
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
  • 1 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
  • 1 Lord of Atlantis
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
  • 1 Merfolk Mistbinder
  • 1 Merfolk Sovereign
  • 1 Merrow Harbinger
  • 1 Merrow Reejerey
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mist Dancer
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Power Fist
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seafloor Oracle
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  • 1 Topography Tracker
  • 1 True-Name Nemesis
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker