adam’s frog

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant big-mana engine helmed by Helga, Skittish Seer. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns with low-cost mana dorks to deploy Helga on Turn 2. Once on the battlefield, casting creatures with mana value 4 or greater draws cards, gains life, and places +1/+1 counters on Helga. Helga then taps for mana equal to her power, creating a self-fueling loop that chains massive creatures, untap effects, and draw triggers in a single turn. Untappers like Chakram Retriever and Intruder Alarm maximize mana generation, while top-end bombs like Apex Devastator and Vaultborn Tyrant flood the board with overwhelming stats. The deck closes games on Turn 6 by overwhelming all three opponents with trample and haste via End-Raze Forerunners or executing infinite mana loops with Emiel the Blessed and Peregrine Drake.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Mystic Snake
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast