Fist of Heartwood by Strife6567

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerid Konstrari

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 74

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Gruul combo list engineered to execute game-ending infinite lines on Turn 3. It utilizes format-ceiling mana acceleration, including Moxen, Sol Ring, Mana Vault, and low-cost dorks, to rapidly reach critical mana thresholds. The primary victory route leverages Dualcaster Mage combined with Twinflame or Molten Duplication to create unbounded hasty attackers that win immediately in combat. Alternatively, the deck can assemble Food Chain with Squee, the Immortal to generate infinite creature mana, casting Aerid Konstrari repeatedly to produce infinite Heartwood artifact tokens and burn out the table through Reckless Fireweaver or Ingenious Artillerist. Robust protection elements like Defense Grid, Vexing Bauble, Hexing Squelcher, Deflecting Swat, and Veil of Summer insulate its win attempts against opposing stack interaction. While lacking dedicated creature removal, its sheer speed, redundancy, and explosive recursion through Underworld Breach make it a relentless proactive threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Warrior's Oath
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor