Arf Arf by user8192718

Format: Commander

Commander: Pako, Arcane Retriever and Haldan, Avid Arcanist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Temur Voltron deck powered by the partner pairing of Pako, Arcane Retriever and Haldan, Avid Arcanist. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Pako ahead of curve on Turn 3 using an extensive suite of low-cost mana dorks, land auras, and burst rituals. Pako attacks immediately due to haste, exiling four cards per swing and accumulating +1/+1 counters for every noncreature spell revealed. The deck protects its primary threat with over a dozen efficient instant-speed hexproof and indestructible spells while using burst damage effects like Temur Battle Rage, Invigorating Surge, and Choose Your Weapon to eliminate opponents in rapid succession. Haldan acts as a secondary engine, converting exiled lands and noncreature spells into a massive, persistent card advantage pool. While reliant on Pako for combat lethality, the deck's dense redundancy in protection and acceleration makes it exceptionally resilient against conventional removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breath of Darigaaz
  • 1 Cartouche of Strength
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Choose Your Weapon
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Tide
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Dire-Strain Rampage
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fae Flight
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Generator Servant
  • 1 Haldan, Avid Arcanist
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hunter's Talent
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Last Night Together
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Pako, Arcane Retriever
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Reclaim
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Satyr Hedonist
  • 1 Secret Identity
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sidequest: Play Blitzball // World Champion, Celestial Weapon
  • 1 Siege Smash
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Rupture
  • 1 Storm's Wrath
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sword Coast Sailor
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Trash the Town
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Meteor
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Secrecy
  • 1 Vessel of Volatility
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 You Come to a River
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach