Bladesinging by Imposhibible

Format: Commander

Commander: Terra, Herald of Hope

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Mardu deck utilizes Terra, Herald of Hope as a repeatable, combat-driven reanimation engine. The game plan focuses on filling the graveyard early using efficient self-mill and looting creatures such as Stitcher's Supplier, Banon, the Returners' Leader, and Fear of Missing Out. Once Terra hits the battlefield, her Trance ability provides flying evasion, allowing her to connect for combat damage and reanimate utility creatures with power 3 or less for {2} mana. The deck builds massive board presence by recurring disruptive pieces like Accursed Marauder and Skyclave Apparition alongside team-wide pump engines like Celes, Rune Knight. It closes games on turn 8 through compounding combat damage with Aurelia, the Warleader, massive graveyard-scaled attackers like Siegfried, Famed Swordsman, or aristocrat drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Banon, the Returners' Leader
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celes, Rune Knight
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Edgar, Master Machinist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hero's Blade
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mog, Moogle Warrior
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Siegfried, Famed Swordsman
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spirited Companion
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terra, Herald of Hope
  • 1 Tersa Lightshatter
  • 1 The Spear of Leonidas
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Umaro, Raging Yeti