Kratos, God of War (Copy) by PaulDD

Format: Commander

Commander: Kratos, God of War

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This mono-red deck is commanded by Kratos, God of War, centering on forced combat, tap-stax, and asymmetric damage punishment. Kratos grants all creatures haste while punishing players during their end steps for every creature they control that did not attack. The deck builds a severe resource dilemma using cards like Smoke, Storage Matrix, and Uphill Battle, which force opposing creatures to enter tapped or remain tapped. Because tapped creatures cannot attack, Kratos and Angel's Trumpet shock their controllers at end of turn. Simultaneously, the deck gifts tokens to opponents via Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor and Akroan Horse, ensuring opponents control creatures that cannot harm you but will trigger Kratos. Damage multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell and Dictate of the Twin Gods, alongside commander damage spreaders like Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar, quickly close out games through compounding combat steps and inescapable burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agitator Ant
  • 1 Akroan Horse
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Angel's Trumpet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Arena of the Ancients
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
  • 1 Combat Celebrant
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 False Floor
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Frontier Warmonger
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Gornog, the Red Reaper
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Kratos, God of War
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
  • 29 Mountain
  • 1 Mudslide
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Sidequest: Play Blitzball // World Champion, Celestial Weapon
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Storage Matrix
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Uphill Battle
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Varchild's War-Riders
  • 1 Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 World at War