Plants vs. Zombies by Luminary

Format: Commander

Commander: Hansk, Slayer Zealot

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul midrange control strategy built around Hansk, Slayer Zealot. It leverages Hansk's ability to gift opponents three 2/2 Walker Zombie tokens each upkeep, turning those tokens into card advantage and lethal damage. The deck ramps during the early turns with high-toughness defender creatures like Overgrown Battlement and Wall of Roots. These creatures naturally survive the deck's wide suite of 2-damage sweepers, including Pyroclasm, Whipflare, and Volcanic Fallout. Once Hansk is established, Aether Flash creates an automatic draw engine, while win conditions such as Repercussion, Dingus Staff, and Vicious Shadows weaponize the death of gifted tokens to burn the entire table. Defensive tools like Elephant Grass and various fog effects prevent opponents from attacking with their gifted zombies. The deck eventually closes the game through cumulative burn triggers and large trample attackers like Briar Hydra and Centaur Vinecrasher.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Flash
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Blinding Fog
  • 1 Briar Hydra
  • 1 Bristlebud Farmer
  • 1 Bristlepack Sentry
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Centaur Vinecrasher
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dingus Staff
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Elephant Grass
  • 1 Elfhame Sanctuary
  • 1 Engineered Explosives
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Flourishing Bloom-Kin
  • 1 Fog
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fuel the Flames
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Grappling Sundew
  • 1 Grave Bramble
  • 1 Hansk, Slayer Zealot
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Highland Forest
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Lithobraking
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omnivorous Flytrap
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Arch
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Portcullis Vine
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Pyroclasm
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ratchet Bomb
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Rolling Earthquake
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Filigree Sylex
  • 1 Thwart the Enemy
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Topiary Panther
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Vampires' Vengeance
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vicious Shadows
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Volcanic Fallout
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wall of Vines
  • 1 Well Rested
  • 1 Whipflare
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth