Bruse & Ikra by Ishkin276

Format: Commander

Commander: Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a four-color artifact/Vehicle beatdown deck built around the partner pair Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder. The central plan is to deploy high-toughness artifact creatures and Vehicles, use Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder to hand a creature double strike and lifelink every combat, and turn the resulting combat damage into enormous life totals through Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper's toughness-based life-gain trigger. That life is then weaponized by Aetherflux Reservoir, Sanguine Bond, Well of Lost Dreams, Caduceus, Staff of Hermes, and Leyline of Hope. In the midgame the deck shifts into artifact-aggro mode with Alibou, Ancient Witness, Krang, Utrom Warlord, Karn, Legacy Reforged, and Reaver Titan, closing with an Akroma's Will alpha strike or repeated Aetherflux activations. There are no infinite combos; inevitability comes from a dense recursion package and a resilient artifact board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Canoptek Spyder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Lapse of Certainty
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reaver Titan
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader
  • 1 Steel Seraph
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground