Kratos, God of War

Kratos, God of War Commander Deck

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.

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