Cycle Scourge by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Commander: Karona, False God

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a five-color high-mana value deck that treats Karona, False God as a haste-enabled tribal pump rather than a combo piece. The primary plan is to assemble a board of expensive Beasts, Soldiers, Zombies, and Goblins, use the Warchief cost-reducers and Dragon auras to get ahead, then win through combat after an MV-based payoff such as Rush of Knowledge or Torrent of Fire, or a Decree of Annihilation reset. There is no true hidden commander; Kianne, Corrupted Memory acts as a sub-commander flash engine. Secondary paths use Lotuslight Dancers to stock the graveyard with black, green, and blue cards and Kheru Lich Lord to recur hasty threats, while storm spells provide utility. The deck is slow, grindy, and soft to opponents who can remove Karona.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accelerated Mutation
  • 1 Ankle Shanker
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armament Corps
  • 1 Astral Steel
  • 1 Bant Sojourners
  • 1 Bant Sureblade
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabal Conditioning
  • 1 Chartooth Cougar
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Daru Warchief
  • 1 Decree of Annihilation
  • 1 Decree of Justice
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Decree of Savagery
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Dispersal Shield
  • 1 Dragon Breath
  • 1 Dragon Fangs
  • 1 Dragon Scales
  • 1 Dragon Shadow
  • 1 Dragon Wings
  • 1 Dreadwing
  • 1 Elvish Aberration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fungal Shambler
  • 1 Giltspire Avenger
  • 1 Gloryscale Viashino
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Godsire
  • 1 Grixis Grimblade
  • 1 Grixis Sojourners
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hindering Touch
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Illusory Demon
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jund Hackblade
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karona, False God
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kheru Lich Lord
  • 1 Kianne, Corrupted Memory
  • 1 Krosan Warchief
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Meglonoth
  • 1 Mistform Warchief
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nightscape Apprentice
  • 1 Nightscape Battlemage
  • 1 Nightscape Master
  • 1 Noble Templar
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phantasmal Fiend
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ponyback Brigade
  • 1 Rakeclaw Gargantuan
  • 1 Realm Razer
  • 1 Reaping the Graves
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reward the Faithful
  • 1 Rush of Knowledge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scattershot
  • 1 Scornful Aether-Lich
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Sewn-Eye Drake
  • 1 Shoreline Ranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sprouting Vines
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sultai Devotee
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temur Tawnyback
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Torrent of Fire
  • 1 Twisted Abomination
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Waveskimmer Aven
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woolly Thoctar
  • 1 Zagoth Triome