Mayael the Anima by Teshypoo

Format: Commander

Commander: Mayael the Anima

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya creature-cheat and big-mana stompy strategy commanded by Mayael the Anima. The game plan accelerates through early Elf mana dorks and land-ramp spells to reach six mana quickly. Once assembled, Mayael activates at instant speed on opponent end steps, digging five cards deep to deploy massive creatures with power 5 or greater directly onto the battlefield without paying their mana costs. The threat suite includes board-dominating beaters such as Godsire, Elder Gargaroth, and Quartzwood Crasher, backed by game-ending overruns like Craterhoof Behemoth. In addition to combat beatdown, the deck includes a two-card infinite creature combo featuring Herd Baloth and Ivy Lane Denizen, creating an arbitrary number of 4/4 Beast tokens. Strong recovery options, redundant cheat artifacts like Quicksilver Amulet, and targeted protection equipment ensure the deck consistently applies lethal pressure across the table by Turns 5 and 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Champions of the Perfect
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Coliseum Behemoth
• 1 Colossification
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contested Cliffs
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Elder Gargaroth
• 1 Elemental Bond
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elvish Archdruid
• 1 Elvish Harbinger
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Piper
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Farhaven Elf
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 5 Forest
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Packleader
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Godsire
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Herd Baloth
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1 Jungle Shrine
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
• 1 Mayael the Anima
• 1 Mayael's Aria
• 1 Meglonoth
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Naya Charm
• 1 Paleoloth
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path to Exile
• 5 Plains
• 1 Quartzwood Crasher
• 1 Quicksilver Amulet
• 1 Rakeclaw Gargantuan
• 1 Rampaging Baloths
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ravenous Baloth
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sandwurm Convergence
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Sungrass Prairie
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Sunscorched Divide
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Thornbite Staff
• 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1 Vagrant Plowbeasts
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Web of Life and Destiny