Only the Bess by user4976425

Format: Commander

Commander: Bess, Soul Nourisher

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Selesnya go-wide aggressive strategy commanded by Bess, Soul Nourisher. The game plan revolves around generating a massive board of base 1/1 creature tokens through efficient sorceries, instants, and enchantments like Increasing Devotion, Grand Crescendo, and March of the Multitudes. Each entering batch of 1/1 tokens places counters on Bess, which in turn grants an immense anthem buff to the entire army whenever Bess attacks. The deck supports this aggressive core with token and counter multipliers such as Parallel Lives and Hardened Scales, alongside high-velocity draw engines like Skullclamp. While the strategy relies on combat and lacks stack-based combo interaction, it compensates with an elite suite of defensive spells including Flawless Maneuver and Clever Concealment to protect its board against wipes, and secondary finishers like Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery to close games even without the commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Mutation
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bess, Soul Nourisher
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chivalric Alliance
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Intervention
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Horn of Valhalla // Ysgard's Call
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Kamahl's Will
  • 1 Legion Loyalty
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 March of the Multitudes
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Open the Vaults
  • 1 Parallel Evolution
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pendelhaven
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Rabble Rousing
  • 1 Raise the Alarm
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rite of Harmony
  • 1 Scepter of Celebration
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slate of Ancestry
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow