Explorers of the Deep
Hakbal of the Surging Soul Commander Precon
Hakbal of the Surging Soul leads a Merfolk tribal deck that weaponizes the explore mechanic to flood the board with +1/+1 counters while accelerating land drops, generating massive card advantage and a steadily growing army. Counter-doubling effects and proliferate synergies stack counters rapidly across the board, while evasion tools like unblockable abilities, flying, and islandwalk — plus Herald of Secret Streams making all countered creatures unblockable — push that army through for lethal damage. Simic Ascendancy provides an alternative win condition by converting the constant stream of +1/+1 counters into growth counters, threatening an automatic game win once twenty accumulate.
Explorers of the Deep decklist
- Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
- Mist Dancer
- Ripples of Potential
- Wave Goodbye
- Bygone Marvels
- Deeproot Historian
- Topography Tracker
- Tributary Instructor
- Singer of Swift Rivers
- Benthic Biomancer
- Commit // Memory
- Coralhelm Commander
- Curse of the Swine
- Emperor Mihail II
- Herald of Secret Streams
- Kindred Discovery
- Kopala, Warden of Waves
- Master of the Pearl Trident
- Merfolk Sovereign
- Reflections of Littjara
- Seafloor Oracle
- Surgespanner
- Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- Thassa, God of the Sea
- Thieving Skydiver
- Branching Evolution
- Deeproot Elite
- Hardened Scales
- Realmwalker
- Ruinous Intrusion
- Cold-Eyed Selkie
- Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
- Prime Speaker Zegana
- Quandrix Command
- Simic Ascendancy
- Tishana, Voice of Thunder
- Vorel of the Hull Clade
- Zegana, Utopian Speaker
- Metallic Mimic
- Alchemist's Refuge
- Hinterland Harbor
- Karn's Bastion
- Mosswort Bridge
- Temple of Mystery
- Vineglimmer Snarl
- Merfolk Cave-Diver
- Aetherize
- Deeproot Waters
- Merrow Reejerey
- Rapid Hybridization
- Ravenform
- Sage of Fables
- Stonybrook Banneret
- Beast Within
- Nicanzil, Current Conductor
- Evolution Sage
- Explore
- Inspiring Call
- Kodama's Reach
- Growth Spiral
- Kiora's Follower
- Merfolk Mistbinder
- Merfolk Skydiver
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- Arcane Signet
- Commander's Sphere
- Simic Signet
- Sol Ring
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Command Tower
- Llanowar Reborn
- Myriad Landscape
- Path of Ancestry
- Reliquary Tower
- Rogue's Passage
- Secluded Courtyard
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Temple of the False God
- Unclaimed Territory
- 4× Forest
- 3× Forest
- 7× Island
- 6× Island