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Old Gnawbone · G · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 41Instants 10Sorceries 6Artifacts 2Enchantments 1Lands 39
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Strategy
Old Gnawbone leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting +1/+1 counters on things and growing them out of range. The list holds 19 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 4.25.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Jaheira, Friend of the Forest and the other 19 ramp pieces exist to get Old Gnawbone out well before its printed cost of 7 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. Beast Within is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Ohran Frostfang keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Rampage of the Clans 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 4.25 average mana value the top end is genuinely expensive - land drops matter.
Win conditions: Wins by growing a threat past what the table can answer and connecting with it.
- Academy Manufactor - Core to the plan
- Ancient Bronze Dragon - Core to the plan
- Displaced Dinosaurs - Core to the plan
- Canopy Gargantuan - Core to the plan
- Jaheira, Friend of the Forest - Ramp
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger - Core to the plan
- Fangren Marauder - Core to the plan
- Bootleggers' Stash - Ramp
~$567.38
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Old Gnawbone
Legendary Creature — Dragon
Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create that many Treasure tokens.
Creatures (41)
Academy Manufactor
Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker
$7.86
If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.
Ancient Bronze Dragon
Creature — Elder Dragon
$17.66
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on each of up to two target creatures, where X is the result.
Displaced Dinosaurs
Creature — Dinosaur
$10.49
As a historic permanent you control enters, it becomes a 7/7 Dinosaur creature in addition to its other types. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Canopy Gargantuan
Creature — Dragon
$4.45
Flying, ward {2}
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a number of +1/+1 counters on each other creature you control equal to that creature's toughness.
Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
Legendary Creature — Human Elf Druid
$11.23
Tokens you control have "{T}: Add {G}."
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Fangren Marauder
Creature — Beast
$0.4
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may gain 5 life.
Ohran Frostfang
Snow Creature — Snake
$7.45
Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
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.
Seedborn Muse
Creature — Spirit
$15.44
Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Toski, Bearer of Secrets
Legendary Creature — Squirrel
$6.54
This spell can't be countered.
Indestructible
Toski attacks each combat if able.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Tireless Provisioner
Creature — Elf Scout
$2.32
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$12.26
Reach
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
{G/P}{G/P}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
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.)
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.
Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$28.56
Trample
When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Goldvein Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$3.32
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
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.
Vigor
Creature — Elemental Incarnation
$2.49
Trample
If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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.
Circle of Dreams Druid
Creature — Elf Druid
$17.5
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.
Nyxbloom Ancient
Enchantment Creature — Elemental
$28.23
Trample
If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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.
Teething Wurmlet
Creature — Wurm
$0.36
This creature has deathtouch as long as you control three or more artifacts.
Whenever an artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life. If this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Questing Beast
Legendary Creature — Beast
$2.77
Vigilance, deathtouch, haste
Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.
Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.
The Tarrasque
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur
$3.17
The Tarrasque has haste and ward {10} as long as it was cast.
Whenever The Tarrasque attacks, it fights target creature defending player controls.
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.39
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Green Dragon
Creature — Dragon
$0.19
Flying
Poison Breath — When this creature enters, until end of turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls is dealt damage, destroy it.
Instants (10)
Heroic Intervention
Instant
$9.16
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
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.
Nature's Claim
Instant
$0.57
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Instant
$4.61
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Krosan Grip
Instant
$0.77
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Return to Nature
Instant
$0.17
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Hunter's Insight
Instant
$0.31
Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.
Rampage of the Clans
Instant
$0.4
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. For each permanent destroyed this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.
Sorceries (6)
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.
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.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.41
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Nature's Lore
Sorcery
$1.8
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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.
Artifacts (2)
Bootleggers' Stash
Artifact
$0.36
Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."
Enchantments (1)
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.
Lands (39)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this 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.
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.)
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.
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.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Treasure Vault
Artifact Land
$1.35
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.
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.
Lair of the Hydra
Land
$0.37
If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{X}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.
Inventors' Fair
Legendary Land
$18.95
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Basic lands: 27 Forest
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