Hamzurger Helper

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Counters Creature Cheat GW (Selesnya) Hydra Midrange Ramp Tokens

EscapingBurger

Counter Fun (48)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Basri's Lieutenant
• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Bretagard Stronghold
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Enduring Scalelord
• 1x Expand the Sphere
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Herd Baloth
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Leinore, Autumn Sovereign
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Master Chef
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Ochre Jelly
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Phytohydra
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Quirion Beastcaller
• 1x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1x Scurry Oak
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Sigarda's Summons
• 1x Smell Fear
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Towashi Guide-Bot
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Unbreakable Formation
• 1x Vastwood Surge
• 1x Wildborn Preserver
• 1x Wildwood Scourge

Land (37)

• 1x Arctic Treeline
• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Botanical Plaza
• 1x Bretagard Stronghold
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Forest
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Graypelt Refuge
• 1x Hidden Nursery
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 2x Plains
• 1x Radiant Grove
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornglint Bridge
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Tranquil Expanse

Utility and Protection (8)

• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loyal Unicorn
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Trostani, Three Whispers
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

Finishers (4)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Sigarda's Summons
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain

Commander (1)

Get Cards (11)

• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Hidden Nursery
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
• 1x Leinore, Autumn Sovereign
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Towashi Guide-Bot

Ramp (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Expand the Sphere
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Scholar of New Horizons
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Vastwood Surge

Removal (9)

• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Smell Fear
• 1x Triskelion

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Maybeboard

Counter Fun (56)

• 1x Abzan Battle Priest
• 1x Ainok Bond-Kin
• 1x Ajani, the Greathearted
• 1x Alharu, Solemn Ritualist
• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Basri Ket
• 1x Basri's Solidarity
• 1x Case of the Trampled Garden
• 1x Conclave Mentor
• 1x Courage in Crisis
• 1x Crowd-Control Warden
• 1x Dormant Grove  ^Flip
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Dragonscale Boon
• 1x Durable Handicraft
• 1x Elite Scaleguard
• 1x Explorer's Cache
• 1x Fangren Firstborn
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Fight Rigging
• 1x Gavony Silversmith
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Gnarlid Colony
• 1x Hexavus
• 1x High Sentinels of Arashin
• 1x Invasion of Moag  ^Flip
• 1x Invigorating Surge
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
• 1x Lifecrafter's Gift
• 1x Long List of the Ents
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Noble Heritage
• 1x Oran-Rief Ooze
• 1x Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1x Pledge of Unity
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Pollenbright Wings
• 1x Pridemalkin
• 1x Regna's Sanction
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scepter of Celebration
• 1x Sigarda's Summons
• 1x Silverflame Ritual
• 1x Slurrk, All-Ingesting
• 1x Storm the Seedcore
• 1x Titania's Command
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Unbounded Potential
• 1x Vastwood Fortification  ^Flip
• 1x Verdant Confluence
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Removal (15)

• 1x Ambush Viper
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Captured by Lagacs
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Constable of the Realm
• 1x Hunter's Edge
• 1x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Ruinous Intrusion
• 1x Ruthless Instincts
• 1x Titanic Brawl
• 1x Wanderer's Strike
• 1x Wrath of God

Get Cards (6)

• 1x Adventurous Impulse
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

Land (6)

• 1x Bretagard Stronghold
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Thornglint Bridge
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum

Ramp (13)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fertilid's Favor
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Map the Wastes
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x New Horizons
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Verdant Confluence
• 1x Whisperer of the Wilds

Utility and Protection (11)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Feat of Resistance
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Noble Heritage
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Together Forever
• 1x Tolsimir Wolfblood

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The Big Get Bigger

This is my second Commander deck, though the first I really built from scratch. It's basically a big, dumb creature deck with as many +1/+1 counter-related cards as I could fit. Hamza, Guardian of Arashin can come out pretty quick if you get a few creatures with counters early, and from there you can cast most anything else at a discount. That being said, this is very much a work in progress, and I feel like it can often be slow to get started. I'll have to see what I can do about that.

Because this is a creature-focused deck, I tried to use creatures for utility where I could. I preferred mana dorks (Incubation Druid, Gold Myr--to be replaced with with Avacyn's Pilgrim when I get one) over mana rocks because they can get +1/+1 counters, although they're a bit more vulnerable. Leinore, Autumn Sovereign, Towashi Guide-Bot, and Armorcraft Judge are creatures with card draw, and Triskelion helps with removal, especially when you're putting more counters on it.

A lot of cards here serve multiple purposes, actually. Inspiring Call is card draw and protection, Unbreakable Formation is protection and counters, and Smell Fear is counters and removal. Khalni Ambush   and Ondu Inversion   are land or removal depending on what you need. Options!

The heart of the deck, though, is just a bunch of creatures, ways to put +1/+1 counters on them, and good things that happen when you add those counters. Scurry Oak, Herd Baloth, and Iridescent Hornbeetle make yet more creatures. Cards like Abzan Falconer and Duskshell Crawler hand out abilities, and Champion of Lambholt can make your creatures very difficult to block. Basri's Lieutenant and Ochre Jelly provide a bit of protection against board wipes. Many of the creatures just get very big, very fast. Note that Enduring Scalelord + Wildwood Scourge are an infinite combo, triggering off each other to add more counters until you decide to stop.

Improvements

There's a lot that could fit in this deck, and I'm still working out exactly what it needs, hence the massive maybeboard. A few of my thoughts so far:

1. As mentioned, it can be kind of slow to get started, depending on the initial draw. Sometimes I end up with a bunch of "Whenever you add a +1/+1 counter..." cards without anything that actually adds the first counter, or cards that don't do much until you have a lot of creatures out. This may just be bad luck--a good draw can be pretty explosive--but maybe I can adjust my proportions more.
2. Because it's so creature-focused, it can suffer against decks with a lot of board wipes or other ways to shut creatures down (Intrepid Hero is a serious problem for this deck--though I'm probably going to add one of my own). I have a few ways to protect my creatures, but may need more.
3. Maybe more card draw? With Hamza out, you can go through a hand of creatures pretty quickly. There are some good, repeatable sources of cards in here, but I'm not sure if it's enough.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 months
Key combos	Enduring Scalelord + Wildwood Scourge
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Squirrel 1/1 G
Folders	My Commander Decks