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Honest Rutstein · BG · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Strategy
Honest Rutstein leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, filling the graveyard and bringing threats back from it. The list holds 13 ramp pieces, 12 pieces of targeted interaction, 4 board wipes and 11 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.21.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. Sakura-Tribe Elder and the rest of the 13 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Honest Rutstein on curve and keep casting after it.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Ravenous Chupacabra is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Beast Whisperer keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Massacre Wurm for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 4 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.21 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins by putting something far too large onto the battlefield far too early, repeatedly.
- Beast Whisperer - Card draw
- Ravenous Chupacabra - Interaction
- Soul of the Harvest - Card draw
- Accursed Marauder - Interaction
- Shriekmaw - Interaction
- Timeless Witness - Core to the plan
- Grim Haruspex - Card draw
- Eternal Witness - Core to the plan
~$397.30
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Honest Rutstein
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Creatures (59)
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Ravenous Chupacabra
Creature — Beast Horror
$0.41
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.39
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Accursed Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.28
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Shriekmaw
Creature — Elemental
$0.22
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Timeless Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.3
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Grim Haruspex
Creature — Human Wizard
$2.61
Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Midnight Reaper
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.23
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
$1.21
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.34
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Haywire Mite
Artifact Creature — Insect
$0.46
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Morbid Opportunist
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.23
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Viscera Seer
Creature — Vampire Wizard
$0.42
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Wood Elves
Creature — Elf Scout
$0.15
When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Wight of the Reliquary
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.42
Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Stitcher's Supplier
Creature — Zombie
$0.23
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Massacre Wurm
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$1.81
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Aftermath Analyst
Creature — Elf Detective
$0.71
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Plaguecrafter
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.36
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Skull Prophet
Creature — Human Druid
$0.79
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Cankerbloom
Creature — Phyrexian Fungus
$0.35
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Satyr Wayfinder
Creature — Satyr
$0.06
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Blood Artist
Creature — Vampire
$2.67
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Elves of Deep Shadow
Creature — Elf Druid
$4.42
{T}: Add {B}. This creature deals 1 damage to you.
Zulaport Cutthroat
Creature — Human Rogue Ally
$1.02
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Bringer of the Last Gift
Creature — Vampire Demon
$0.87
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.
Bane of Progress
Creature — Elemental
$0.28
When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman
$2.69
Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Spinner of Souls
Creature — Spider Spirit
$0.51
Reach
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Fauna Shaman
Creature — Elf Shaman
$3.56
{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Undead Butler
Creature — Zombie
$0.32
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Nylea, Keen-Eyed
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
$4.74
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.
Umbral Collar Zealot
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.36
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Primordial Sage
Creature — Spirit
$0.87
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may draw a card.
Massacre Girl
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
$0.59
Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Glissa Sunslayer
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Elf
$0.59
First strike, deathtouch
Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You draw a card and lose 1 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Remove up to three counters from target permanent.
Silverback Elder
Creature — Ape Shaman
$7.48
Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
$1.08
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Foundation Breaker
Creature — Elemental
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Six
Legendary Creature — Treefolk
$4.81
Reach
Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand.
During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
Poison-Tip Archer
Creature — Elf Archer
$0.57
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Old Stickfingers
Legendary Creature — Horror
$0.3
When you cast this spell, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Noxious Gearhulk
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.39
Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Old Rutstein
Legendary Creature — Human Peasant
$0.45
When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.
Deathrite Shaman
Creature — Elf Shaman
$4.69
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color. (Activate only as an instant.)
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Umori, the Collector
Legendary Creature — Ooze
$0.32
Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck shares a card type. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
As Umori enters, choose a card type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
Kogla, the Titan Ape
Legendary Creature — Ape
$2.82
When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
{1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.
Fell Stinger
Creature — Zombie Scorpion
$0.18
Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Alpha Deathclaw
Creature — Lizard Mutant
$2.15
Menace, trample
When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, destroy target permanent.
{5}{B}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
Hollow Marauder
Creature — Specter Rogue
$0.12
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flying
When this creature enters, any number of target opponents each discard a card. For each of those opponents who didn't discard a card with mana value 4 or greater, draw a card.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
$4.18
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Augur of Autumn
Creature — Human Druid
$0.34
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Instants (2)
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Sorceries (1)
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Lands (37)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Legendary Land
$11.85
{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land
$28.43
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Shifting Woodland
Land
$7.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Dakmor Salvage
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Grim Backwoods
Land
$0.16
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
Basic lands: 12 Swamp 13 Forest
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