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Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener Commander Deck

Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener leads a +1/+1 counter-doubling strategy that grows creatures to enormous sizes and then makes them nearly unblockable, using the backup mechanic to spread its attack trigger to other creatures. The deck floods the board with counters through on-entry effects, combat triggers, and passive anthem-style abilities that place counters on every creature that enters, then leverages doubling effects from Bright-Palm and Kalonian Hydra to create exponentially large threats that opponents cannot block. Win conditions include dealing lethal combat damage through an army of massive, difficult-to-block creatures, with Shalai and Hallar converting counter placement directly into player damage and Uncivil Unrest doubling the damage output of any counter-bearing attacker that does get through.

Decklist

• Shalai and Hallar
• Death-Greeter's Champion
• Uncivil Unrest
• Ichor Elixir
• Mirror-Style Master
• Guardian Scalelord
• Emergent Woodwurm
• Path of the Pyromancer
• Conclave Sledge-Captain
• Kalonian Hydra
• Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• Canopy Vista
• Champion of Lambholt
• Cinder Glade
• Dromoka's Command
• Exotic Orchard
• Flamerush Rider
• Flameshadow Conjuring
• Forgotten Ancient
• Fortified Village
• Furycalm Snarl
• Game Trail
• Gavony Township
• Genesis Hydra
• Gyre Sage
• Heaven // Earth
• High Sentinels of Arashin
• Incubation Druid
• Inscription of Abundance
• Ion Storm
• Kessig Wolf Run
• Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• Managorger Hydra
• Mossfire Valley
• Mosswort Bridge
• Restoration Angel
• Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• Semester's End
• Strionic Resonator
• Sungrass Prairie
• Sunscorch Regent
• Temple of Abandon
• Temple of Plenty
• Temple of Triumph
• Together Forever
• Triskelion
• Command Tower
• Commander's Sphere
• Cultivate
• Evolving Wilds
• Fertilid
• Fractured Powerstone
• Kodama's Reach
• Path of Ancestry
• Pridemalkin
• Return to Nature
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Wood Elves
• Abzan Battle Priest
• Abzan Falconer
• Alharu, Solemn Ritualist
• Arcane Signet
• Armorcraft Judge
• Brawn
• Bretagard Stronghold
• Conclave Mentor
• Constable of the Realm
• Elite Scaleguard
• Enduring Scalelord
• Falkenrath Exterminator
• Field of Ruin
• Generous Gift
• Good-Fortune Unicorn
• Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
• Hindervines
• Inspiring Call
• Jungle Shrine
• Juniper Order Ranger
• Krosan Verge
• Llanowar Reborn
• Mindless Automaton
• Rogue's Passage
• Slurrk, All-Ingesting
• Sol Ring
• Swords to Plowshares
• Temple of the False God
• 5× Plains
• 2× Mountain
• 6× Forest