hak by LeoMahnnen

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic Merfolk tribal deck helmed by Hakbal of the Surging Soul, built around the explore mechanic to grow a wide, unblockable board while ramping lands and drawing cards. The primary plan is to flood the battlefield with Merfolk lords, token generators, and +1/+1 counter synergies, then finish with an overwhelming combat step powered by Overwhelming Stampede or the unblockable threat of Herald of Secret Streams. Hakbal's explore trigger is the engine: it puts lands into play, draws cards, and stacks counters on the team. Secondary lines include Summon: Leviathan as a one-sided board reset and Prime Speaker Zegana for a massive draw burst. The deck is a classic value-tribal build that wins through incremental advantage and a single explosive turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Attuma, Atlantean Warlord
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Daughter of the Deep
• 1 Deeproot Elite
• 1 Deeproot Pilgrimage
• 1 Deeproot Waters
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Entish Restoration
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 6 Forest
• 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
• 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 14 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1 Lord of Atlantis
• 1 Mana Sculpt
• 1 Merfolk Cave-Diver
• 1 Merfolk Sovereign
• 1 Merrow Reejerey
• 1 Metallic Mimic
• 1 Mist Dancer
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Namor the Sub-Mariner
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Raise Repulsor Shields
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Repulsive Mutation
• 1 Ripples of Potential
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Seafloor Oracle
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Silvergill Mentor
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Singer of Swift Rivers
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Stonybrook Banneret
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Summer Bloom
• 1 Summon: Leviathan
• 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 Thieving Skydiver
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
• 1 Topography Tracker
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1 Wash Away
• 1 Wave Goodbye
• 1 Wildgrowth Walker
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Yavimaya Coast