Precon decklist
From Cute to Brute: The Full Decklist
Every one of the 100 cards in From Cute to Brute, the Secret Lair Commander precon led by Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge, exactly as it comes in the box.
Double-faced cards. Transforming creatures, flip-walkers, Pathways and Ixalan's flip lands fill the deck, and Esika's back face, The Prismatic Bridge, puts a creature or planeswalker from your library onto the battlefield every upkeep.
This is the product as Wizards printed it, with no substitutions or upgrades of ours. The list comes from the same precon catalog the TurnZero HQ app reads, so it is the deck you get if you start one from this precon in the Deck Lab rather than a copy of it that can drift.
Two faces on most cards means more text to read and a choice at nearly every land drop.
How it plays
Read off its own cards, From Cute to Brute looks like mostly a go wide deck , with tribal running through it. That is what the hundred cards suggest, not a label Wizards printed on the box. It is the same read our precon tier list uses to pick which deckbuilding template to measure this list against, which here is Go-Wide Tokens.
Its spells average 3.7 mana, right on the 3.7 a go-wide tokens deck is usually built to, so it deploys at the speed its plan expects.
- 21 card advantage against a target of 9. That is more than a deck of this kind usually runs, which is a choice the deck makes rather than a mistake.
- 45 lands against a target of 36. That is more than a deck of this kind usually runs, which is a choice the deck makes rather than a mistake.
- 34 creatures against a target of 25. That is more than a deck of this kind usually runs, which is a choice the deck makes rather than a mistake.
Counting what it holds, this list sits at bracket 2 (Core) at least. A bracket estimate is a floor and never a ceiling: the lookup behind it can confirm a combo and never prove there is not one, because only combos somebody has written up are in the database.
How hard it is to pilot
Two faces on most cards means more text to read and a choice at nearly every land drop.
The measured half of that comes from what is printed on the cards:
- 28 of its 57 nonland cards ask you to remember something: counters on the board, tokens, what is in the graveyard, a card set aside for later
- 4 different kinds of that bookkeeping, led by token making, sacrificing your own permanents, +1/+1 counters
- 5 colors to cast it all on time
- an average spell of 3.7 mana, which punishes a turn sequenced badly
Those two numbers answer different questions and are deliberately not averaged. A deck can be a pile of bookkeeping that anyone can pilot, or ask you to track nothing and still reward knowing exactly when to attack.
The decklist
All 100 cards, in the order Wizards' own decklist prints them: the commander first, then the deck's new and reprinted spells, then its lands. Hover any card to see it. Repeat printings of a basic land are folded into one line, so the counts add up to 100. The figure beside each card is what a single copy sells for, so a line of seven Forests still shows the price of one.
Commander
The 99
- 1 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier $3.36
- 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage —
- 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen $18.33
- 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince —
- 1 Putrefy $0.35
- 1 Rhys the Redeemed $5.71
- 1 Evolving Wilds $0.28
- 1 Exotic Orchard —
- 1 Vivid Grove $0.39
- 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon $1.14
- 1 Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines $0.44
- 1 Guardian Project $15.63
- 1 Beast Whisperer $9.41
- 1 Chromatic Lantern —
- 1 Emmara, Soul of the Accord $0.31
- 1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound $6.31
- 1 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain $2.66
- 1 Sol Ring $1.87
- 1 Scattered Groves $0.30
- 1 Sheltered Thicket $0.22
- 1 Harmonize $0.32
- 1 Altar of the Pantheon $0.27
- 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy $17.26
- 1 Pongify $2.92
- 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame $2.44
- 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound $7.06
- 1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros // Gideon, Battle-Forged $1.46
- 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer —
- 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist $3.97
- 1 Opulent Palace $0.33
- 1 Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun $2.46
- 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca —
- 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity —
- 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale —
- 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort —
- 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin $2.01
- 1 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca $1.99
- 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove —
- 1 Beast Within $0.70
- 1 Farseek $1.14
- 1 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed $1.86
- 1 Command Tower $0.32
- 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway —
- 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway —
- 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway —
- 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway —
- 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway —
- 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge $15.80
- 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary —
- 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway $4.57
- 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit $2.33
- 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins —
- 1 Sandstone Oracle $0.26
- 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun $5.85
- 1 Meteor Golem $0.28
- 1 Terramorphic Expanse $0.31
- 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway —
- 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway —
- 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway —
- 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway —
- 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor —
- 1 Rimewood Falls $0.44
- 1 Woodland Chasm $0.41
- 1 Kolvori, God of Kinship // The Ringhart Crest $0.35
- 1 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel —
- 1 Plargg, Dean of Chaos // Augusta, Dean of Order $0.34
- 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root $1.06
- 1 Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow —
- 1 Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder $4.23
- 1 Triplicate Titan $1.19
- 1 Diluvian Primordial $0.56
- 1 Seaside Citadel $0.36
- 1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury —
- 1 Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris —
- 1 Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition —
- 1 Tovolar's Huntmaster // Tovolar's Packleader $0.38
- 1 Butcher of Malakir $0.36
- 1 Path of Ancestry —
- 1 Savage Lands $0.35
- 1 Tireless Provisioner $4.09
- 1 Fellwar Stone —
- 1 Urza's Ruinous Blast $1.01
- 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn $0.34
- 1 Commander's Sphere $0.31
- 1 Arcane Signet $0.58
- 1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse $0.32
- 1 Sandsteppe Citadel $0.34
- 1 Plains —
- 1 Swamp —
- 3 Forest —
- 1 Island —
- 1 Mountain —
- 1 Jungle Shrine $0.35
- 1 Frontier Bivouac $0.35
- 1 Time Wipe $0.26
- 1 Utter End $0.28
- 1 The World Tree $7.44
That is what these 100 cards are worth bought individually at market price, as of August 10, 2026. It is not what the sealed deck costs, which is usually a good deal less and is the price you'll see on TCGplayer. It is the card's price rather than this exact printing's, too: a precon list is a list of names, so the copy in this box may be worth more or less. 36 cards are left out of the total because we hold no price for them, so the total is short by whatever they are worth rather than counting them as free.
Card links go through our TCGplayer affiliate link; see our affiliate disclosure. Buying the singles is a different purchase from buying the sealed deck, and usually a more expensive one. The box below is the cheaper way to get all 100 of these.
Combos and synergies
What the creatures have in common
A creature type counts here only when the deck has both the bodies and the cards that name them. Every Commander deck is full of Humans, and almost none of them are Human decks.
- Human 7 bodies · 2 cards name them Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
- Vampire 4 bodies · 2 cards name them Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage , Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
What the cards keep saying
Mechanics the list runs at least three cards of, densest first. This counts what is printed on the cards. A deck that mentions Treasure eight times is doing something with Treasure, whether or not it is the deck's headline.
- 17 Token making Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage , Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Rhys the Redeemed , Emmara, Soul of the Accord and 13 more
- 11 Sacrificing your own permanents Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Evolving Wilds , Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines , Treasure Map // Treasure Cove and 7 more
- 5 +1/+1 counters Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca , Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root , Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow , Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury and 1 more
- 4 Lifegain Altar of the Pantheon , Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun , Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root , Tireless Provisioner
- 3 Graveyard recursion Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity , Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary , Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition
Themes you can build off of
A precon is a starting point, and the useful question is which direction it is already pointing. These are the ones From Cute to Brute has the most of in the box, each with the cards that get it there. You already own all of them.
- Human kindredCreature type7 creatures of the type, and 2 cards that name them Already here: Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
- Token makingMechanic17 cards already carrying it Already here: Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage , Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Rhys the Redeemed , Emmara, Soul of the Accord
- Sacrificing your own permanentsMechanic11 cards already carrying it Already here: Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince , Evolving Wilds , Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines , Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
Picking one of these and leaning into it is usually a better ten-card change than swapping in ten individually stronger cards, because the deck already pays you for it. Our precon upgrade guide covers the order to do that in (mana base first, then the curve, then a real win condition), and the deck builder will hold the list while you work.
4 of these cards have not been read into our catalog yet, so every count on this page is short by whatever they hold rather than wrong about the rest. The nightly import picks them up.
Buying it
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Buy From Cute to Brute on TCGplayer →Frequently asked questions
What is the commander of From Cute to Brute?
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge leads From Cute to Brute, the Commander precon from Secret Lair. The decklist above is the 100 cards the deck ships with, straight out of the box and before any upgrades.
Is this the decklist as it comes in the box?
Yes. This is the product as Wizards printed it, with no substitutions or upgrades of ours, which is what makes it the right starting point for planning changes. Our precon upgrade guide covers what to cut and what to add once you've played a few games with it.
How good is this precon out of the box?
Two faces on most cards means more text to read and a choice at nearly every land drop. We rate it 2 out of 5 on power and 4 out of 5 on how demanding it is to pilot. That is our editorial read, not an official Wizards rating. The precon tier list measures the same deck a different way, by how closely its build matches the shape a deck of its kind should have.
How much is From Cute to Brute worth?
Its 100 cards come to $188.21 bought individually at market price, as of August 10, 2026, leaving out 36 we hold no price for. That is not what the sealed deck costs. A precon is nearly always cheaper than its singles, which is most of the reason to buy one. It is also the price of each card rather than of the exact printing in this box, since a precon list is a list of names, so your copies may be worth more or less.
How does From Cute to Brute play?
Its cards read as go wide, with 17 ramp, 21 card advantage and 14 spot removal across 51 spells averaging 3.7 mana. Those are counts of what is in the box rather than a review. A card can fill more than one of those slots, so they overlap and do not add up to 100.
Is From Cute to Brute hard to play?
Two different answers, and we keep them apart. We rate it 4 out of 5 on how demanding it is to pilot well, which is an editorial opinion. Separately, counting what the printed cards ask you to keep track of, 28 of its 57 nonland cards want you to remember something across 4 different kinds of bookkeeping. That is a 4 out of 5 on that measure, which we call "demanding". A deck can be a pile of bookkeeping anyone can pilot, or ask you to track nothing and still reward knowing exactly when to attack.
What can I build From Cute to Brute into?
The directions it already has the most of are human kindred, token making, sacrificing your own permanents, each one counted from cards already in the box rather than cards to go and buy. Leaning into one of those is usually a better ten-card change than swapping in ten individually stronger cards, because the deck already pays you for it; our precon upgrade guide covers the order to make those changes in.
Can I load this list into TurnZero HQ?
Yes, and without typing it. The app's Deck Lab can start a new deck from any precon in the catalog, this one included, so you get the full list as a deck of your own to edit and then track across your Commander nights.
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