Eshki, Kirkland Brand Ambassador by Nivkey

Format: Commander

Commander: Eshki, Temur's Roar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

Eshki, Temur's Roar commands a high-tempo creature deck that turns high-power threats into immediate card advantage and table-wide direct damage. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with dense one-mana mana dorks and land enchantments, landing Eshki on turn 2. From turn 3 onward, casting creatures with power 4 or greater cantrips to keep the hand full, while creatures with power 6 or greater trigger Eshki's lethal burn across all opponents simultaneously. Explosive mana generators like Fanatic of Rhonas, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea allow the pilot to chain several massive creatures in a single turn. While the deck relies on combat and noncombat damage rather than infinite combo loops, cards like Chandra's Incinerator, Temur Ascendancy, and Xenagos, God of Revels provide overwhelming tempo and reach. Supported by free and low-cost interaction like Deflecting Swat and Fierce Guardianship, the deck reliably closes games by turn 5.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bristlebane Battler
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dragonclaw Strike
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spitebellows
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast