Valko's Tales by Craike

Format: Commander

Commander: Valko Indorian

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Phyrexian tribal midrange deck enabled by Valko Indorian's rulebreaker, packing Praetors, incubate engines, and proliferate payoffs under a black commander. The plan develops oil/incubator tokens, doubles them with Mondrak, Glory Dominus, and grows the board through proliferate while Valko Indorian grants the team menace and lifelink. Primary wins come from go-wide Phyrexian combat; secondary paths include Praetor value (Sheoldred, Whispering One, Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis), mass reanimation via Patriarch's Bidding or Portal to Phyrexia, and a poison finish through Vraska, Betrayal's Sting. The deck plays as a grindy value engine that out-attributes the table rather than comboing off.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blight Titan
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Compleated Huntmaster
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagious Vorrac
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence of Orthodoxy
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Glissa, Herald of Predation
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Norn's Inquisitor
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Progenitor Exarch
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Throne of Geth
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valko Indorian
  • 1 Vat Emergence
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician