heartwood by TrezFlare

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerid Konstrari

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Gruul artifact deck is built around Aerid Konstrari, using its Heartwood token creation and artifact-scaling abilities to fuel an explosive midrange game plan. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient green land ramp and mana rocks, deploying the commander on Turn 3. It leverages large artifact counts to power up cards like Craterclaw Colossus, Depthshaker Titan, and Nettlecyst, or to trigger high-volume pings from Reckless Fireweaver and Weftstalker Ardent. Card advantage is sustained through power-based draw spells like Rishkar's Expertise and engines such as The One Ring and Greater Good. The deck achieves critical onset around Turn 5 and typically closes the table by Turn 6 through overwhelming trample damage or doubled token bursts. While it lacks stax and stack counterspells, its fast mana velocity and resilient backup threats make it a potent combat-centric engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Death
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Displaced Dinosaurs
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hall of Tagsin
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Hedron Detonator
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hungering Puppetbeast
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Improvised Arsenal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myth Unbound
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Roxanne, Starfall Savant
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sarinth Greatwurm
  • 1 Sarinth Steelseeker
  • 1 Secluded Starforge
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
  • 1 Tenured Tethermage
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether