kaalia by user3023512

Format: Commander

Commander: Kaalia of the Vast

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Kaalia of the Vast to bypass the high mana costs of formidable Angels, Demons, and Dragons. Supported by efficient 2-mana artifact acceleration and haste enablers like Lightning Greaves, Kaalia consistently attacks by Turn 4. Upon attacking, she cheats devastating creatures directly into combat. Master of Cruelties provides a sudden one-shot player elimination, while threats like Archfiend of Despair, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, and Aurelia, the Warleader multiply combat damage across subsequent turns to close the game by Turn 6. To protect its fragile 2/2 commander, the deck runs dense defensive tools such as Deflecting Swat, Flawless Maneuver, and Grand Abolisher. If Kaalia is answered, a built-in reanimation package featuring Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Buried Alive serves as a reliable secondary engine to sustain high-pressure board states without stalling.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kaalia of the Vast
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Wear // Tear