Kona by Brayton

Format: Commander

Commander: Kona, Rescue Beastie

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This mono-green Commander deck focuses on accelerating into Kona, Rescue Beastie to cheat colossal permanents directly onto the battlefield. By leveraging cheap ramp spells and haste enablers, the deck taps Kona during combat to trigger Survival in the second main phase. This cheat mechanic bypasses prohibitive mana costs for game-ending threats like Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Cultivator Colossus, Nyxbloom Ancient, and The Great Henge as early as Turn 4. The supporting landfall engine—featuring Scute Swarm, Avenger of Zendikar, and Lumra, Bellow of the Woods—generates overwhelming creature swarms and explosive mana pools with Gaea's Cradle. The primary route to victory culminates on Turn 5 by resolving Craterhoof Behemoth or an oversized Finale of Devastation to trample over opposing boards for lethal damage. If Kona is answered, the deck easily pivots to hardcasting its high-end threats using abundant basic land ramp and creature tutors.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 24 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glacier Godmaw
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Seeker of Skybreak
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Worldly Tutor