partner lifegain tomfoolery by mattphil17

Format: Commander

Commander: Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a four-color (WBRG) lifegain deck built around the partner pair Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper. The plan is to ramp into both commanders and turn combat into massive life swings: Bruse grants double strike and lifelink, while Ikra converts the toughness of every attacking creature into life. That life total is then cashed in through alternate win conditions: Felidar Sovereign, Angel of Destiny, Aetherflux Reservoir, or the Exquisite Blood + Professor Dellian Fel emblem drain loop. Gollum, Obsessed Stalker adds a table-wide end-step drain that can kill multiple opponents in a single big lifegain turn. The deck is a midrange value pile with strong lifegain redundancy, light recursion, and no counterspells; it wins by outlasting the table and converting its life advantage into a game-ending trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Bre of Clan Stoutarm
  • 1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heliod, God of the Sun
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Iroas, God of Victory
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tainted Sigil
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor