At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian
- Colors: Green / Blue / White (GUW)
- Archetype: Bant +1/+1 Counters / Proliferate Value Engine
- Power tier: competitive
- Original deck: Isaac Prusky — max-power Brawl reimagining of his paper Commander list (Moxfield)
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Ramp T1-2 on mana dorks (Birds, Noble Hierarch, Caryatid, Incubation Druid, Bloom Tender) into a counter-DOUBLER, so every counter you place multiplies. Stack doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, Conclave Mentor, Kami, Ozolith Spire, Innkeeper’s Talent, Primal Vigor) and each placement snowballs geometrically. Tidus is the linchpin: begin-combat move a counter onto an evasive body, connect, and Cheer draws + proliferates once per turn — Roaming Throne (name the commander’s type) and Lithoform Engine copy that trigger for double draw + double proliferate. A dense proliferate suite (Evolution Sage, Flux Channeler, Grateful Apparition, Merfolk Skydiver, Thrummingbird, Tekuthal doubling it, Ezuri drawing off it, Inexorable Tide, Contentious Plan) compounds the whole board every turn while advancing the creature-Sagas’ lore counters. Payoffs cash counters into cards (Inspiring Call, Terrasymbiosis, Zegana, Guardian Project, Beast Whisperer, Esper Sentinel, Rhystic Study, Tatyova) or board/wins (Warden of the Grove, Byrke, Forgotten Ancient, both Zimones, Simic Ascendancy as a stealth alt-win). Hydras (Hydroid Krasis, Hooded, Goldvein) and anthem walkers (Nissa, Basri, Mikaeus) close. The Ozolith banks counters through removal and reloads a fresh threat. Premium interaction (Swords, Get Lost, March, Mystic Snake, Brazen Borrower, Wandering Emperor, Winds of Abandon) protects the engine. The creature-Saga package (Jugan, Kyoshi, Fall of Gil-galad) lets Tidus shuttle lore counters to keep transformed Sagas alive and loop chapters via proliferate — the flavor payoff that rides along on the counter theme.
Upgrade path
MAX-POWER BUILD 2026-07-20 (unlimited crafts) — the best-in-class counterpart to the owned-first brawl-tidus-counters. Premium doublers/proliferate/ramp/removal + a full Bant untapped manabase. NOT owned-first: most cards are crafts. Unlimited crafts — every card is the best-in-slot pick regardless of ownership. Heavy mythic/rare density is intentional: the doublers (Doubling Season 5M, Primal Vigor 5R), engine pieces (Roaming Throne 4R, Lithoform Engine 4M, The Great Henge 9M), and premium removal (Get Lost, Swords, March) are all top-tier craftable staples. Color identity of every card is a subset of {G,U,W}; no black/red anywhere. Notably kept The Great Henge as payoff-ramp and cut slower standalone Sagas (Elesh Norn/Jin-Gitaxias/Vorinclex) in favor of a tighter curve.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
Deck
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Ilysian Caryatid
1 Incubation Druid
1 Bloom Tender
1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
1 The Great Henge
1 Doubling Season
1 Branching Evolution
1 Hardened Scales
1 Conclave Mentor
1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
1 Innkeeper's Talent
1 Primal Vigor
1 Evolution Sage
1 Flux Channeler
1 Grateful Apparition
1 Merfolk Skydiver
1 Thrummingbird
1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
1 Inexorable Tide
1 Contentious Plan
1 Roaming Throne
1 Lithoform Engine
1 The Ozolith
1 Forgotten Ancient
1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst
1 Warden of the Grove
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Inspiring Call
1 Terrasymbiosis
1 Zegana, Utopian Speaker
1 Simic Ascendancy
1 Byrke, Long Ear of the Law
1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
1 Hydroid Krasis
1 Hooded Hydra
1 Goldvein Hydra
1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
1 Basri Ket
1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
1 Esper Sentinel
1 Guardian Project
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
1 Rhystic Study
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Get Lost
1 March of Otherworldly Light
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Mystic Snake
1 The Wandering Emperor
1 Winds of Abandon
1 Kodama of the West Tree
1 Elrond, Master of Healing
1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
1 Jugan Defends the Temple
1 The Legend of Kyoshi
1 Fall of Gil-galad
1 Command Tower
1 Spara's Headquarters
1 Breeding Pool
1 Temple Garden
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Brushland
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Hushwood Verge
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Floodfarm Verge
1 Botanical Sanctum
1 Seachrome Coast
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Nesting Grounds
1 Karn's Bastion
1 Tyrite Sanctum
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
1 Fabled Passage
8 Forest
4 Island
3 Plains
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