kratos and son by 19tnickell

Format: Commander

Commander: Kratos, Stoic Father and Atreus, Impulsive Son

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck pairs Kratos, Stoic Father and Atreus, Impulsive Son to execute a resilient God-tribal and counter-scaling strategy. Kratos generates experience counters whenever your Gods attack or die, converting that experience into +1/+1 counters on your creatures each end step. Atreus weaponizes these counters into repeatable card draw and direct table-wide burn. The deck surrounds the commander pair with resilient Theros Gods, changelings, and token multipliers such as Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation and Otharri, Suns' Glory. Because experience counters reside permanently on the player rather than on the battlefield, the deck recovers quickly from creature removal. It closes games through unblockable or double-striking combat damage alongside consistent non-combat burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang, Airbending Master
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Atreus, Impulsive Son
  • 1 Avian Changeling
  • 1 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
  • 1 Blade Historian
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Changeling Wayfinder
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Kratos, Stoic Father
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Otharri, Suns' Glory
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Locust God
  • 1 The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Xorn