Free? For me? by eonclank

Format: Commander

Commander: Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Voltron and combat-theft strategy commanded by Kotis, the Fangkeeper. Kotis is a 2/1 Zombie Warrior with built-in indestructible that exiles cards from an opponent's library equal to combat damage dealt and casts any number of spells among them with mana value equal to or less than that damage for free. The deck accelerates into Kotis on Turn 3 using dense 1-2 CMC ramp, then equips powerful stat amplifiers like Belt of Giant Strength, Blackblade Reforged, and Wrecking Ball Arm alongside evasion enablers like Aqueous Form and Trailblazer's Boots. By attacking on Turn 5, Kotis presents a fast commander damage clock while stealing opposing spells to build massive board advantage. Protection pieces such as Swiftfoot Boots and Champion's Helm shield Kotis from exile removal as it systematically eliminates the table over successive combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artful Dodge
  • 1 Assassin Gauntlet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Audacity
  • 1 Avarice Amulet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belt of Giant Strength
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Brawler's Plate
  • 1 Cartouche of Strength
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Civic Saber
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystalline Armor
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Death Begets Life
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gemrazer
  • 1 Giant Growth
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hot Soup
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mask of Avacyn
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
  • 1 Might of the Nephilim
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 O-Naginata
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Primal Frenzy
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune of Might
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctuary Blade
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strong Back
  • 1 Sultai Charm
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Vengeance
  • 1 Talons of Wildwood
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Tanuki Transplanter
  • 1 Temur Runemark
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vorrac Battlehorns
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm