5.48 - Cap America by PeanutsOfAwe

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain America, Team Leader

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai kindred aggro build focused on the Hero creature type, led by Captain America, Team Leader. The core game plan revolves around casting the commander early, then chaining Hero spells to grant them immediate haste, vigilance, and +1/+1 counters upon entering the battlefield. The deck leverages tribal cost reducers like Herald's Horn and Director Nick Fury, alongside steady draw engines like Jarvis, Earth's Mightiest Butler and Folk Hero, to maintain hand size and board presence. Win conditions rely on overwhelming combat math through modified synergies: War Machine, Avenging Arsenal grants double strike to modified attackers, Thor, Asgard's Avenger amplifies source damage, and Raise the Palisade clears opposing boards asymmetrically. The list avoids infinite combos and fast mana, presenting an honest, synergistic mid-power strategy that closes games through sequential combat eliminations around turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger
  • 1 Araña, Heart of the Spider
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avengers Quinjet
  • 1 Avengers Tower
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Black Widow, Agile Avenger
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Captain America, Team Leader
  • 1 Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Destroy Evil
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Director Nick Fury
  • 1 Dismantling Wave
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Falcon and Redwing
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebird, Blazing Ranger
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Hawkeye, Avenging Archer
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hercules, Olympian Hero
  • 1 Heroic Return
  • 1 Heroic Sacrifice
  • 1 Hulkbuster Armor
  • 1 Iron Man, Armored Avenger
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jarvis, Earth's Mightiest Butler
  • 1 Jocasta, Automaton Avenger
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Love on the Battlefield
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Methods of the Mighty
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Photon, Mighty Marvel
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Professor Hulk
  • 1 Quicksilver, Speedster
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rescue, Pepper Potts
  • 1 Rip Apart
  • 1 Scarlet Witch, Chaotic Avenger
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings
  • 1 She-Hulk, Wallbreaker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Super Hero Civil War
  • 1 The Wasp, Winsome Avenger
  • 1 Thor, Asgard's Avenger
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vision, Synthezoid Avenger
  • 1 War Machine, Avenging Arsenal
  • 1 West Coast Expansion
  • 1 Winter Soldier, Reborn Avenger