New Untitled Deck by user3954781

Format: Commander

Commander: Hakbal of the Surging Soul

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Simic Merfolk deck helmed by Hakbal of the Surging Soul executes a proactive tribal aggro-midrange strategy centered on the explore mechanic and +1/+1 counter synergies. The game plan focuses on deploying efficient low-cost Merfolk during early turns, followed by casting Hakbal on Turn 4 to trigger immediate mass exploration at the beginning of combat. This engine accelerates mana by drawing revealed lands, filters draw steps, and steadily grows creature power. By Turn 5, the deck transitions into critical threat onset by deploying tribal lords, counter amplifiers like Branching Evolution, or unblockable enablers such as Herald of Secret Streams and Lord of Atlantis. While vulnerable to mass creature sweepers during its multi-turn combat clock, the list leverages specialized protection like Ripples of Potential and Inspiring Call alongside the command-zone resilience of Hakbal to rebuild quickly. Opponents face an escalating, evasive combat swarm that systematically closes out the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benthic Biomancer
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deeproot Elite
  • 1 Deeproot Historian
  • 1 Deeproot Pilgrimage
  • 1 Deeproot Waters
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emperor Mihail II
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 For the Ancestors
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
  • 1 Lord of Atlantis
  • 1 Master of the Pearl Trident
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Merfolk Mistbinder
  • 1 Merfolk Skydiver
  • 1 Merfolk Sovereign
  • 1 Merrow Reejerey
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mist Dancer
  • 1 Namor, Scourge of the Seas
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primal Rage
  • 1 Quandrix Command
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Seafloor Oracle
  • 1 Seahunter
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonybrook Banneret
  • 1 Surgespanner
  • 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tempest Caller
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Topography Tracker
  • 1 Tributary Instructor
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vodalian Hexcatcher
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker