NOW THAT WE’RE MEN: TERRORS OF THE TRENCH by Hyman_2575

Format: Commander

Commander: Jodah, the Unifier

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color legendary tribal aggro deck commanded by Jodah, the Unifier. The primary strategy focuses on ramping quickly into all five colors on Turns 1 through 3 using versatile mana dorks and color-fixing spells. On Turn 4, you deploy Jodah, immediately establishing a cascading engine and a scaling anthem that buffs every legendary creature you control. On Turn 5, casting subsequent legendary spells triggers Jodah's pseudo-cascade, putting additional legendary threats onto the battlefield for free and rapidly creating 30 to 50+ total power. The deck converts this overwhelming board presence into game-ending combat damage across Turns 6 and 7. Elite free protection spells like Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Flawless Maneuver defend Jodah and your board state while tapping out for massive threats. If Jodah is removed or unavailable, heavy-hitting legends like Atraxa, Grand Unifier, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, and Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus provide robust standalone backup beatdown routes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
  • 1 Barktooth Warbeard
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Captain Sisay
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Charix, the Raging Isle
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grolnok, the Omnivore
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jodah, the Unifier
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polukranos, Unchained
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
  • 1 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Slimefoot and Squee
  • 1 Slogurk, the Overslime
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Mimeoplasm
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Vishgraz, the Doomhive
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus