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Format: Commander

Commander: Rhys the Redeemed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential Selesnya go-wide tokens and swarm strategy piloted by Rhys the Redeemed. It leverages a low-curve commander to establish early presence, accelerating mana through traditional dorks and enchantment converters like Enduring Vitality. The primary game plan revolves around multiplying token counts exponentially with Rhys, Parallel Lives, and Second Harvest, followed by deploying decisive overrun effects such as Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Collective Blessing, or unblockable assault via Champion of Lambholt. Alternatively, Halo Fountain acts as a potent non-combat win condition. The list boasts comprehensive permanent removal highlighted by Aura Shards and protects its vulnerable battlefield through high-tier instant-speed protection including Flawless Maneuver, Heroic Intervention, and Dawn's Truce. While susceptible to mass exile sweepers and lacking stack-based countermagic, its high density of redundant token producers and rapid rebuild potential ensure consistent mid-game inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armada Wurm
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Battle for Bretagard
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bramble Sovereign
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Collective Blessing
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregation at Dawn
  • 1 Copperhorn Scout
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Druid's Deliverance
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fertile Thicket
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Grove of the Guardian
  • 1 Growing Ranks
  • 1 Halo Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Humble
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Nature's Chosen
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Once Upon a Time
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Plea for Guidance
  • 1 Praetor's Counsel
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Rhys the Redeemed
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Freyalise
  • 1 Song of the Worldsoul
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Sundering Growth
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Vernal Sovereign
  • 1 Wayfaring Temple
  • 1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Worship