Attack! Attack! Was A Good Band by DillyDally

Format: Commander

Commander: Akiri, Line-Slinger and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This four-color Midrange deck pairs Akiri, Line-Slinger and Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper to merge early-game artifact beatdown with late-game lifegain and high-impact creature threats. The early game focuses on deploying artifact lands, mana rocks, and utility creatures to grow Akiri into a formidable attacker. Mid-game engines like Academy Manufactor, Professional Face-Breaker, and Grim Hireling compound artifact generation, turning combat connections into mana velocity and impulse draw. In the late game, Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper leverages high toughness and evasion enchantments like Goblin War Drums and Intimidation to generate massive life totals, fueling game-ending payoffs like Archangel of Thune, Defiling Daemogoth, and Aetherflux Reservoir. While the deck possesses explosive combat potential and exceptional independent threat density, its reliance on sorcery-speed permanents and lack of instant-speed stack interaction leave it exposed to fast combo decks and well-timed board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Akiri, Line-Slinger
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Argentum Armor
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bejeweled Warg
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Court of Garenbrig
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fangren Marauder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Goblin War Drums
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Intimidation
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Keeper of Fables
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Noble Purpose
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saskia the Unyielding
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground