Main Lobster by irisible

Format: Commander

Commander: Rikala, Homarid King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck leverages Rikala, Homarid King to turn counter manipulation into explosive mana velocity and team-wide combat buffs. The core strategy uses counter-removal engines like Power Conduit, O'aka, Traveling Merchant, and Chisei, Heart of Oceans to hold Rikala at exactly 3 tide counters. This prevents Rikala's 4-counter reset while permanently doubling mana from every Island you control and giving your creatures +3/+0. The deck ramps during the early turns, establishes its counter regulator on turn 4, and unlocks doubled mana on turn 5. On turn 6, this surplus mana fuels game-ending threats like Koma, Cosmos Serpent, a multi-copy Doppelgang, or Finale of Devastation for X=10 or more. Opponents are locked down with Koma's activated abilities and eliminated over two combat cycles, concluding the game on turn 8. Strong recovery paths and high redundancy ensure resilient execution despite moderate reliance on draw volume.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Blighted Cataract
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Bounty of the Luxa
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chisei, Heart of Oceans
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Doppelgang
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Ferropede
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Goldberry, River-Daughter
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hexavus
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Lorthos, the Tidemaker
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nexus Mentality
  • 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Realmwright
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rikala, Homarid King
  • 1 Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrasios, Triton Hero
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood