Hylda (olemassa) by vahuvahu

Format: Commander

Creator: vahuvahu

Commander: Hylda of the Icy Crown

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Azorius control deck turns creature tapping into an overwhelming offensive engine led by Hylda of the Icy Crown. Rather than merely stalling the game, tapping an opponent's creature triggers Hylda to produce 4/4 Elemental tokens, buff your board with +1/+1 counters, or filter and draw cards for just {1} mana. The deck utilizes dense redundancy across cheap creature tappers, auras, and enchantments like Opposition and Citadel Siege to control opponent combat steps and resource deployment. Asymmetric stax pieces like Thalia, Heretic Cathar, Authority of the Consuls, and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV ensure opposing threats enter tapped and tax enemy spells. Defensive engines such as Rest in Peace paired with Web of Inertia lock out opposing attacks completely, allowing you to amass an unblockable Elemental army and finish the game through combat damage over Turns 7 to 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adept Watershaper
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banisher Priest
  • 1 Bitter Chill
  • 1 Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Citadel Siege
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Curse of Chains
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dreamshackle Geist
  • 1 Elvish Mariner
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feeling of Dread
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Freeze in Place
  • 1 Gadwick, the Wizened
  • 1 Giant Killer // Chop Down
  • 1 Gideon's Lawkeeper
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Hylda's Crown of Winter
  • 1 Icewrought Sentry
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Merfolk Trickster
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrodin's Core
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Opposition
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phantom Interference
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Plunge into Winter
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhoda, Geist Avenger
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scroll of Isildur
  • 1 Sharae of Numbing Depths
  • 1 Shardmage's Rescue
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Sanctuary
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunblast Angel
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Theft of Dreams
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time of Ice
  • 1 Timin, Youthful Geist
  • 1 Topplegeist
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
  • 1 Unknown Shores
  • 1 Unravel
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Web of Inertia
  • 1 Witness Protection