Achilles Heel by Walterboi77

Format: Commander

Commander: Haktos the Unscarred

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Boros Voltron and aggressive combat deck built around Haktos the Unscarred. The primary game plan accelerates into a Turn 4 Haktos and leverages its unique protection ability—which grants immunity to all mana values except a single randomly chosen value between 2 and 4—to swing past opposing blockers unhindered. Because targeted buffs often fail if Haktos is protected from their mana values, the deck relies on global anthems like Flowering of the White Tree and Always Watching, combat triggers like Raiyuu, Storm's Edge, and damage amplifiers like Blade Historian and Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar. The deck establishes early must-answer pressure by Turn 5, putting opponents on rapid two-turn commander damage clocks. While Haktos possesses built-in defense against spot removal and token swarms, the deck must eliminate three opponents sequentially through combat, leaving a multi-turn closing window vulnerable to untargeted board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akki Ronin
  • 1 Alpine Meadow
  • 1 Always Watching
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asari Captain
  • 1 Balefire Liege
  • 1 Blade Historian
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Cathedral of War
  • 1 Citadel Siege
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commune with Lava
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fast // Furious
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Furious Rise
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Glorious Anthem
  • 1 Goblin Champion
  • 1 Goblin War Drums
  • 1 Haktos the Unscarred
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Honor of the Pure
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Imperial Subduer
  • 1 Kargan Intimidator
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Keleth, Sunmane Familiar
  • 1 Lovisa Coldeyes
  • 1 Marshal's Anthem
  • 1 Master Warcraft
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Response // Resurgence
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sanctum Prelate
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Slash the Ranks
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Ifrit
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Tavern Brawler
  • 1 Tempered in Solitude
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 Thraben Watcher
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack