Kresh the Bloodbraided by user5495238

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Aristocrats and Voltron strategy built around Kresh the Bloodbraided. The primary game plan accelerates early mana through green dorks, land ramp, and signets to deploy Kresh ahead of curve. Once on the battlefield, the deck leverages high-power creatures like Force of Savagery, edict effects like Fleshbag Marauder, and sacrifice outlets to rapidly grow Kresh into a massive threat. The deck converts Kresh's immense power into victory through evasive combat damage or explosive direct damage spells such as Chandra's Ignition, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Fling, and Soul's Fire. Secondary card engines like Greater Good, Disciple of Bolas, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King ensure a steady hand size by turning large bodies into raw card advantage. While the list lacks fast combo speed and stack interaction, its high redundancy in power-scaling payoffs and robust backup finishers provide resilient, heavy-hitting pressure against mid-power tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Bloodhall Ooze
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 2 Command Tower
  • 1 Copper Myr
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Deathcap Cultivator
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Essence Harvest
  • 1 Fallen Ideal
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatal Frenzy
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Force of Savagery
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
  • 1 Life's Legacy
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Madrush Cyclops
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rite of Consumption
  • 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shattergang Brothers
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Sprouting Thrinax
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid