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Ghalta, Primal Hunger · G · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Strategy
Ghalta costs twelve on paper and two in practice. Its cost drops by the total power on your board, so this is not a ramp deck pretending to be a big creature deck - it is a deck of cheap, absurdly high power creatures whose job is to make the commander castable, and then to trample over everything.
Early: Dorks first - Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Arbor Elf - but the real enablers are the cheap fat: Steel Leaf Champion is five power for three mana, Yorvo arrives as a four four for three, and Llanowar Tribe taps for three. Two of those on the board and Ghalta costs about four.
Mid: Power is also the draw engine. Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkar's Expertise and Garruk's Packleader all convert a big creature into a handful of cards, and Garruk's Uprising does both at once while granting the trample this deck badly wants. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds turns that same power into mana. Surrak, the Hunt Caller gives Ghalta haste the turn it lands, which is often the difference between winning and eating a removal spell.
Late: Green has no counterspells, so removal is handled by fighting: Ram Through, Ulvenwald Tracker and Apex Altisaur all use the deck's own oversized creatures as the answer. Beast Within is the catch-all. Unnatural Growth doubles the whole board and usually ends the game on the spot, and Vaultborn Tyrant and Silverback Elder keep the cards flowing if things go long.
Win conditions: Wins by trampling over the table with Ghalta and the other oversized creatures, usually after a single doubling effect or a fight spell clears the blocker.
- Steel Leaf Champion - Five power for three - makes Ghalta cheap
- Garruk's Uprising - Trample plus a card per big creature
- Surrak, the Hunt Caller - Haste for Ghalta the turn it lands
- Return of the Wildspeaker - Draws a handful off one creature
- Ram Through - Removal that uses your own size
- Unnatural Growth - Doubles the board, usually ends it
- Selvala, Heart of the Wilds - Turns power into mana
- Natural Order - Finds the creature that matters
~$690.57
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Creatures (48)
Topiary Stomper
Creature — Plant Dinosaur
$0.68
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.
Hulking Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur
$2.63
Ward {2}
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}{G}.
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.
Surrak, the Hunt Caller
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$0.13
Formidable — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Wayward Swordtooth
Creature — Dinosaur
$3.69
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.
Pugnacious Hammerskull
Creature — Dinosaur
$0.62
Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
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.
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.)
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Managorger Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$0.92
Trample
Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
Legendary Creature — Giant Noble
$0.29
Yorvo enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another green creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.
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.
Defiler of Vigor
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$3.71
Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Frenzied Baloth
Creature — Beast
$1.81
This spell can't be countered.
Trample, haste
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Combat damage can't be prevented.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Rampaging Baloths
Creature — Beast
$0.28
Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
Thrashing Brontodon
Creature — Dinosaur
$0.15
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Surrak and Goreclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Bear
$21.52
Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
Slumbering Trudge
Creature — Plant Beast
$0.42
This creature enters with a number of stun counters on it equal to three minus X. If X is 2 or less, it enters tapped. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Prowling Serpopard
Creature — Cat Snake
$3.58
This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Steel Leaf Champion
Creature — Elf Knight
$0.57
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Karametra's Acolyte
Creature — Human Druid
$0.36
{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
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.
Rhonas the Indomitable
Legendary Creature — God
$5.2
Deathtouch, indestructible
Rhonas can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater.
{2}{G}: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Outcaster Trailblazer
Creature — Human Druid
$1.65
When this creature enters, add one mana of any color.
Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Plot {2}{G} (You may pay {2}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
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.
Terastodon
Creature — Elephant
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Scavenging Ooze
Creature — Ooze
$0.19
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
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.
Railway Brawler
Creature — Rhino Warrior
$6.54
Reach, trample
Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Agonasaur Rex
Creature — Dinosaur
$0.45
Trample
Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature or Vehicle. It gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.
Elder Gargaroth
Creature — Beast
$1.59
Reach, vigilance, trample
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, choose one —
• Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
• You gain 3 life.
• Draw a card.
Garruk's Packleader
Creature — Beast
$0.16
Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.
Aggressive Mammoth
Creature — Elephant
$0.37
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Other creatures you control have trample.
Ilysian Caryatid
Creature — Plant
$0.22
{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.
Regal Imperiosaur
Creature — Dinosaur
$0.48
Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1.
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.)
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.
Ulvenwald Tracker
Creature — Human Shaman
$5.35
{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.
Apex Altisaur
Creature — Dinosaur
$8.59
When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Instants (4)
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.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Ram Through
Instant
$0.37
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Sorceries (5)
Majestic Genesis
Sorcery
$3.8
Reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. You may put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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.
Natural Order
Sorcery
$14.74
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a green creature.
Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Ezuri's Predation
Sorcery
$2.91
For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.
Season of Gathering
Sorcery
$5.89
Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
{P} — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn.
{P}{P} — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type.
{P}{P}{P} — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
Artifacts (1)
Tangleweave Armor
Artifact — Equipment
$0.32
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders.
Equip {4}
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.
Unnatural Growth
Enchantment
$2.63
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Lands (39)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
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.
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.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Cactus Preserve
Land — Desert
$2.7
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
{3}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Plant creature with reach, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders. It's still a land.
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.
Bonders' Enclave
Land
$0.36
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
War Room
Land
$5.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Evendo, Waking Haven
Land — Planet
$17.9
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | {G}, {T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Basic lands: 27 Forest
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