hak claude by cluelessgunner

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Simic Merfolk tribal midrange strategy commanded by Hakbal of the Surging Soul. The game plan revolves around curving out early low-cost Merfolk, resolving Hakbal on Turn 3 or 4, and utilizing his combat trigger to explore across the entire team. Explore provides dual value by smoothing land drops directly into hand and stacking +1/+1 counters onto creatures while sculpting future draws. As the board swells, the deck transitions into lethal combat damage using evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams, islandwalk lords such as Lord of Atlantis, or overwhelming stat multipliers like Coat of Arms. The list supports its proactive aggression with dense, efficient 1-mana interaction and board-protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Ripples of Potential to resist sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursecatcher
  • 1 Deepfathom Echo
  • 1 Deeproot Elite
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emperor Mihail II
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forerunner of the Heralds
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
  • 1 Harbinger of the Tides
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jadelight Ranger
  • 1 Jadelight Spelunker
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
  • 1 Kumena's Speaker
  • 1 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of Atlantis
  • 1 Lullmage Mentor
  • 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
  • 1 Merfolk Branchwalker
  • 1 Merfolk Mistbinder
  • 1 Merfolk Skydiver
  • 1 Merfolk Sovereign
  • 1 Merfolk Trickster
  • 1 Merrow Reejerey
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Seafloor Oracle
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Silvergill Adept
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Topography Tracker
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker