A Boy and His Dog by DrakoKnight

Format: Commander

Commander: Thrasios, Triton Hero and Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 19

Deck overview

The deck uses Thrasios, Triton Hero as a scalable mana sink and Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful as an early legendary threat. Its strongest ordinary plan is to accelerate with mana creatures and artifacts, deploy a cost reducer such as Training Grounds or Biomancer's Familiar, and use Thrasios to improve land access and draw. Legendary permanents, +1/+1 counters, enchantments, and equipment provide several secondary value engines. Interaction is respectable, with efficient creature removal, flexible permanent answers, protection, and a few turn-specific casting restrictions. The main weakness is conversion: value does not reliably become a compact win. Super State and Sovereigns of Lost Alara can create a powerful combat route, while Simic Ascendancy offers an alternate long game, but neither is consistently assembled or fast enough to establish a dependable clock. The deck is therefore a flexible casual-to-high-power midrange shell rather than a cEDH list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstergo Entertainment
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcanum Wings
  • 1 Avacyn's Memorial
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biomancer's Familiar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain Sisay
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Leyline of Singularity
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pendelhaven
  • 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sovereigns of Lost Alara
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Urza's Ruinous Blast
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful