Kona, Rescue Beastie by Serein

Format: Commander

Commander: Kona, Rescue Beastie

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-green battlecruiser cheat strategy piloted by Kona, Rescue Beastie. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Vehicles and tap artifacts (Sky Skiff, Funeral Longboat, Cultivator's Caravan, Relic of Legends) in the early turns, casting Kona on turn 3 or 4, and tapping Kona immediately without risking it in unfavorable combat. At the beginning of the second main phase, Kona's Survival ability triggers, placing game-ending behemoths directly from hand onto the battlefield without paying their massive mana costs. The payload includes devastating Eldrazi titans (Pathrazer of Ulamog, Ulamog's Crusher), massive Wurms (Worldspine Wurm, Impervious Greatwurm), and high-impact enchantments (Lurking Predators, Unnatural Growth). Once assembled, the deck rapidly compounds board presence each turn cycle, overcoming blockers via Trample and Annihilator to eliminate all three opponents across sequential combat steps by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aggressive Mammoth
  • 1 Ancient Ooze
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Breaker of Armies
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Careening Mine Cart
  • 1 Cement Shoes
  • 1 Cultivator's Caravan
  • 1 Deceiver of Form
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Engulfing Slagwurm
  • 33 Forest
  • 1 Funeral Longboat
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Hand of Emrakul
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Heirloom Epic
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 High-Speed Hoverbike
  • 1 Hunter's Talent
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
  • 1 Kalonian Behemoth
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mossbridge Troll
  • 1 Paleoloth
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Primal Surge
  • 1 Primeval Protector
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ring of Three Wishes
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakiko, Mother of Summer
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Sky Skiff
  • 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Stonehoof Chieftain
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Journal
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Treeshaker Chimera
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Ulvenwald Observer
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Force
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Dryad