Hakbal (brewing) by RinLoch

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a highly optimized Simic Merfolk tribal strategy led by Hakbal of the Surging Soul. The primary game plan centers on a "Landfall-Aggro" hybrid, leveraging Hakbal s combat trigger to mass-explore, which simultaneously thins the deck of lands, buffs the board with +1/+1 counters, and provides immense card advantage. The deck utilizes these counters to fuel win conditions like Simic Ascendancy or to enable unblockable alpha strikes via Herald of Secret Streams and Master of the Pearl Trident. A notable high-power inclusion is the Wanderwine Prophets + Deeproot Pilgrimage (or other token generators) loop for infinite turns. Hakbal acts as both the engine and the gas, providing ramp and draw from the command zone, while the supporting cast of Merfolk provides a dense web of synergistic protection and stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Benthic Biomancer
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deeproot Elite
• 1 Deeproot Historian
• 1 Deeproot Pilgrimage
• 1 Deeproot Waters
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Emperor Mihail II
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Floodpits Drowner
• 1 Force of Negation
• 5 Forest
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
• 1 Harbinger of the Seas
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Intruder Alarm
• 10 Island
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1 Merfolk Cave-Diver
• 1 Merfolk Mistbinder
• 1 Merfolk Skydiver
• 1 Merfolk Sovereign
• 1 Merfolk Trickster
• 1 Merrow Harbinger
• 1 Merrow Reejerey
• 1 Mist Dancer
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Multiversal Passage
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Repulsive Mutation
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Seafloor Oracle
• 1 Secret Tunnel
• 1 Silvergill Mentor
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Singer of Swift Rivers
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stonybrook Banneret
• 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Thieving Skydiver
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
• 1 Topography Tracker
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1 Wanderwine Prophets
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker