Mothman by user9800510

Format: Commander

Creator: user9800510

Commander: The Wise Mothman

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is led by The Wise Mothman, blending mill strategies with +1/+1 counter beatdown. The primary strategy deploys the commander on Turn 4 to distribute radiation counters across the table. When players mill nonland cards during their precombat main phases, Mothman distributes +1/+1 counters onto your creatures, rapidly creating a large, evasive army. Combat enablers such as Herald of Secret Streams and Kodama of the West Tree turn these massive stats into unblockable or trampling alpha strikes, backed by burn from Syr Konrad, the Grim. A latent infinite mill/drain combo exists with Mindcrank alongside Bloodchief Ascension or Duskmantle Guildmage, providing an alternative victory condition if naturally drawn. While resilient in long grindy games due to graveyard interactions from Muldrotha, the Gravetide and Crucible of Worlds, the deck lacks dedicated tutors, running primarily on natural synergy and combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bloatfly Swarm
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Dreamborn Muse
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Feral Ghoul
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Glowing One
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Infesting Radroach
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lily Bowen, Raging Grandma
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mariposa Military Base
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nightkin Ambusher
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Power Fist
  • 1 Primal Rage
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raul, Trouble Shooter
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strong, the Brutish Thespian
  • 1 Struggle for Project Purity
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tato Farmer
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Vexing Radgull
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper