Child of Alara by AlHazard

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color control list that uses Child of Alara as a repeatable, on-demand board wipe. By combining the commander with cheap sacrifice spells like Village Rites and death-trigger return effects like Supernatural Stamina and Undying Malice, the deck repeatedly resets all nonland permanents on the battlefield. It breaks parity by focusing its ramp on basic lands, bounce lands, and indestructible mana rocks such as Darksteel Ingot and Skyclave Relic. The primary win condition is tutoring Kaldra Compleat into play using Anchor to Reality, attacking opponents with an indestructible, trample, living weapon threat that survives every board wipe. Backup win conditions include large mana payoffs like Exsanguinate and token multiplication with Doppelgang. While the deck excels at suppressing creature and permanent-based strategies, it has a slow combat clock and remains vulnerable to exile removal and countermagic targeting its recursion spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anchor to Reality
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Boros Garrison
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breathe Your Last
• 1 Child of Alara
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Doppelgang
• 1 Eaten Alive
• 1 Eureka Moment
• 1 Even the Score
• 1 Evil Reawakened
• 1 Eviscerator's Insight
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Final Vengeance
• 1 Fling
• 4 Forest
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Illicit Shipment
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 4 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Jungle Shrine
• 1 Kaldra Compleat
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Retrieval
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necrogen Communion
• 1 New Way Forward
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Origin of Metalbending
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Overprotect
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perennation
• 1 Pillage the Bog
• 4 Plains
• 1 Pull from Tomorrow
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reach the Horizon
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Rite of Oblivion
• 1 Roamer's Routine
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Self-Destruct
• 1 Shade's Form
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Skyclave Relic
• 1 Spider-Sense
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Supernatural Stamina
• 4 Swamp
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Twinferno
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Undying Malice
• 1 Untamed Wilds
• 1 Vastwood Surge
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Worthy Cost
• 1 Zombify