Counter Stompy by user3465794

Format: Commander

Commander: Halana, Kessig Ranger and Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a BG +1/+1 counter hydra deck built around the partner pair Halana/Reyhan. The primary plan is to ramp fast, cast large X-cost hydras, and compound counters with doubling effects until a single trampling attacker can finish each opponent. Halana is a repeatable removal spell: each new creature can pay {2} to deal its power as damage to a creature. Reyhan recovers lost counters when creatures die. The deck's true engine is Gargos, Vicious Watcher, which discounts hydra spells and triggers fights. Secondary paths include Natural Order into Nyxbloom Ancient and landfall proliferation. There is no infinite combo; wins are combat damage, usually through one giant hydra.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hagra Constrictor
  • 1 Halana, Kessig Ranger
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hooded Hydra
  • 1 Host of the Hereafter
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Master Chef
  • 1 Mistcutter Hydra
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Oran-Rief Hydra
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polukranos, Unchained
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vastwood Hydra
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth