Heroes Current by dklemow

Format: Commander

Commander: The Thing

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Hero-tribal midrange deck built around The Thing. The primary game plan develops mana and low-cost Hero utility creatures during the early turns, casting The Thing on Turn 5. By casting cheap noncreature spells before combat, the commander triggers four +1/+1 counters and attacks as a massive trampling threat. When it attacks, paying {R}{G}{W}{U} doubles all counters on your permanents, rapidly escalating commander damage to eliminate opponents one by one across consecutive turns. Secondary synergies amplify this plan using counter multipliers like Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor and team-wide buffs like Cathars' Crusade. The deck protects its board through a robust suite of instant-speed hexproof and indestructible spells such as Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention, while drawing cards through engines like Terrasymbiosis. It closes games through overwhelming trample combat damage around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avengers Assemble!
  • 1 Avengers Tower
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
  • 1 Black Panther, Wakandan King
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Captain America, Super-Soldier
  • 1 Captain Marvel, Earth's Protector
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council of Reeds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Earth's Mightiest Heroes
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulk, Strongest There Is
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Invisible Force Field
  • 1 Invisible Woman, Sue Storm
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Origin of the Avengers
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personify
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Recommission
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Royal Talon Fighter Jet
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Spider-Man, Miles Morales
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm, Windrider
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Take Up the Shield
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Thing
  • 1 The Thing, Ben Grimm
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thor Odinson
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 White Widow, Free Agent
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wolverine, Claws Out
  • 1 World War Hulk