Minthara by Vahhs

Format: Commander

Commander: Minthara, Merciless Soul

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck uses Minthara, Merciless Soul to convert leaves-the-battlefield triggers into permanent experience counters that grant scaling power buffs to all creatures. The mana base runs a high density of self-sacrificing fetchlands to ensure Minthara triggers on the turn she enters. Midgame turns expand the board using myriad attackers like Battle Angels of Tyr and Hammers of Moradin, which generate temporary attacking tokens that exile at end of combat, triggering Minthara every turn. Proliferate engines like Metastatic Evangel and Grateful Apparition accelerate experience counters into double digits. Strong draw engines like Trouble in Pairs and Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar keep resources flowing, while instant-speed mass blink spells like Eerie Interlude and Ghostway protect the board from opposing sweepers. The deck closes games around Turn 7 with overwhelming wide combat damage backed by Akroma's Will or life drain from Commissar Severina Raine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang, Airbending Master
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Banshee of the Dread Choir
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Call for Unity
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Dalek Squadron
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Hammers of Moradin
  • 1 Herald of the Host
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Loyal Warhound
  • 1 Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pegasus Guardian // Rescue the Foal
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Retreat to Emeria
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Ruin Ghost
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Sarevok, Deathbringer
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Trove Warden
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wyrm's Crossing Patrol