Mystery by smoothtcg

Format: Commander

Commander: Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai face-down creature engine commanded by Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer. Kadena discounts the first face-down creature cast each turn by {3} and draws a card whenever a face-down creature enters the battlefield. This turns every morph, disguise, and manifest card into a free board-developing cantrip. The strategy focuses on ramping into Kadena on Turn 3 or 4, rapidly accumulating hidden 2/2 creatures, and controlling the pace of the game through instant-speed un-morph triggers that counter spells, redirect abilities, and destroy permanents. The deck transitions into a win on Turn 6 either by locking opponents out of their untap steps with the classic Brine Elemental and Vesuvan Shapeshifter 'Pickles Lock' or by launching a massive overrun assault with Craterhoof Behemoth or Beastmaster Ascension. Robust protection spells and built-in disguise ward ensure the board remains resilient until victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Ainok Survivalist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bane of the Living
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brine Elemental
  • 1 Chromeshell Crab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathmist Raptor
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Den Protector
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo Tracer
  • 1 Exit Specialist
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experiment Twelve
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gift of Doom
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hauntwoods Shrieker
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Icefeather Aven
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
  • 1 Kadena's Silencer
  • 1 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mischievous Quanar
  • 1 Mistfire Weaver
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nantuko Vigilante
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nervous Gardener
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overgrown Zealot
  • 1 Panoptic Projektor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primordial Mist
  • 1 Printlifter Ooze
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sash and Waistcoat, Unmen
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silumgar Assassin
  • 1 Skinthinner
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stratus Dancer
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand Winds
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Ugin's Mastery
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
  • 1 Voidmage Apprentice
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Willbender
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler
  • 1 Zoetic Cavern