Upgrades Unleashed Upgraded Precon by cvest100
Format: Commander
Creator: cvest100
Commander: Chishiro, the Shattered Blade
Bracket: 2
DeckCheck Threat Index: 26
Deck overview
This deck is a Gruul midrange strategy led by Chishiro, the Shattered Blade, built around the modified mechanic (Auras, Equipment, and counters). It utilizes 2- and 3-CMC ramp to deploy Chishiro ahead of curve, converting subsequent equipment and enchantments into 2/2 menace Spirit tokens while continuously scaling the team with +1/+1 counters on each end step. Card replenishment comes from burst draw spells scaled to creature power or board width, such as Rishkar's Expertise and Shamanic Revelation. Because the deck operates without infinite combos, it aims to construct an overwhelming board presence by Turn 6, finishing the table across Turns 6 through 8 via combat multipliers like Unnatural Growth, extra combat steps from Akki Battle Squad, and evasion from Champion of Lambholt. Its interaction and protection suites are compact but flexible, requiring careful timing to navigate opposing sweepers.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Acidic Slime
- 1 Akki Battle Squad
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Ascendant Acolyte
- 1 Ashroot Animist
- 1 Bear Umbra
- 1 Beast Within
- 1 Blackblade Reforged
- 1 Champion of Lambholt
- 1 Chaos Warp
- 1 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade
- 1 Cinder Glade
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concord with the Kami
- 1 Cultivate
- 1 Decimate
- 1 Doubling Season
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Fertilid
- 1 Fireshrieker
- 14 Forest
- 1 Forgotten Ancient
- 1 Game Trail
- 1 Garruk's Uprising
- 1 Genesis Hydra
- 1 Grumgully, the Generous
- 1 Guardian Project
- 1 Hardened Scales
- 1 Heroic Intervention
- 1 Hunter's Insight
- 1 Inspiring Call
- 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
- 1 Kaima, the Fractured Calm
- 1 Kami of Celebration
- 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
- 1 Kodama's Reach
- 1 Komainu Battle Armor
- 1 Kosei, Penitent Warlord
- 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Loyal Guardian
- 1 Mage Slayer
- 1 Managorger Hydra
- 1 Mossborn Hydra
- 12 Mountain
- 1 One with the Kami
- 1 Opal Palace
- 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
- 1 Orochi Merge-Keeper
- 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
- 1 Quilled Greatwurm
- 1 Raging Ravine
- 1 Rampant Growth
- 1 Reliquary Tower
- 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
- 1 Rhythm of the Wild
- 1 Rishkar's Expertise
- 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
- 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
- 1 Shamanic Revelation
- 1 Snake Umbra
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Soul's Majesty
- 1 Starstorm
- 1 Swiftfoot Boots
- 1 Sword of Vengeance
- 1 Sylvan Scavenging
- 1 Tanuki Transplanter
- 1 Taurean Mauler
- 1 Temple of Abandon
- 1 Thought Vessel
- 1 Thundering Raiju
- 1 Unnatural Growth
- 1 Unquenchable Fury
- 1 Vastwood Surge
- 1 Whiptongue Hydra