ORKZ by NinjaShark

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Jund Midrange build commanded by Kresh the Bloodbraided. Its main plan is to accelerate mana in the early turns, deploy large creatures or value engines, and leverage creature deaths and combat multipliers to grow Kresh into a lethal threat. The deck features powerful standalone monsters like Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Terastodon, and Inferno Titan, which provide immediate board impact and fuel Kresh with +1/+1 counters when creatures die. Combat enhancers such as Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder, Embercleave, and Mage Slayer allow the deck to eliminate opponents rapidly through trample and commander damage. A comprehensive removal suite consisting of cards like Beast Within, Terminate, and Blasphemous Act controls opposing boards while simultaneously feeding Kresh. While the deck lacks fast combo finishes and instant-speed spell protection, its heavy redundancy, high individual card quality, and secondary beatdown routes ensure steady, punishing pressure throughout the mid-to-late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dodgy Jalopy
  • 1 Dragonborn Champion
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleetwheel Cruiser
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 1 Jund Panorama
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Renegade Freighter
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Siege Modification
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wave of Rats
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan