Kaalia by Commlink

Format: Commander

Commander: Kaalia of the Vast

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Mardu combat and reanimator strategy powered by Kaalia of the Vast. The primary game plan accelerates into a Turn 3 or Turn 4 Kaalia, immediately converting combat declarations into free deployments of massive Angels, Demons, and Dragons. High-priority cheat targets include Master of Cruelties for single-target player eliminations, Archfiend of Despair and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight for exponential damage amplification, and Avacyn, Angel of Hope for board-wide resilience. A deep reanimation package featuring Entomb, Buried Alive, Reanimate, and Animate Dead provides a robust alternative engine, cheating the same lethal threats into play even if Kaalia is removed or countered. The list also leverages asymmetric disruption through Archon of Emeria and Eidolon of Rhetoric, breaking Rule of Law parity by putting creatures directly onto the battlefield without casting. Supported by cheap interaction and protection like Lightning Greaves and Boros Charm, the deck rapidly closes games through overwhelming aerial pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier
• 1 Archfiend of Despair
• 1 Archivist of Oghma
• 1 Archon of Emeria
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Balefire Dragon
• 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloodthirster
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cathartic Reunion
• 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demonic Counsel
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Dragon Tempest
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Force of Despair
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hoarding Broodlord
• 1 Incarnation Technique
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Kaalia of the Vast
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Loran's Escape
• 1 Lord of the Void
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Master of Cruelties
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 2 Plains
• 1 Pyroblast
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Red Elemental Blast
• 1 Reya Dawnbringer
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Serra's Emissary
• 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sneak Attack
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Stitch Together
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 War Room
• 1 Will of the Abzan
• 1 Witch's Cottage