Steve Irwin by TheVoice

Format: Commander

Commander: Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai midrange build helmed by Xavier Sal, Infested Captain that synergizes Crocodile tribal elements with +1/+1 counters and token proliferation. The early game focuses on developing mana and establishing early counter-bearing creatures. In the mid-game, Xavier Sal uses tap abilities to populate creature tokens or proliferate counters across the board, steadily growing your attackers. Card advantage engines such as Garruk's Uprising, Hollowmurk Siege, and Primal Empathy keep your hand fueled while you assemble overwhelming board presence. The deck closes out games through combat damage, leveraging large trampling threats like Leatherhead, Iron Gator, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, and Sin, Unending Cataclysm, or delivering wide lethal swings using mass pump spells such as Preposterous Proportions and Germination Practicum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adorned Crocodile
  • 1 Algae Gharial
  • 1 Baleful Ammit
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bioshift
  • 1 Blood Beckoning
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Cat-Gator
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crocanura
  • 1 Crocodile of the Crossing
  • 1 Deathsprout
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dukhara Scavenger
  • 1 Eel Umbra
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Fade into Antiquity
  • 1 Fangkeeper's Familiar
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Foul Orchard
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 Grayscaled Gharial
  • 1 Grim Contest
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Guul Draz Mucklord
  • 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
  • 1 Hagra Constrictor
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Hunt the Weak
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kheru Dreadmaw
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker
  • 1 Lie in Wait
  • 1 Lion Umbra
  • 1 Lurking Crocodile
  • 1 Moldering Karok
  • 1 Needlethorn Drake
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Primal Empathy
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Man Ray
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Savage Land Dinosaur
  • 1 Scaled Behemoth
  • 1 Scuttlegator
  • 1 Sewer Crocodile
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Soaring Seacliff
  • 1 Spider Umbra
  • 1 Spread the Sickness
  • 1 Stonefare Crocodile
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tanglepool Bridge
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tenderize
  • 1 Wardscale Crocodile
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Xavier Sal, Infested Captain