Tricky Terrain (Modern Horizons 3 Commander) by cvest100

Format: Commander

Creator: cvest100

Commander: Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is commanded by Omo, Queen of Vesuva, utilizing her everything counters to seamlessly bridge disparate land archetypes including Locus lands, Urza's Tron, Gates, and Deserts into an explosive big-mana engine. By turning any land into a Locus, Cloudpost and Glimmerpost scale exponentially, while Basilisk Gate and Sage of the Maze benefit from artificial Gate counts. The deck leverages this massive mana generation to deploy devastating midrange and late-game payoffs such as Avenger of Zendikar, Apex Devastator, Hydroid Krasis, and the Dark Depths plus Thespian's Stage combo. While resilient against single-target removal due to the durability of land-based ramp and persistent counters, the deck operates primarily at sorcery speed and relies on wide combat steps, leaving it vulnerable to fast combo strategies and repeated mass creature wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aggressive Biomancy
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloudpost
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Land
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Desert Warfare
  • 1 Desert of the Indomitable
  • 1 Desert of the Mindful
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Floriferous Vinewall
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Glimmerpost
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hashep Oasis
  • 1 Hidden Cataract
  • 1 Hidden Nursery
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 1 Hydra Broodmaster
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jyoti, Moag Ancient
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lumbering Falls
  • 1 Lush Oasis
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 March from Velis Vel
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
  • 1 Oblivion Stone
  • 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quandrix Campus
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Frogantua
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Sage of the Maze
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seer's Sundial
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Skullwinder
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 1 Sunken Palace
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Trenchpost
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wonderscape Sage
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth