Kresh by Roguesmiles

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund Aristocrats and Midrange strategy commanded by Kresh the Bloodbraided. The primary game plan revolves around deploying Kresh on Turn 5 and leveraging symmetric sacrifice effects such as Fleshbag Marauder, Plaguecrafter, and Accursed Marauder, or mass damage sweepers like Blasphemous Act, to clear opposing boards while feeding Kresh's trigger. Once Kresh accumulates lethal power, the deck utilizes trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising and direct burn effects like Mage Slayer and Soul's Fire to eliminate opponents sequentially across combat steps. Alternate avenues of victory include group life loss and aristocrat drain engines powered by Syr Konrad, the Grim, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, and Mahadi, Emporium Master. The deck runs a high land count with moderate removal, but relies mostly on natural draws and combat steps to close games.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
• 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Binding the Old Gods
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1 Bushmeat Poacher
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Chain Reaction
• 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contagion Clasp
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1 Drag to the Underworld
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dregscape Zombie
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feign Death
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 1 Fireblade Artist
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 6 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gibbering Barricade
• 1 Gnarlid Colony
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grave Venerations
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Ifnir Deadlands
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infernal Vessel
• 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kheru Dreadmaw
• 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
• 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1 Lasting Tarfire
• 1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator
• 1 Mage Slayer
• 1 Magma Phoenix
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plaguecrafter
• 1 Poison-Tip Archer
• 1 Puca's Covenant
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1 Riveteers Overlook
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Samurai's Katana
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul's Fire
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Venerated Stormsinger
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
• 1 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients
• 1 Warlock Class
• 1 Woodland Cemetery