Reach Around Real Low by Sakoontra
Format: Commander
Commander: Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Bracket: 2
Deck overview
This deck is a **toughness-matters combat build** helmed by Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant, leveraging his reach-based pseudo-unblockability and card-draw trigger to turn a swarm of low-power, high-toughness creatures into an evasive, incremental-value army. The core game plan is to deploy one of several "toughness-equals-power" effects (Assault Formation, Bedrock Tortoise, Huatli, the Sun's Heart, Baldin, Century Herdmaster, or Rasaad yn Bashir) and then attack with reach creatures that the commander makes unblockable by creatures of greater power. Each attacker gains card draw from the commander or from Ohran Frostfang/Toski, Bearer of Secrets, while Baldin and pump spells like Solidarity or Tower Defense rapidly escalate toughness to lethal levels. The deck operates at a midrange pace, using light ramp, selective tutors, and a versatile suite of one-sided board wipes to control the board while building its own board. It has no infinite combos and relies entirely on combat damage over several turns to close out games.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Arachnogenesis
- 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
- 1 Arboreal Grazer
- 1 Assault Formation
- 1 Atzocan Archer
- 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
- 1 Bedrock Tortoise
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
- 1 Brushland
- 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
- 1 Cache Grab
- 1 Canopy Vista
- 1 Castle
- 1 Champion of Lambholt
- 1 Chord of Calling
- 1 Clifftop Lookout
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commune with the Gods
- 1 Crackdown
- 1 Crashing Drawbridge
- 1 Deadly Recluse
- 1 Divine Resilience
- 1 Dragon Sniper
- 1 Dusk // Dawn
- 1 Eladamri's Call
- 1 Fecund Greenshell
- 1 Fell the Mighty
- 1 Flawless Maneuver
- 18 Forest
- 1 Fortified Village
- 1 Generous Gift
- 1 Grasp of Fate
- 1 Guardian Project
- 1 Heroic Intervention
- 1 Horizon Canopy
- 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
- 1 Intrepid Stablemaster
- 1 Jaspera Sentinel
- 1 Legolas Greenleaf
- 1 Legolas, Master Archer
- 1 Malevolent Rumble
- 1 Meekstone
- 1 Nature's Will
- 1 Ohran Frostfang
- 1 Oran-Rief Recluse
- 1 Overgrown Farmland
- 9 Plains
- 1 Qasali Ambusher
- 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
- 1 Requisition Raid
- 1 Restoration Magic
- 1 Retribution of the Meek
- 1 Ruins Recluse
- 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
- 1 Silhana Starfletcher
- 1 Silklash Spider
- 1 Skyshooter
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Solidarity
- 1 Sporeweb Weaver
- 1 Stonecoil Serpent
- 1 Sunpetal Grove
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
- 1 Tapestry Warden
- 1 Thornweald Archer
- 1 Three Visits
- 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- 1 Tower Defense
- 1 Tower Winder
- 1 Tower Worker
- 1 Wave of Reckoning
- 1 Webspinner Cuff
- 1 Welcoming Vampire