Reyhan & Bruse - Counters

Format: Commander

Commander: Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder and Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color +1/+1 counters aggressive midrange deck led by Reyhan, Last of the Abzan and Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder. The primary game plan accelerates mana in the early turns, establishes counter-modifying engines like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution, and deploys Reyhan to secure counter equity. Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder acts as a lethal combat multiplier, granting double strike and lifelink to heavily buffed creatures to eliminate opponents in massive combat swings while gaining large life buffers. Evasion enablers such as Abzan Falconer and Garruk's Uprising ensure damage connects across wide boards. The deck also contains an untutored infinite token combo using Cathars' Crusade with Scurry Oak or Herd Baloth. While resilient against spot removal thanks to The Ozolith and Reyhan's death triggers, the deck is light on reactive interaction and vulnerable to mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Battle Priest
  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
  • 1 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clockwork Hydra
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conclave Mentor
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Enduring Scalelord
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herd Baloth
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Quirion Beastcaller
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Shalai and Hallar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Tuskguard Captain
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Winding Constrictor