whatever. go my hamster by bigsleep0

Format: Commander

Commander: Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Gruul +1/+1 counters deck helmed by Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes, built to grow one or two enormous trampling hydras and then cash them in for lethal. The commander provides a steady stream of Boo tokens, a +1 ability that pumps any trample/haste creature, and a -2 sacrifice outlet that turns a giant hydra into direct damage (and cards, if the sacrificed creature is a Hamster). The deck's primary win paths are combat with doubled-up hydras, a one-shot Chandra's Ignition on a massive creature, or the commander's -2 ability. Counter doublers and increasers - Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, Kami of Whispered Hopes, The Earth Crystal, Benevolent Hydra - accelerate the growth curve dramatically. It is a straightforward, value-oriented midrange beatdown deck with no fast combo and very little stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ascendant Acolyte
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fissure
  • 1 Fling
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hamletback Goliath
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Ironscale Hydra
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Pawpatch Formation
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Realm Seekers
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Scute Mob
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Unleash Fury