Klothylde by spltzr

Format: Commander

Commander: Klothys, God of Destiny

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul group slug strategy commanded by Klothys, God of Destiny. It accelerates in the opening turns to deploy Klothys alongside low-cost punisher permanents like Roiling Vortex and Eidolon of the Great Revel. By Turn 5, the deck transitions into its critical onset phase by resolving massive board-wide damage engines such as Manabarbs, Burning Earth, Descent into Avernus, or Heartless Hidetsugu, frequently amplified by Torbran, Thane of Red Fell or Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power. Opponents take severe damage for performing ordinary game actions like tapping lands, casting spells, and activating abilities. Klothys breaks the symmetry of this self-inflicted damage by gaining life every turn, while cards like Glacial Chasm and Obscuring Haze safeguard the pilot against aggressive retaliation. The deck closes out games around Turn 7 as opponents burn out from mandatory triggers or get finished by a scaled Crackle with Power.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ankh of Mishra
• 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Burning Earth
• 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
• 1 Chandra's Incinerator
• 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Cindervines
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commercial District
• 1 Crackle with Power
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fertile Ground
• 8 Forest
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Gruul Signet
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1 Herald of the Pantheon
• 1 Highland Forest
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Keen Sense
• 1 Kenrith's Transformation
• 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
• 1 Magebane Lizard
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Manglehorn
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Mountain Valley
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Obscuring Haze
• 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
• 1 Powerbalance
• 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
• 1 Pyrostatic Pillar
• 1 Radiant Fountain
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Reforge the Soul
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Roiling Vortex
• 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1 Sanctum Weaver
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
• 1 Setessan Champion
• 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellshock
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Stone of Erech
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sulfuric Vortex
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Tempt with Mayhem
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 1 Utopia Sprawl
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Verduran Enchantress
• 1 Viridian Revel
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Weaver of Harmony
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Wheel of Misfortune
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zhur-Taa Druid
• 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher