Harvey's Hakbal by Scrivs

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Simic Merfolk tribal deck that leverages +1/+1 counters and the explore mechanic through its commander, Hakbal of the Surging Soul. The primary game plan is to flood the battlefield with Merfolk, use Hakbal's combat-triggered explore to pump the team and rack up card advantage, then finish via an unblockable combat swarm (thanks to islandwalk and Herald of Secret Streams) or a sudden Triumph of the Hordes infect strike. The deck also has a slow alternate win condition in Simic Ascendancy. It is a classic tribal value engine-consistent on its axis but light on tutors, stack interaction, and fast mana, making it a solid midrange strategy that wins through incremental advantage and a wide, protected board.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Benthic Biomancer
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Coralhelm Commander
• 1 Curse of the Swine
• 1 Deepchannel Mentor
• 1 Deeproot Elite
• 1 Deeproot Historian
• 1 Deeproot Pilgrimage
• 1 Deeproot Waters
• 1 Emperor Mihail II
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 7 Forest
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 13 Island
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Lord of Atlantis
• 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1 Merfolk Cave-Diver
• 1 Merfolk Mistbinder
• 1 Merfolk Skydiver
• 1 Merfolk Sovereign
• 1 Merrow Reejerey
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Mist Dancer
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 1 Murkfiend Liege
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Quandrix Command
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Ripples of Potential
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sage of Fables
• 1 Seafloor Oracle
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Singer of Swift Rivers
• 1 Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stonybrook Banneret
• 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1 Thieving Skydiver
• 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
• 1 Topography Tracker
• 1 Tributary Instructor
• 1 Triumph of the Hordes
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1 Wave Goodbye
• 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker