Blanka, Ferocious Friend by AmbiguousGoop

Format: Commander

Commander: The Howling Abomination

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul storm-combo list built around The Howling Abomination. The main strategy accelerates into the commander on turn 2 or 3 using format-ceiling fast mana rocks and rituals. Once the commander enters the battlefield, enchanting it with Keen Sense or Snake Umbra turns every targeting spell into a 3-card draw engine and a 2-damage burn trigger to each opponent. The deck chains 1-mana protection, pump, and cantrip spells to draw through the library while Storm-Kiln Artist or Underworld Breach supplies continuous mana. This sequence burns out all three opponents in a single turn without passing priority. If the commander is answered, backup lines through Venerated Rotpriest or Underworld Breach storm provide fast alternate wins.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jeska, Thrice Reborn
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Leyline of Resonance
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mutagenic Growth
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychotic Fury
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 The Howling Abomination
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Venerated Rotpriest
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Vines of Vastwood
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Defiance
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth