Treebound Hound by TsulKalu

Format: Commander

Commander: Pako, Arcane Retriever and Haldan, Avid Arcanist

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Pako and Haldan form a two-part engine: Pako attacks early to exile each opponent's top card and grow with +1/+1 counters, while Haldan later casts those exiled noncreature spells with any color of mana. The deck typically wins by chaining extra combat steps with Aggravated Assault and Savage Ventmaw (or Old Gnawbone), then letting Pako's increasing power run over all three opponents. Backup paths are Basalt Monolith + Kinnan + Forsaken Monument producing infinite colorless mana, and a spells-matter package with Thousand-Year Storm, Guttersnipe, and Veyran. Etali serves as a haymaker alternative. No hidden commander is necessary; both partners are central.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haldan, Avid Arcanist
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pako, Arcane Retriever
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Worldly Tutor