Aerith

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerith, Last Ancient

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Green-White lifegain midrange deck helmed by Aerith, Last Ancient that floods the board with small creatures, converts ETBs into life, and leverages that life for recursion, +1/+1 counters, and massive combat finishers. The commander is a flexible end-step reanimation engine: any life gain returns a creature to hand, and 7+ life puts it straight onto the battlefield. Primary wins come from go-wide combat via Craterhoof Behemoth, Moonshaker Cavalry, and Blossoming Bogbeast, supported by dense lifegain payoffs like Archangel of Thune, Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn, and Righteous Valkyrie. Secondary lines include graveyard loops with Saffi Eriksdotter, Karmic Guide, and Altar of Dementia for infinite mill, plus value recursion through Sun Titan and Six. The deck plays as a resilient creature engine that rebuilds through wipes and grinds opponents out with ever-growing boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aerith Gainsborough
• 1 Aerith, Last Ancient
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archangel of Thune
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Blossoming Tortoise
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Carpet of Flowers
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Dauntless Escort
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 5 Forest
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Market
• 1 Horizon Canopy
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
• 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Knight of Autumn
• 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
• 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Mirari's Wake
• 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Renegade Rallier
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Righteous Valkyrie
• 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1 Samwise Gamgee
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Savannah
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1 Sigarda, Font of Blessings
• 1 Six
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Soul's Attendant
• 1 Sun Titan
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Cabbage Merchant
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Queen of Dale
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Titan of Industry
• 1 Tocasia's Welcome
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Voice of Resurgence
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Bastion
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth