Tyranids by JB999

Format: Commander

Commander: Magus Lucea Kane

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur midrange strategy centered around Magus Lucea Kane, designed to generate high mana velocity and copy large X-cost Tyranid creatures and spells. The early game focuses on accelerating mana through ramp spells and cost reducers like Nexos and Biophagus to deploy the commander on Turn 3 or 4. Once untaped, Magus doubles massive X-cost spells, triggering Ravenous multiple times to build giant board presence while maintaining a full hand of cards. The midgame converts this board into lethal combat damage using mass trample from Old One Eye, flying and haste from Winged Hive Tyrant, or alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy. The deck excels at sustained resource generation and raw power, but its reliance on creature-based combat and a fragile 1/1 commander creates clear vulnerabilities to board sweepers and targeted removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Bone Sabres
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Cave of Temptation
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clamavus
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gargoyle Flock
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 Hormagaunt Horde
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Malanthrope
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mawloc
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 New Horizons
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Old One Eye
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravener
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Shadow in the Warp
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Termagant Swarm
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 The First Tyrannic War
  • 1 The Swarmlord
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Toxicrene
  • 1 Trygon Prime
  • 1 Tyranid Harridan
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Tyrant Guard
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Venomthrope
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Zoanthrope