Hylda by user5657308

Format: Commander

Commander: Hylda of the Icy Crown

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Hylda is a tap-matters value engine: the deck's cheap tappers (Goldmeadow Harrier, Law-Rune Enforcer, Hylda's Crown of Winter) and mass-tap spells convert every tapped opponent creature into 4/4 Elementals, +1/+1 counters, or cards. The main plan is to control combat with tap outlets, then overwhelm with a growing token army; the Rhoda/Timin partner pair in the 99 acts as a hidden backup commander that rewards the same taps with counters and an extra body. Secondary lines include a Winter Orb/Static Orb soft lock, a Sunblast Angel tempo wipe, and Zethi/instant recursion. The deck is slow and commander-reliant, but consistent at establishing a tap-lock before the final attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Bond of Discipline
  • 1 Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
  • 1 Citadel Siege
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cone of Cold
  • 1 Court Street Denizen
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 D'Avenant Trapper
  • 1 Dreamshackle Geist
  • 1 Elvish Mariner
  • 1 Ensnare
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frost Titan
  • 1 Frostbridge Guard
  • 1 Gadwick, the Wizened
  • 1 Gavony Trapper
  • 1 Giant Killer // Chop Down
  • 1 Gideon's Lawkeeper
  • 1 Githzerai Monk
  • 1 Glacial Floodplain
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goldmeadow Harrier
  • 1 Hammers of Moradin
  • 1 Hidden Strings
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Hylda's Crown of Winter
  • 1 Ice Floe
  • 1 Ice Out
  • 1 Icebind Pillar
  • 1 Icy Manipulator
  • 1 In Too Deep
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Law-Rune Enforcer
  • 1 Lossarnach Captain
  • 1 Minister of Impediments
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Opposition
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
  • 1 Public Enemy
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Rhoda, Geist Avenger
  • 1 Scepter of Dominance
  • 1 Sharae of Numbing Depths
  • 12 Snow-Covered Island
  • 12 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stasis Field
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 1 Succumb to the Cold
  • 1 Sunblast Angel
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Timin, Youthful Geist
  • 1 Urza's Rebuff
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach
  • 1 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster