Try Hard by 1MESSENGER1

Format: Commander

Creator: 1MESSENGER1

Commander: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 90

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive EDH list built around five-color utility, explosive mana acceleration, and hyper-efficient win conditions. Commanded by Kenrith, the Returned King, the deck leverages its commander primarily as an infinite mana outlet, recursion piece, and card-draw engine in the command zone. Its primary win condition is the compact Thassa's Oracle package paired with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, capable of closing games as early as Turn 2 or 3. Backed by format-ceiling fast mana rocks like Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, and Mana Vault, the list powers out robust silence effects such as Grand Abolisher and Silence before executing its combo. Should primary lines be disrupted, secondary engines utilizing Hermit Druid (with a zero-basic land base), Isochron Scepter plus Dramatic Reversal, or Bloom Tender with Freed from the Real provide redundant paths to infinite mana, allowing Kenrith to draw the library and win on the spot.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bitter Ordeal
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Minor Misstep
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shallow Grave
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Veilstone Amulet
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor