Kreesh by SCraythorn

Format: Commander

Commander: Kresh the Bloodbraided

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Jund midrange beatdown strategy centered around Kresh the Bloodbraided. The game plan focuses on deploying early ramp, utility creatures, and +1/+1 counter synergies, followed by casting Kresh on Turn 5. By leveraging creature deaths from combat, targeted removal spells, and board sweepers like Blasphemous Act or Massacre Wurm, Kresh rapidly scales into a massive threat. The deck converts high power into game wins through trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising, evasion from Rogue's Passage, or direct damage flings via Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together and Soul's Fire. Robust independent threats such as Elder Gargaroth and Rampaging Baloths provide secondary paths to victory if the commander is removed. While the deck boasts high single-target burst damage and versatile removal, its reliance on combat connections across multiple turns and high concentration of tap lands create moderate tempo vulnerability against faster combo and control strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boiling Rock Prison
  • 1 Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cultivator's Caravan
  • 1 Delta Bloodflies
  • 1 Desert of the Fervent
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Emerald Dragon // Dissonant Wave
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feral Deathgorger // Dusk Sight
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hoarding Recluse
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Imperious Perfect
  • 1 Ironshell Beetle
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kresh the Bloodbraided
  • 1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Majestic Genesis
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Michelangelo's Technique
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Rhovanion Rampager
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Savage Mansion
  • 1 Scathing Shadelock // Venomous Words
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Spider-Punk
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Zombify