Summoning Cthulu by user3050806

Format: Commander

Commander: The Notary Hobbits

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Big Mana Ramp strategy that uses The Notary Hobbits to produce massive colorless mana bursts. When the commander enters the battlefield, it creates two nonlegendary copies of itself. Because each copy taps for colorless mana equal to the total number of Halflings you control, the trio generates 9 colorless mana once active. The deck channels this mana directly into high-cost Eldrazi threats such as Kozilek, the Broken Reality, Desolation Twin, Ulamog's Crusher, and Bane of Bala Ged. Supporting permanents like Echoes of Eternity and Garruk's Uprising double triggers, grant trample, and replenish your hand. The main strategic challenge is protecting the 1/1 Halfling bodies during the single turn cycle they spend waiting to untap. Once the large threats hit the board, combat damage and Annihilator triggers overwhelm the table across two attack cycles.

Decklist (107 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Stirrings
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birthing Hulk
  • 1 Blanchwood Armor
  • 1 Blisterpod
  • 1 Breaker of Armies
  • 1 Chittering Dispatcher
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Commune with the Gods
  • 1 Coordinated Clobbering
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 19 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 From Beyond
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Growth Spasm
  • 1 Guardian Gladewalker
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idol of False Gods
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 It That Heralds the End
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Mutable Explorer
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Path of Annihilation
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Propagator Drone
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruins of Oran-Rief
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Spawnbed Protector
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Ulamog's Despoiler
  • 1 Vile Redeemer
  • 1 Warped Tusker
  • 9 Wastes
  • 1 Woodland Changeling
  • 1 World Breaker
  • 1 Worn Powerstone