POWER QUEENS by gemgirl

Format: Commander

Commander: Cecil Harvey and Barnabas Tharmr

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a four-color (WUBR) cEDH deck built around the partner pair Tymna the Weaver and Kraum, Ludevic's Opus, leveraging their low-cost, card-drawing abilities to fuel a hyper-efficient combo engine. The primary win condition is the classic Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation line, supported by Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze loops. The deck eschews green for raw speed, packing an absurd density of fast mana (Dark Ritual, Mana Vault, Lotus Petal, all four Moxen), rituals, and tutors to assemble a win by turn three. The commanders provide exceptional value-Tymna draws cards from combat damage, and Kraum triggers on opponents' second spells-but the deck functions perfectly well without them, making it a resilient, tutor-driven goodstuff pile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barnabas Tharmr
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bhujerba, Floating City
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cecil Harvey
  • 1 Chaos Emerald
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordyceps Excision
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dual-Bladed Hunter
  • 1 Endwalker
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Henneth Annûn
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Knights of San d'Oria
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Porom's Silence Magic
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shu Jing Meteorite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Widow-Making Infiltrator
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed