Tyranid by SpagNoodle

Format: Commander

Creator: SpagNoodle

Commander: Magus Lucea Kane

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur ramp and stompy strategy led by Magus Lucea Kane, designed to capitalize on spells with {X} in their mana costs and +1/+1 counter synergies. The early game focuses on setting up color fixing and mana acceleration through rocks, basic land fetching, and specialized ramp like Nexos and Troyan, Gutsy Explorer. Magus Lucea Kane lands on turn 3 or 4, acting as both a mana source and a copy engine. From turn 5 onward, tapping Lucea Kane to cast X-cost Tyranid creatures yields double the board presence while triggering the Ravenous ability twice for card advantage whenever X is 5 or greater. The deck wins between turns 7 and 8 through overwhelming combat damage facilitated by trample and haste enablers, or by copying massive direct-damage spells like Comet Storm and Jaya's Immolating Inferno to burn out remaining opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atalan Jackal
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clamavus
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Deathleaper, Terror Weapon
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exocrine
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gargoyle Flock
  • 1 Genestealer Locus
  • 1 Genestealer Patriarch
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haruspex
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hormagaunt Horde
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lukka, Bound to Ruin
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Malanthrope
  • 1 Master Biomancer
  • 1 Mawloc
  • 1 Mind Spring
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nexos
  • 1 Old One Eye
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ravener
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sporocyst
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Termagant Swarm
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 The First Tyrannic War
  • 1 The Swarmlord
  • 1 Thirsting Roots
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Toxicrene
  • 1 Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
  • 1 Trygon Prime
  • 1 Tyranid Harridan
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Tyrant Guard
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Zoanthrope