Not Spiders 🕸️ by samhicks8627

Format: Commander

Commander: Dhalsim, Pliable Pacifist

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Green-White "toughness matters" deck built around a swarm of high-toughness reach creatures - spiders, archers, and snakes - and the commander Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant. The plan is to deploy a board of cheap reach bodies, turn on toughness-matters effects like Assault Formation, Huatli, the Sun's Heart, Baldin, Century Herdmaster, Rasaad yn Bashir, and Tapestry Warden so those 1/4s and 1/5s deal damage equal to their toughness, then attack with the commander's untap-on-attack and combat-damage draw to keep the engine refueling. Wins come from incremental combat damage, often amplified by toughness pumps like Bar the Door, Solidarity, and Tower Defense. There are no infinite combos - this is a value-beatdown strategy that grinds card advantage through combat and defends with reach.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Adventure Awaits
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Atzocan Archer
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Bar the Door
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Builder's Blessing
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Canopy Spider
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Castle
  • 1 Chainweb Aracnir
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with the Gods
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Dhalsim, Pliable Pacifist
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Dragon Sniper
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Druids' Repository
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri's Archers
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Hitchclaw Recluse
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 1 Intrepid Stablemaster
  • 1 Invasion of Ixalan // Belligerent Regisaur
  • 1 Jaspera Sentinel
  • 1 Juvenile Gloomwidow
  • 1 Legolas Greenleaf
  • 1 Legolas, Master Archer
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Noetic Scales
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Oran-Rief Recluse
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Radioactive Spider
  • 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Ruins Recluse
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Silhana Starfletcher
  • 1 Skyshooter
  • 1 Snarespinner
  • 1 Solidarity
  • 1 Sporecap Spider
  • 1 Sporeweb Weaver
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Tapestry Warden
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Tower Worker
  • 1 Twin-Silk Spider
  • 1 Wasteful Harvest