Saskias Bears by hokochu

Format: Commander

Commander: Saskia the Unyielding

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck executes an Aggro-Stax strategy built around a dense 4-color hatebear foundation, accelerating with ten 1-drop mana dorks to deploy disruptive permanents ahead of opposing curves. Early stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate, Deafening Silence, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, and Yasharn, Implacable Earth constrain opposing game actions by locking out commanders, taxing spells, and turning off fetchlands and Treasure tokens. While opponents struggle against these asymmetrical taxes, the deck digs through card engines like Trouble in Pairs, Sylvan Library, and Esper Sentinel to assemble its primary win condition: Godo, Bandit Warlord. When cast on Turn 5, Godo fetches Helm of the Host to the battlefield, setting up an infinite combat loop on Turn 6 that eliminates all three opponents in a single turn. If Godo is contested, Saskia the Unyielding enables explosive combat damage duplication, transforming hatebears into a fast alternate clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Archivist of Oghma
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Confidant
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deafening Silence
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Drannith Magistrate
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Faeburrow Elder
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 6 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Glimpse of Nature
• 1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Jetmir's Garden
• 1 Kudo, King Among Bears
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 6 Plains
• 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Saskia the Unyielding
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Solitude
• 1 Soulless Jailer
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 Tocasia's Welcome
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth
• 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground