Hakbal of the Surging Soul
Hakbal of the Surging Soul Commander Deck
Hakbal of the Surging Soul leads a Merfolk tribal deck that leverages the explore mechanic to continuously grow the board with +1/+1 counters while filtering through the library and accelerating land drops. Merfolk lords and counter-doublers like Hardened Scales and Doubling Season amplify the snowballing board state, while unblockable enablers allow the team to crash through for damage and trigger draw effects like Seafloor Oracle. The primary win condition is locking opponents out of the game with infinite turns through Wanderwine Prophets, which becomes easy to achieve alongside Deeproot Pilgrimage generating the required Champion sacrifice fodder.
Decklist
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Arcane Signet
- Barkchannel Pathway
- Beast Within
- Benthic Biomancer
- Botanical Sanctum
- Burgeoning
- Cavern of Souls
- Cold-Eyed Selkie
- Command Tower
- Counterspell
- Cyclonic Rift
- Deepchannel Mentor
- Deepfathom Echo
- Deeproot Elite
- Deeproot Historian
- Deeproot Pilgrimage
- Deeproot Waters
- Deeproot Wayfinder
- Doubling Season
- Emergence Zone
- Emperor Mihail II
- Explore
- Farseek
- Forerunner of the Heralds
- 8× Forest
- Glasspool Mimic
- Growing Rites of Itlimoc
- Harbinger of the Seas
- Hardened Scales
- Herald of Secret Streams
- Heroic Intervention
- Hinterland Harbor
- Inspiring Call
- 8× Island
- Kiora, the Rising Tide
- Kopala, Warden of Waves
- Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
- Lord of Atlantis
- Master of the Pearl Trident
- Merfolk Mistbinder
- Merfolk Sovereign
- Merrow Reejerey
- Metallic Mimic
- Mist Dancer
- Nature's Lore
- Nicanzil, Current Conductor
- Path of Ancestry
- Pongify
- Realmwalker
- Reliquary Tower
- Rogue's Passage
- Seafloor Oracle
- Silvergill Adept
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Singer of Swift Rivers
- Sol Ring
- Stonybrook Banneret
- Stubborn Denial
- Surgespanner
- Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- Swan Song
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- Temple of Mystery
- Thada Adel, Acquisitor
- Thieving Skydiver
- Thought Vessel
- Three Tree City
- Three Visits
- Tide Shaper
- Tishana's Tidebinder
- Topography Tracker
- Tribute to the World Tree
- Turbulent Wilderness
- Unclaimed Territory
- Urza's Incubator
- Vineglimmer Snarl
- Vodalian Hexcatcher
- Wanderwine Prophets
- Waterlogged Grove
- Wave Goodbye
- Willowrush Verge
- Yavimaya Coast
- Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
- Zegana, Utopian Speaker