Higher Ping by aerialviolet

Format: Commander

Commander: Hawkeye, Young Avenger

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck harnesses Hawkeye, Young Avenger as a commander damage multiplier that converts modest power boosts into catastrophic table-wide burn. By casting cheap pump spells such as Titan's Strength, Brute Force, and Bulk Up, Hawkeye's power rapidly scales, causing symmetrical pingers and cheap burn spells like End the Festivities and Boltwave to deal massive damage to each opponent simultaneously. Complementing this burst potential is a group-slug package featuring Manabarbs, Burning Earth, and Harsh Mentor, which punish standard opponent actions with escalated damage triggers. The deck accelerates into a Turn 4 Hawkeye deployment and executes a critical Turn 5 onset, dealing 15 to 20 damage per opponent while wiping utility creatures. While vulnerable to spot removal targeting Hawkeye and possessing minimal enchantment removal, the deck compresses the table's life totals with relentless velocity, aiming to close the game on Turn 6 after a single opponent response cycle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Emberheart Challenger
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haste Magic
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 27 Mountain
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyre Rhymer // Molten Tide
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Siege Smash
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Titan's Strength
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wiccan, Young Avenger