Crabs? I got em

Format: Commander

Commander: Homer, the Hermit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Landfall Mill strategy commanded by Homer, the Hermit, turning every land drop into explosive multi-target mill based on the density of Crabs and aquatic typings. The early game establishes rapid mana velocity using cheap land ramp and fetchlands to land Homer ahead of curve on Turn 3. Once assembled on Turn 4 with supplementary engines like Hedron Crab, Ruin Crab, or Scuttletide, the deck transitions into a rapid win condition. It exploits explosive sorceries like Scapeshift, kicked Maddening Cacophony, and Splendid Reclamation to trigger massive bursts of mill, stripping 40 to 60 cards per opponent in a single turn. Defensively, the list protects its game plan with efficient countermagic like Mana Drain, board control via Raise the Palisade and Toxic Deluge, and graveyard suppression via Ashiok, Dream Render. With robust recursion through Crucible of Worlds and Six, the deck grinds out opponents and consistently empties libraries by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hard Evidence
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homer, the Hermit
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scrabbling Skullcrab
  • 1 Scuttletide
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast