Baby Go Boom

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Lands Control and Gates Combo strategy helmed by Child of Alara. The game plan revolves around leveraging heavy land-based acceleration to assemble ten uniquely named Gates alongside Maze's End. While developing its mana, the deck uses Child of Alara combined with instant-speed recursion spells like Feign Death and sacrifice outlets like High Market as a repeatable, asymmetric board wipe engine. Because Child of Alara only destroys nonland permanents, opponents lose all their creatures, artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers while the pilot's land engine remains completely intact. Mass land tutors such as Scapeshift, Reshape the Earth, and Hour of Promise gather the required Gates rapidly, while enablers like Gond Gate and Spelunking ensure lands enter untapped. Backup win conditions include the Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage combo to summon a 20/20 Marit Lage, or lethal combat damage empowered by Basilisk Gate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Guildgate
  • 1 Bring to Light
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 District Guide
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flood of Recollection
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Gates Ablaze
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Selesnya Guildgate
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Titania's Command
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urban Evolution