Bestow Curse by Hunterc435

Format: Commander

Commander: Kestia, the Cultivator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Bant enchantress/aura voltron deck is commanded by Kestia, the Cultivator, whose attack trigger draws cards whenever an enchanted creature or enchantment creature attacks. The primary plan is to suit up Kestia with a dense stack of Auras and Bestow creatures, turning her into a large, evasive threat that refuels your hand each combat. A secondary lock win condition exists via Decree of Silence + Solemnity, which blanks all opponent spells indefinitely. The deck is almost entirely enchantment-based (76% of the nonland deck), making it highly synergistic with Kestia's trigger but also extremely vulnerable to mass enchantment removal. Card advantage is almost exclusively tied to the commander's attack trigger, and the tutor suite is thin (only two narrow enchantment searchers). The deck wins through commander damage or the lock, but lacks ramp, protection, and recursion, making it fragile and slow.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Archery Training
  • 1 Auramancer's Guise
  • 1 Awakened Awareness
  • 1 Backfire
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Bewitching Leechcraft
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Boon Satyr
  • 1 Bubble Snare
  • 1 Buried in the Garden
  • 1 Candletrap
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cartouche of Solidarity
  • 1 Celestial Archon
  • 1 Cessation
  • 1 Charisma
  • 1 Cho-Manno's Blessing
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crown of the Ages
  • 1 Curse of Clinging Webs
  • 1 Curse of Exhaustion
  • 1 Curse of Silence
  • 1 Curse of Unbinding
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Dominating Licid
  • 1 Eidolon of Countless Battles
  • 1 Flitterstep Eidolon
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Fresh Start
  • 1 Glyph Elemental
  • 1 Heliod's Emissary
  • 1 Hopeful Eidolon
  • 1 Hypnotic Siren
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kestia, the Cultivator
  • 1 Leafcrown Dryad
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Nimbus Naiad
  • 1 Nylea's Emissary
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Nyxborn Shieldmate
  • 1 Nyxborn Triton
  • 1 Nyxborn Unicorn
  • 1 Nyxborn Wolf
  • 1 Observant Alseid
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Overwhelming Splendor
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Radiant Grace // Radiant Restraints
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Thassa's Emissary
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trickster's Elk
  • 1 Triton Wavebreaker