playing in the dirt by stcryptic

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerid Konstrari

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul midrange strategy led by Aerid Konstrari, focusing on artifact token generation, mana acceleration, and high-impact evasive combat. The deck leverages Treasure and Heartwood tokens to ramp into explosive plays, utilizing Aerid's activated pump ability alongside power-doubling equipment like Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor and team-wide buffs from Craterclaw Colossus and Tyvar, the Pummeler. It features strong targeted protection via Deflecting Swat, Bolt Bend, and Lightning Greaves to keep its primary threat on the battlefield. While the deck contains a lethal infinite combat line with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Fear of Missing Out, it primarily operates as an honest combat deck that closes games through sequential commander damage, wide artifact scaling, and direct burn finishers like Fling and Kazuul's Fury.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Agate Assault
  • 1 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Artifist Acumen
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Budding Insurgent
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Compel Brutality
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Hoarder's Overflow
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Konstrari Charm
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Koth, the Geomancer
  • 1 Lifestream's Blessing
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
  • 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
  • 1 Popular Entertainer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restore with Empathy
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Tenured Tethermage
  • 1 The Echoverse Fulcrum
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Zuko, Exiled Prince