Naya Shalai and Hallar Counter Nukes by Deepfreeze

Format: Commander

Commander: Shalai and Hallar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

Shalai and Hallar leads a Naya counter deck whose strongest plan is a damage loop with The Red Terror. The loop needs three roles: the commander, The Red Terror, and a separate event that puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature. Once that event occurs, Shalai and Hallar deals damage, The Red Terror receives a counter from that red damage, and the new counter creates another damage trigger. The damage can be divided among all three opponents for a same-turn win. The list has many interchangeable counter enablers and several creature tutors, but The Red Terror remains a relatively narrow access point. Its mana base and ramp support a normal midrange curve rather than cEDH speed, and many lands enter tapped. Protection is present but partial. If the combo is not found, the deck can instead build a large counter-based combat board with cards such as Kalonian Hydra, Ouroboroid, and Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Atmospheric Greenhouse
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Beyond the Quiet
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
  • 1 Botanical Brawler
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Clay Champion
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Dimension X
  • 1 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haliya, Ascendant Cadet
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honor
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Larval Scoutlander
  • 1 Leader's Talent
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Luxknight Breacher
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Omashu City
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Pull Through the Weft
  • 1 Repair and Recharge
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Roamer's Routine
  • 1 Sami, Wildcat Captain
  • 1 Savage Mansion
  • 1 Shalai and Hallar
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Skyknight Squire
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spike Feeder
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Suburban Sanctuary
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Red Terror
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 War Elemental
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis // Lasting Fayth