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Maelstrom Wanderer - community staples
Maelstrom Wanderer · GRU · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 38Instants 8Sorceries 11Artifacts 1Enchantments 2Lands 39
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Strategy
Maelstrom Wanderer leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it. The list holds 17 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 4.67.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Genesis Ultimatum and the other 17 ramp pieces exist to get Maelstrom Wanderer out well before its printed cost of 8 would allow.
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. Hullbreaker Horror is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Garruk's Uprising keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Balefire Dragon for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 4.67 average mana value the top end is genuinely expensive - land drops matter.
Win conditions: Wins through the commander and the strongest threats the colours offer, backed by real interaction.
- Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty - Core to the plan
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma - Core to the plan
- Etali, Primal Storm - Core to the plan
- Apex Devastator - Core to the plan
- Genesis Ultimatum - Ramp
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom - Ramp
- Skyshroud Claim - Ramp
- Somberwald Sage - Ramp
~$500.67
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Maelstrom Wanderer
Legendary Creature — Elemental
Creatures you control have haste.
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Creatures (38)
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Legendary Creature — Snake Druid
$0.31
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Legendary Creature — Bear
$2.84
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman
$0.36
As you cascade, you may put a land card from among the exiled cards onto the battlefield tapped. (Do this after the last card is exiled but before deciding whether to cast a nonland card.)
Somberwald Sage
Creature — Human Druid
$0.5
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Temur Sabertooth
Creature — Cat
$0.88
{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout
$5.3
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.72
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Thryx, the Sudden Storm
Legendary Creature — Elemental Giant
$0.22
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.
Consecrated Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
$25.58
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Surrak Dragonclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$3
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Other creatures you control have trample.
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid Scout
$5.33
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources.
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.
Temur Battlecrier
Creature — Orc Ranger
$1.22
During your turn, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
Bloodbraid Elf
Creature — Elf Berserker
$0.25
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Pathbreaker Ibex
Creature — Goat
$15.05
Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Trumpeting Carnosaur
Creature — Dinosaur
$1.91
Trample
When this creature enters, discover 5.
{2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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.
Terror of the Peaks
Creature — Dragon
$23.62
Flying
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.
Quandrix, the Proof
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
$1.38
Flying, trample
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast from your hand have cascade.
Sakashima's Protege
Creature — Shapeshifter
$0.42
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
Artifact Creature — Minotaur Wizard Sorcerer
$0.24
{1}{U}{R}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Kodama of the East Tree
Legendary Creature — Spirit
$3.72
Reach
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Fanatic of Rhonas
Creature — Snake Druid
$15.89
{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{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 Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Shardless Agent
Artifact Creature — Human Rogue
$0.35
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
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.
Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
Legendary Creature — Dragon
$0.46
Flying
Whenever Drakuseth attacks, it deals 4 damage to any target and 3 damage to each of up to two other targets.
Nezahal, Primal Tide
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$8.64
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Bloodbraid Challenger
Creature — Elf Berserker
$0.32
Cascade
Haste
Escape—{3}{R}{G}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Balefire Dragon
Creature — Dragon
$14.83
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.
Delighted Halfling
Creature — Halfling Citizen
$27.19
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Inferno Titan
Creature — Giant
$0.23
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.
Kogla and Yidaro
Legendary Creature — Ape Dinosaur Turtle
$2.32
When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one —
• It gains trample and haste until end of turn.
• It fights target creature you don't control.
{2}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.
Starwinder
Creature — Leviathan
$1.03
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.
Warp {2}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Druid
$0.19
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Vaultborn Tyrant
Creature — Dinosaur
$36
Trample
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card.
When this creature dies, if it's not a token, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Instants (8)
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Chaos Warp
Instant
$0.3
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Brainstorm
Instant
$1.27
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Delayed Blast Fireball
Instant
$14.86
Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead.
Foretell {4}{R}{R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Return of the Wildspeaker
Instant
$1.43
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Brainsurge
Instant
$0.34
Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Pongify
Instant
$2
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Sorceries (11)
Genesis Ultimatum
Sorcery
$0.21
Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand. Exile Genesis Ultimatum.
Skyshroud Claim
Sorcery
$0.87
Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Cultivate
Sorcery
$0.36
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Farseek
Sorcery
$0.46
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Kodama's Reach
Sorcery — Arcane
$1.5
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Nature's Lore
Sorcery
$1.8
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.41
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Three Visits
Sorcery
$5.8
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Rishkar's Expertise
Sorcery
$4.55
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Inevitable Betrayal
Sorcery
$1.09
Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Ponder
Sorcery
$1.77
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Artifacts (1)
Sensei's Divining Top
Artifact
$35.46
{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Enchantments (2)
Garruk's Uprising
Enchantment
$0.51
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Wild Growth
Enchantment — Aura
$0.39
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.
Lands (39)
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
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.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.3
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Otawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
$26.49
{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Sanctum of Eternity
Land
$7.2
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.
Kessig Wolf Run
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Castle Garenbrig
Land
$8.92
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
Command Beacon
Land
$7.91
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Mistrise Village
Land
$6.98
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Basic lands: 14 Forest 7 Island 6 Mountain
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