Vee’s Menagerie of Miscreants by Nepenthes1

Format: Commander

Commander: Eshki, Temur's Roar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Eshki, Temur's Roar to convert undercosted high-power creatures into continuous card draw and table-wide noncombat damage. By pairing fast one-mana ramp with high-stature beaters like Phyrexian Dreadnought, Bristlebane Battler, and Slumbering Trudge, the deck deploys Eshki on turn 2 and activates its engine on turn 3. On turn 4, explosive mana engines like Fanatic of Rhonas and Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea fuel rapid multi-spell turns that draw through the library while burning every opponent simultaneously. Payoffs like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Terror of the Peaks, and Chandra's Incinerator double the damage output and clear opposing boards. Free protection spells like Deflecting Swat and Fierce Guardianship shield key permanents, allowing the deck to close the game on turn 5 through combined burn and massive trample combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agonasaur Rex
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bristlebane Battler
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 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 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth