Kresh 2 Death by Faye_SZMJ_DaVita

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund midrange strategy built around Kresh the Bloodbraided, combining classic Aristocrats sacrifice synergies with explosive +1/+1 counter scaling. The early turns establish mana velocity and recurring token generators such as Sprouting Thrinax and Golgari Germination. Once Kresh enters the battlefield on Turn 5, any creature death across the table inflates Kresh into a massive threat, accelerated by counter multipliers like Branching Evolution and Corpsejack Menace. The deck closes out games starting around Turn 6 by granting Kresh trample through cards like Duskshell Crawler or converting massive power into direct player damage with flings like Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together and Flesh // Blood. While resilient against board wipes thanks to rich graveyard recursion like Slimefoot and Squee, the deck remains vulnerable to well-timed spot removal due to a light reactive protection suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Atalan Jackal
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blighted Fen
• 1 Blood Pet
• 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daily Bugle Building
• 1 Deathreap Ritual
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Enterprising Scallywag
• 1 Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Find // Finality
• 1 Flesh // Blood
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fungal Rebirth
• 1 Ghitu Encampment
• 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
• 1 Gluttonous Hellkite
• 1 Gnarlid Colony
• 1 Golgari Germination
• 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
• 1 Gruul Charm
• 1 Gríma Wormtongue
• 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1 Heroes' Bane
• 1 Honest Rutstein
• 1 Jund Battlemage
• 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1 Keldon Mantle
• 1 Korozda Guildmage
• 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
• 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1 Long Feng, Grand Secretariat
• 1 Managorger Hydra
• 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Ominous Asylum
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pit of Offerings
• 1 Pizza Face, Gastromancer
• 1 Pridemalkin
• 1 Primal Druid
• 1 Primal Frenzy
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Punishing Punch
• 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
• 1 Ravenous Squirrel
• 1 Reign of the Pit
• 1 Restless Ridgeline
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rise of the Witch-king
• 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Signature Slam
• 1 Slimefoot and Squee
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Sprouting Thrinax
• 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 1 Squirrel Nest
• 1 Stormclaw Rager
• 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
• 1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 The Golden Throne
• 1 Tome of Legends
• 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
• 1 Twisted Landscape
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Ziatora's Envoy
• 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue