froggy by ClassyDabber

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Bant creature combo-storm engine commanded by Helga, Skittish Seer. The strategy accelerates on Turns 1 and 2 with efficient mana dorks like Birds of Paradise, Noble Hierarch, and Delighted Halfling to deploy Helga ahead of curve. Once Helga enters the battlefield, casting creature spells with mana value 4 or greater draws cards, gains life, and grows Helga's power, turning her into a massive mana engine. The deck converts this mana and card velocity into game-ending infinite loops using untap auras like Freed from the Real and Pemmin's Aura on big mana generators like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Bloom Tender, or Helga herself. After drawing through the library, the deck immediately eliminates all three opponents in one combat phase using Craterhoof Behemoth and Glacier Godmaw, while robust free countermagic and proactive stax pieces like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines defend the win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Argothian Elder
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breaching Hippocamp
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Chakram Retriever
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dreamdew Entrancer
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Earthshaker Giant
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Glacier Godmaw
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Great Divide Guide
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Tanufel Rimespeaker
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus