HAMSTER STYLE by user1595896

Format: Commander

Commander: Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul aggro-midrange build piloted by Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes. The core game plan accelerates mana on turns 1 and 2 to cast the commander on turn 3. Once deployed, Minsc & Boo creates and grows Boo, a legendary Hamster with trample and haste. On turn 4, Boo grows into a 7/7 or larger attacker, deals heavy trample damage, and is sacrificed via Minsc & Boo's -2 loyalty ability to burn an opposing target and draw a fresh hand of 7 or more cards. The deck leverages this massive card influx to deploy explosive power doublers such as Xenagos, God of Revels, Kalonian Hydra, and Chandra's Ignition, closing out the game across turns 5 and 6. A robust package of 1-mana dorks, flexible removal, and efficient redirection spells ensures rapid deployment and resilient execution against opposing disruption.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels