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Surrak and Goreclaw · G · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 45Instants 7Sorceries 5Artifacts 1Enchantments 2Lands 39
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Strategy
Surrak and Goreclaw 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 18 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 4.10.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea and the other 18 ramp pieces exist to get Surrak and Goreclaw out well before its printed cost of 6 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 Elder Gargaroth keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Bane of Progress 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 4.10 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.
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma - Core to the plan
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger - Core to the plan
- Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea - Ramp
- Defiler of Vigor - Core to the plan
- Silverback Elder - Ramp
- Kami of Whispered Hopes - Ramp
- Fanatic of Rhonas - Ramp
- Elder Gargaroth - Card draw
~$808.68
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Surrak and Goreclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Bear
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.
Creatures (45)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kami of Whispered Hopes
Creature — Spirit
$4.75
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
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.)
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.
Jumbo Cactuar
Creature — Plant
$4.64
10,000 Needles — Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +9999/+0 until end of turn.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Apex Devastator
Creature — Chimera Hydra
$7.72
Cascade, cascade, 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. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
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.)
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.)
Craterhoof Behemoth
Creature — Beast
$22.57
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures 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.
Quilled Greatwurm
Creature — Wurm
$3.21
Trample
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.)
You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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.
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.
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.39
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Renata, Called to the Hunt
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod
$0.23
Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
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.
Circle of Dreams Druid
Creature — Elf Druid
$17.5
{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.
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.
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.
Champion of Lambholt
Creature — Human Warrior
$2.81
Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block creatures you control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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.
Gyre Sage
Creature — Elf Druid
$0.85
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Garruk's Packleader
Creature — Beast
$0.16
Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.
Hulking Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur
$2.63
Ward {2}
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}{G}.
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.
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.
Instants (7)
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Heroic Intervention
Instant
$9.16
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
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.
Nature's Claim
Instant
$0.57
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
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.
Sorceries (5)
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.
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.
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 (1)
Enchantments (2)
Tribute to the World Tree
Enchantment
$14.08
Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.
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)
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.)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
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.
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Land
$0.37
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Basic lands: 27 Forest
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