Kratos, God of War pressures opponents by taxing them for any creatures they leave untapped at end of turn, creating a punishing environment where the entire table is incentivized to attack while all creatures gain haste to immediately threaten combat. The deck floods the board with a wide variety of creatures across many creature types, ensuring Kratos himself can swing in with double strike for substantial damage while the end-step punishment whittles down players who cannot or choose not to attack. The strategy wins through a combination of combat damage and incremental burn, leveraging card draw, token generation, and ramp spells to maintain a constant stream of attackers that force opponents into a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position.

Kratos, God of War decklist

• A Promise Fulfilled
• A Realm Reborn
• Abigale, Poet Laureate
• Action News Crew
• Adventurer's Airship
• Adventurer's Inn
• Aggro Amalgam
• Ahriman
• Airship Crash
• 2× Ajani's Response
• Al Bhed Salvagers
• Ancestral Anger
• Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
• Artistic Process
• Ascendant Dustspeaker
• Avalanche of Sector 7
• Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy
• Balamb T-Rexaur
• Banishing Betrayal
• Bard's Bow
• Baron, Airship Kingdom
• Barret Wallace
• Baxter Stockman
• Biogenic Ooze
• Black Mage's Rod
• Black Waltz No. 3
• Blazing Bomb
• Boommobile
• Bot Bashing Time
• Bountiful Landscape
• Burrog Banemaker
• Burrog Barrage
• Cactuar
• Cait Sith, Fortune Teller
• Cheerful Osteomancer
• Chelonian Tackle
• Cid, Freeflier Pilot
• Cloudbound Moogle
• Commander's Sphere
• Concealed Courtyard
• Contaminated Landscape
• 2× Cost of Brilliance
• Courier of Comestibles
• Cowabunga!
• Crop Rotation
• Crustacean Commando
• Cultivate
• Cunning Maneuver
• Dark Knight's Greatsword
• Death in the Family
• Deceptive Landscape
• Deduce
• 3× Deluge Virtuoso
• Diabolic Tutor
• Diamond Weapon
• Dig Site Inventory
• Dimension X
• Dina's Guidance
• Don & Raph, Hard Science
• Dragoon's Wyvern
• Dreams of Laguna
• Duel Tactics
• Dwarven Castle Guard
• Eager Glyphmage
• East Wind Avatar
• Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
• Efflorescence
• Electric Seaweed
• 2× Elemental Mascot
• 2× Elite Interceptor
• Elixir
• Éowyn, Shieldmaiden
• 2× Eternal Student
• 2× Exotic Orchard
• Explorer's Scope
• Expressive Firedancer
• Fang, Fearless l'Cie
• Farseek
• Fast Forward
• Fate of the Sun-Cryst
• 2× Fields of Strife
• Firebender Ascension
• Flashback
• Follow the Lumarets
• 2× Foolish Fate
• Foot Elite
• Foot Mystic
• Foot Ninjas
• Foreboding Landscape
• 20× Forest
• 4× Forum of Amity
• 2× Fractal Mascot
• Fractalize
• From Father to Son
• Furious Rise
• Garnet, Princess of Alexandria
• General Traag, Heart of Stone
• Genghis Frog
• Gigantoad
• Glorious Decay
• Goblin Glasswright
• Gohn, Town of Ruin
• Gongaga, Reactor Town
• Goobbue Gardener
• Grapple with Death
• 2× Grounded for Life
• Gysahl Greens
• 2× Harmonize
• Heated Argument
• Hecteyes
• Heidegger, Shinra Executive
• High-Flying Ace
• Hop to It
• 3× Hydro-Channeler
• 2× Ice Cream Kitty
• Ice Flan
• Il Mheg Pixie
• Imperious Inkmage
• Impractical Joke
• Improvisation Capstone
• 3× Inkling Mascot
• Inkshape Demonstrator
• 2× Insectoid Exterminator
• Insomnia, Crown City
• Interjection
• Iron Giant
• 20× Island
• Knockout Maneuver
• Krang, the All-Powerful
• Krile Baldesion
• 2× Landscape Painter
• Last Gasp
• Laughing Mad
• Leonardo, Leader in Blue
• Leonardo's Technique
• Light of Judgment
• Lightning, Security Sergeant
• Living History
• Lluwen, Exchange Student
• Locke Cole
• 2× Locust Spray
• Loporrit Scout
• Magic Damper
• Magitek Armor
• Magitek Infantry
• Malboro
• Manhole Missile
• 2× Masterful Flourish
• 2× Melancholic Poet
• 2× Michelangelo, Game Master
• 2× Mind Roots
• Mindful Biomancer
• Mole Module
• 2× Molten Note
• Molten-Core Maestro
• Monk's Fist
• Moogles' Valor
• 20× Mountain
• Mouser Attack!
• 2× Mouser Mark III
• Muse Seeker
• Mysidian Elder
• Nobody
• Nomad Outpost
• 2× Noxious Newt
• Opulent Palace
• Oracle's Restoration
• 2× Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
• 2× Orysa, Tide Choreographer
• Overkill
• Owlin Historian
• 2× Page, Loose Leaf
• Paladin's Arms
• Paradox Gardens
• Paradox Surveyor
• Perilous Landscape
• Pest
• 2× Pest Mascot
• Pick Your Poison
• Pigment Wrangler
• 20× Plains
• Planar Engineering
• 2× Primary Research
• Primordial Pachyderm
• Prismari Charm
• 2× Procrastinate
• Pull from the Grave
• Punk Frogs
• PuPu UFO
• 2× Purple Dragon Punks
• 2× Pursue the Past
• Quandrix Charm
• 2× Quick Study
• Qutrub Forayer
• Rabanastre, Royal City
• Rabid Attack
• Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals
• Raphael, Tough Turtle
• 3× Rapier Wit
• Rat King, Pale Piper
• 2× Rearing Embermare
• Remand
• Reno and Rude
• Resentful Revelation
• Retrieve the Esper
• Return to the Sewers
• Rinoa Heartilly
• Roadkill Rodney
• Rock Soldiers
• 2× Rocksteady, Crash Courser
• Rook Turret
• Royal Treatment
• Rubble Rouser
• Ruby, Daring Tracker
• Scathing Shadelock
• Scheming Silvertongue
• 2× Scolding Administrator
• Scorpion Sentinel
• Secret Rendezvous
• Seething Landscape
• Self-Destruct
• Send in the Pest
• Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
• Sephiroth's Intervention
• Sewer-veillance Cam
• Shattered Landscape
• Shattered Sanctum
• Shinra Reinforcements
• Shredder's Revenge
• Sidequest: Card Collection
• Silverquill Charm
• Skateboard
• Skullclamp
• Skycoach Conductor
• Snarl Song
• Sneering Shadewriter
• Sol Ring
• Sold Out
• SOLDIER Military Program
• Spectacle Summit
• Spectacular Skywhale
• Spellbook Seeker
• Spirit Mascot
• Squirrelanoids
• Stadium Tidalmage
• 2× Stand Up for Yourself
• Stargaze
• 2× Stock Up
• Strife Scholar
• Studious First-Year
• Summon: Fat Chocobo
• Summon: Fenrir
• Summon: G.F. Ifrit
• Summon: Primal Garuda
• 20× Swamp
• Syncopate
• Tablet of Discovery
• 2× Tackle Artist
• 2× Tenured Concocter
• 2× Tester of the Tangential
• Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• The Crystal's Chosen
• The Emperor of Palamecia
• The Fire Crystal
• The Prima Vista
• Thunder Magic
• Tifa Lockhart
• Tome Blast
• Tragedy Feaster
• Tranquil Landscape
• Traumatic Critique
• Tunnel Rats
• Twisted Landscape
• 2× Ulna Alley Shopkeep
• Ultimate Magic: Meteor
• Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
• Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus
• Unsubtle Mockery
• Utrom Scientists
• Valkyrie Aerial Unit
• Vayne's Treachery
• Venus, Torn Between Worlds
• Vincent's Limit Break
• 2× Visionary's Dance
• White Auracite
• 2× Wild Hypothesis
• World Map
• Zaffai and the Tempests
• Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis