Kresh, Sacrifice/Counters by user5287614

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Jund deck is led by Kresh the Bloodbraided, focusing on an aggressive blend of sacrifice synergies, +1/+1 counters, and explosive direct damage. The game plan revolves around deploying early mana acceleration, landing Kresh on Turn 4 or 5, and rapidly ballooning his power using self-sacrificing high-power creatures like Force of Savagery or token swarms from Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder and Mitotic Slime. Once Kresh achieves massive power, the deck bypasses traditional combat stalls using evasion equipment like Whispersilk Cloak, direct burn like Fling, Soul's Fire, and Essence Harvest, or table-wide wipes such as Chandra's Ignition. While the deck features resilient counter-retention via The Ozolith and recursion through Phyrexian Reclamation, it operates at a traditional mid-power pace, lacking stack countermagic and dedicated burst card draw outside of Skullclamp.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Artifact Mutation
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Bloodhall Ooze
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Burning Anger
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Deathcap Cultivator
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elemental Mastery
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Essence Harvest
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Fallen Ideal
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatal Frenzy
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Force of Savagery
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fungal Sprouting
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hellrider
  • 1 Impact Resonance
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jund Charm
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Madrush Cyclops
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mitotic Slime
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Obelisk of Jund
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Predator Dragon
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
  • 1 Rupture Spire
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
  • 1 Shattergang Brothers
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Sprouting Thrinax
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped
  • 1 Vhati il-Dal
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid