HollowKnight by Zacca

Format: Commander

Commander: Vrestin, Menoptra Leader

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Selesnya token-swarm and +1/+1 counter strategy led by Vrestin, Menoptra Leader. Its primary plan ramps efficiently during the early turns to cast Vrestin on turn 4 with multiple flying Insect tokens. On turn 5, swinging with the swarm triggers Vrestin to distribute +1/+1 counters across every attacking Insect, establishing a growing aerial clock. Support engines like Hardened Scales, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, and Felidar Retreat accelerate counter generation, while anthems such as Beastmaster Ascension and Banner of Kinship turn modest flying tokens into lethal threats. The deck draws cards effectively through creature-count payoffs like Armorcraft Judge and Inspiring Call, while defending its board with instant-speed protection spells. Because it relies purely on combat damage across multiple attack steps, the deck is vulnerable to exile sweepers and heavy interactive control, but its dense ramp package and redundant token generators provide resilient mid-game rebuilding power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Battle Priest
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armorcraft Judge
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caustic Wasps
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Communal Brewing
  • 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Figure of Fable
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Grasslands
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 It of the Horrid Swarm
  • 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Living Hive
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 March of the World Ooze
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rite of Harmony
  • 1 Rite of Passage
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sledge-Class Seedship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinner of Souls
  • 1 Spring-Leaf Avenger
  • 1 Stag Beetle
  • 1 Strength of the Harvest // Haven of the Harvest
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Sweet-Gum Recluse
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Symbiotic Beast
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Hunger Tide Rises
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
  • 1 Wild Growth