Merfolk Tribe | Hakbal | MC by KaptajnClausen

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Simic Merfolk tribal midrange deck helmed by Hakbal of the Surging Soul. The plan is to flood the board with Merfolk, then leverage Hakbal's beginning-of-combat explore trigger to grow the team with +1/+1 counters while filtering lands into hand. Hakbal's attack trigger converts those lands into free ramp or card draw, creating a self-fueling engine. Counter doublers (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution), lords (Master of the Pearl Trident, Merrow Reejerey, Merfolk Sovereign), and evasion (Herald of Secret Streams, islandwalk) turn the swarm lethal. Token makers like Deeproot Waters and Emperor Mihail II pad the board, while Kindred Discovery and Tatyova, Benthic Druid refill the hand. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through fair combat damage, supported by a modest interaction suite and light protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Aquitect's Will
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Deeproot Elite
  • 1 Deeproot Historian
  • 1 Deeproot Waters
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emperor Mihail II
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 Gnarlid Colony
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
  • 1 Lignify
  • 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
  • 1 Merfolk Cave-Diver
  • 1 Merfolk Skydiver
  • 1 Merfolk Sovereign
  • 1 Merfolk Spy
  • 1 Merrow Commerce
  • 1 Merrow Reejerey
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mist Dancer
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
  • 1 Quandrix Command
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruinous Intrusion
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Singer of Swift Rivers
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Topography Tracker
  • 1 Tributary Instructor
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker