Hakbal - Can't touch this! by OptimistBunny

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Simic Merfolk kindred strategy led by Hakbal of the Surging Soul. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Merfolk during the opening turns, casting Hakbal on Turn 4, and leveraging its combat explore trigger to generate massive card flow, thin lands from the library, and place +1/+1 counters across the entire team. Hakbal attacks to provide additional mana acceleration or card draw, quickly compounding board presence. The deck converts this wide, tall creature board into a win through unblockable evasion granted by Herald of Secret Streams, Deepchannel Mentor, or islandwalk lords such as Lord of Atlantis and Master of the Pearl Trident. A robust interaction suite of efficient counterspells protects the board against sweepers, while asymmetric board bounces like Raise the Palisade clear opposing blockers for a decisive multi-turn combat finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Attuma, Atlantean Warlord
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Garenbrig
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deepchannel Mentor
  • 1 Deepfathom Echo
  • 1 Deeproot Historian
  • 1 Deeproot Pilgrimage
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emperor Mihail II
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forerunner of the Heralds
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
  • 1 Lord of Atlantis
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
  • 1 Merfolk Sovereign
  • 1 Merrow Commerce
  • 1 Merrow Harbinger
  • 1 Merrow Reejerey
  • 1 Mist Dancer
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Namor the Sub-Mariner
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Seafloor Oracle
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tide Shaper
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Topography Tracker
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
  • 1 Voidslime
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wildgrowth Walker
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker