Altair

Format: Commander

Commander: Kelsien, the Plague

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This Mardu deck is a focused creature-control and Voltron strategy led by Kelsien, the Plague. The primary game plan converts Kelsien's vigilance, haste, and tap ability into repeatable instant-speed removal by granting it deathtouch via equipment like Basilisk Collar and Hunter's Blowgun. Every destroyed creature rewards an experience counter, permanently boosting Kelsien's power and toughness across the entire game. Synergies like Thornbite Staff, Drumbellower, and Maha, Its Feathers Night turn single pings into continuous board control. As counters accumulate, the deck pivots into an aggressive finisher, utilizing evasive tools, Otharri, Suns' Glory, and Chandra's Ignition to eliminate opponents through commander damage and token swarms. While devastating against creature-based strategies, the deck lacks countermagic to stop stack-based combos, making timely pressure and protective sequencing vital.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All-Out Assault
• 1 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Assault Intercessor
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Bounty Board
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Bureau Headmaster
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Clackbridge Troll
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Detection Tower
• 1 Drown in Ichor
• 1 Drumbellower
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Forge Anew
• 1 Fracture
• 1 General's Enforcer
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hammer of Nazahn
• 1 Humble Defector
• 1 Hunter's Blowgun
• 1 Illusionist's Bracers
• 1 Kelsien, the Plague
• 1 Kratos, Stoic Father
• 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
• 1 Magewright's Stone
• 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• 1 Mathas, Fiend Seeker
• 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
• 1 Mirrodin Avenged
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Otharri, Suns' Glory
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Patriar's Seal
• 3 Plains
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Puresteel Paladin
• 1 Qarsi Revenant
• 1 Queen Marchesa
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Robaran Mercenaries
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Royal Assassin
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Rune of Mortality
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shay Cormac
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Stoneforge Mystic
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Masamune
• 1 Thornbite Staff
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Void Beckoner
• 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
• 1 You Are Already Dead