Fantastic Four by BabyLouie_24

Format: Commander

Commander: The Thing

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This four-color midrange deck combines noncreature spellslinging with aggressive combat scaling centered around The Thing. During the early turns, the deck fixes its mana and deploys cost reducers or value engines such as Artist's Talent, Valeria Richards, and Whirlwind of Thought. Once The Thing enters the battlefield, any cheap noncreature spell triggers its combat ability to place four +1/+1 counters on it. When attacking, paying its four-color activation cost doubles those counters, turning the commander into an 18/18 trampler immediately, scaling to 44/44 on the next turn, and dealing lethal commander damage in single attacks. The rest of the 99 supports this plan with token generators like Namor, damage distributors like Human Torch, and board protection like Clever Concealment. While the deck lacks fast combo finishes, its exponential power growth and broad card flow maintain steady pressure across the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Bolt, Inhuman King
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bring to Light
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Crucible
  • 1 Council of Reeds
  • 1 Crystal, Inhuman Princess
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Endless Detour
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fantastic Elasticity
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 First Family
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Franklin Richards, Ascendant
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Human Torch
  • 1 Into the Time Vortex
  • 1 Invisible Force Field
  • 1 Invisible Woman
  • 1 Iron Lad, Young Avenger
  • 4 Island
  • 1 It's Clobberin' Time!
  • 1 Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lockjaw, Slobbering Teleporter
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Make Your Own Luck
  • 1 Mister Fantastic
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Namor, Atlantean King
  • 1 Nova Flame
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Recurring Insight
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Fantasticar
  • 1 The Thing
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Unstable Molecule Suit
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Willie Lumpkin, Postman
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills