Good Honest Magic (Helga) by user2808611

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant stompy and creature-chain engine led by Helga, Skittish Seer. The game plan focuses on casting creatures with mana value 4 or greater to trigger Helga, drawing cards, gaining life, and growing her power to generate massive mana. The deck accelerates through early ramp on turns 1 and 2, lands Helga on turn 3, and begins chaining large creatures on turn 4. By turn 5, it floods the board with high-impact threats like Apex Devastator, Railway Brawler, and Defiler of Vigor. On turn 6, the deck converts this board presence into a full-table elimination using overrun effects like Craterhoof Behemoth or unblockability from Herald of Secret Streams. The deck defends its board with versatile phasing protection like Clever Concealment and maintains resilience through redundant draw engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chakram Retriever
• 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Collective Resistance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Darksteel Mutation
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Defiler of Vigor
• 1 Emeria Shepherd
• 1 Erode
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 13 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Foundation Breaker
• 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghalta and Mavren
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 High Score
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Homeward Path
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 8 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perplexing Test
• 6 Plains
• 1 Railway Brawler
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rest in Peace
• 1 Ripples of Potential
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunfall
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Thraben Charm
• 1 Titan of Industry
• 1 Twenty-Toed Toad