Valko by Pearfect

Format: Commander

Commander: Valko Indorian

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Phyrexian Kindred Midrange strategy commanded by Valko Indorian. Valko's Rulebreaker ability grants access to Phyrexian creatures of every color while granting the entire team menace and lifelink. The early game establishes mana development and applies initial poison counters with low-cost toxic creatures. In the mid-game, the deck deploys high-impact Praetors to disrupt opposing game plans with asymmetric tax and counter denial. The endgame closes by proliferating poison counters to lethal thresholds using combat triggers and end-step abilities. While vulnerable to mass exile sweepers and noncreature mana constraints, the deck boasts resilient graveyard recovery, high combat evasion, and punishing stax pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloated Contaminator
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminant Grafter
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defiler of Dreams
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Essence of Orthodoxy
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Glissa, Herald of Predation
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Phyresis Outbreak
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Progenitor Exarch
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Valko Indorian
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Venerated Rotpriest
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vishgraz, the Doomhive
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus