Helga the Seer by DrixStar

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Bant deck uses Helga, Skittish Seer to turn every creature with mana value 4 or greater into card draw, life gain, and growth for Helga, then taps Helga for large amounts of mana to chain more big creatures. The primary plan is value combat: build a wide board of high-impact creatures like Elesh Norn and Nyxbloom Ancient and win through overwhelming attacks. Secondary paths include counter synergy with Hardened Scales and Deepglow Skate to make Helga huge, and a thin Hullbreaker Horror plus Sol Ring bounce loop. Helga is the draw and mana engine; Nyxbloom Ancient acts as a hidden commander for mana explosion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatestitcher
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frilled Mystic
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Karametra, God of Harvests
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Snake
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of Emancipation
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Windshaper Planetar
  • 1 Windswept Heath