Kaalia TBD by kneecocoa

Format: Commander

Commander: Kaalia of the Vast

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive cheat-and-reanimate strategy led by Kaalia of the Vast. The primary game plan accelerates Kaalia onto the battlefield on turn three using two-mana artifact ramp, then declares an attack on turn four to cheat overwhelming Angels, Demons, and Dragons directly onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. The payload includes immediate single-target lethal threats such as Master of Cruelties, game-ending damage multipliers like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight and Archfiend of Despair, and game-locking permanents like Avacyn, Angel of Hope. A secondary reanimation package featuring Entomb, Buried Alive, Reanimate, and Animate Dead, alongside Sneak Attack, provides resilience and alternative routes when Kaalia is removed. The deck defends its combat steps using free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Flawless Maneuver, alongside silence effects from Grand Abolisher. Once a commanding threat is established, asymmetric land destruction via Armageddon or sequential high-damage attacks rapidly eliminates all three opponents over two response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kaalia of the Vast
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loyal Retainers
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon