Counters by user5669620

Format: Commander

Commander: Shalai and Hallar

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Shalai and Hallar turns every +1/+1 counter placed on a creature you control into a direct damage trigger. The deck's primary plan is to establish a counter engine (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Innkeeper's Talent), cast the commander, then use doubling effects such as Kalonian Hydra, Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener, and Fangs of Kalonia to make each trigger lethal. Secondary lines are trample-based combat with large Hydras and token generation from Felidar Retreat. Bright-Palm acts as the hidden backup commander. This is a slow midrange burn/beatdown hybrid: it lacks a true combo, so it wins by accumulating damage across multiple doubling turns and combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Aragorn, Hornburg Hero
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Botanical Brawler
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bretagard Stronghold
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
  • 1 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conclave Mentor
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Dromoka's Command
  • 1 Enduring Scalelord
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithful Watchdog
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Guardian Scalelord
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
  • 1 Llanowar Reborn
  • 1 Luminarch Aspirant
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Ordeal of Nylea
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ride's End
  • 1 Ruinous Intrusion
  • 1 Shalai and Hallar
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Signature Slam
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Sovereign Okinec Ahau
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Titanic Brawl
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Trash the Town
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket
  • 1 Victory's Envoy
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow