trap card by user5407030

Format: Commander

Commander: Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is led by Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer, focusing on face-down creature mechanics including morph, megamorph, disguise, and manifest dread. The primary game plan accelerates into Kadena on Turn 3 or 4, unlocking a recurring {3} mana discount on the first face-down creature cast each turn alongside automatic card draw. By combining this engine with flash enablers like Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter and Skittering Cicada, the deck deploys free 2/2 creatures and draws fresh cards on opponents' turns. A diverse suite of morph creatures serves as hidden, uncounterable interaction on the stack and battlefield, featuring countermagic, redirect effects, and permanent removal. The deck amasses a wide board of creatures before converting them into a lethal clock around Turn 6 using overrun payoffs like Beastmaster Ascension, Finale of Devastation, or asymmetric board dominance from Toxrill, the Corrosive.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Ainok Survivalist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
  • 1 Branchsnap Lorian
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coral Trickster
  • 1 Curator Beastie
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathmist Raptor
  • 1 Den Protector
  • 1 Dulcet Sirens
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Emergent Ultimatum
  • 1 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exit Specialist
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gift of Doom
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hauntwoods Shrieker
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kadena's Silencer
  • 1 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Monastery Flock
  • 1 Nantuko Vigilante
  • 1 Oblivious Bookworm
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overgrown Zealot
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primordial Mist
  • 1 Printlifter Ooze
  • 1 Proteus Machine
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ruthless Ripper
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silumgar Assassin
  • 1 Skittering Cicada
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stratus Dancer
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temur Charger
  • 1 The Blue Spirit
  • 1 They Came from the Pipes
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thoughtpicker Witch
  • 1 Threats Around Every Corner
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Ugin's Mastery
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
  • 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Voidmage Apprentice
  • 1 Voidmage Prodigy
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whisperwood Elemental
  • 1 Willbender
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler