Hellgrr by Pearfect

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant midrange stompy deck commanded by Helga, Skittish Seer. The game plan centers on casting creatures with mana value 4 or greater (and scalable X-cost Hydras) to trigger Helga's ability, drawing cards, gaining life, and growing her power to tap for large amounts of mana. Early turns focus on establishing 2-mana and 3-mana ramp before deploying Helga on Turn 3. Starting on Turn 4, every large creature replaces itself in hand while expanding Helga's mana generation. The deck converts this resource velocity into overwhelming combat pressure through counter multipliers like Branching Evolution and Kalonian Hydra, finishing opponents with trampling overruns like Overwhelming Stampede or alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy. While the deck possesses explosive creature scaling and targeted hexproof protection, it remains vulnerable to board wipes and lacks mass interaction or fast combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chocobo Knights
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Gandalf, Westward Voyager
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hungering Hydra
  • 1 Hydra Omnivore
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Karametra, God of Harvests
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sawtusk Demolisher
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Charm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tolarian Kraken
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Will of the Temur
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor