helga monster master by user5492581

Format: Commander

Commander: Helga, Skittish Seer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant Stompy Midrange list built around Helga, Skittish Seer. The primary strategy focuses on casting creatures with mana value 4 or greater to trigger Helga, drawing cards, gaining life, and building +1/+1 counters. Helga's tap ability converts those counters into scaling colored mana to cast increasingly massive threats ahead of curve. The deck transitions into the midgame by chaining bombs such as Koma, Cosmos Serpent, Hullbreaker Horror, Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution, and Surrak and Goreclaw. Win conditions rely on overwhelming combat damage granted by overrun and evasion effects like Earthshaker Giant, Sun Quan, Lord of Wu, and Garruk's Uprising. The list includes high-tier free protection such as Fierce Guardianship, Flawless Maneuver, and Force of Will alongside Heroic Intervention and Luminous Broodmoth to protect its board. Standalone engines like Galadriel, Light of Valinor and Chulane, Teller of Tales ensure the deck remains resilient even if Helga is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Aerith, Last Ancient
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arctic Treeline
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bellowing Tanglewurm
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory
  • 1 Bramble Sovereign
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Earthshaker Giant
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Galadriel, Light of Valinor
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kiora, Master of the Depths
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Mystic Snake
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Purity
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Spidersilk Armor
  • 1 Stonehoof Chieftain
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Urban Retreat
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Whiptongue Hydra
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yuna, Grand Summoner