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Format: Commander

Commander: Hylda of the Icy Crown

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Hylda of the Icy Crown leads this Azorius tap-control deck. The primary plan is to repeatedly tap opponents' creatures with cheap instants and reusable abilities, then convert those taps into 4/4 Elemental tokens, +1/+1 counters, or cards through Hylda's trigger. The secondary plan is a control shell with counterspells, removal, and a Sunblast Angel blowout, finishing through a token swarm or an oversized Rhoda, Geist Avenger. Timin and Rhoda in the 99 form a hidden partner engine that keeps the tap theme online even if Hylda is taxed or unavailable. The deck has no true combo and wins by incremental board advantage and combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abjure
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Gauntlet
  • 1 Blinding Light
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Bond of Discipline
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choking Tethers
  • 1 Citadel Siege
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court Street Denizen
  • 1 Dazzling Beauty
  • 1 Deluge
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Downpour
  • 1 Dreamshackle Geist
  • 1 Eddymurk Crab
  • 1 Elvish Mariner
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Floodpits Drowner
  • 1 Gadwick, the Wizened
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Githzerai Monk
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goldmeadow Harrier
  • 1 Grappling Kraken
  • 1 Gridlock
  • 1 Hammers of Moradin
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Hylda's Crown of Winter
  • 1 Icy Blast
  • 1 Icy Manipulator
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Makindi Ox
  • 1 Minister of Impediments
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Opposition
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Plunge into Winter
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pressure Point
  • 1 Procrastinate
  • 1 Refocus
  • 1 Replicating Ring
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhoda, Geist Avenger
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stall for Time
  • 1 Succumb to the Cold
  • 1 Summon: Shiva
  • 1 Sunblast Angel
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
  • 1 Theft of Dreams
  • 1 Timin, Youthful Geist
  • 1 Topplegeist
  • 1 Turnabout
  • 1 Urza's Rebuff
  • 1 Verity Circle