Mardu Surge by user5485147

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Mardu token and aristocrat engine commanded by Zurgo Stormrender. The strategy revolves around generating waves of creature tokens through Mobilize and attack-triggered token producers, leveraging Zurgo's ability to draw cards when attacking tokens leave the battlefield and drain opponents when non-attacking tokens perish. The early game focuses on establishing colored mana and deploying Zurgo alongside aggressive low-curve token enablers. During the mid-game, the deck compounds board presence using token multipliers like Isshin, Two Heavens as One and Thalisse, Reverent Medium, while keeping hands full via continuous sacrifice triggers. The primary win condition culminates around Turn 6 to 8, utilizing mass drain effects from Commissar Severina Raine and Within Range, or devastating combat overruns with Moonshaker Cavalry and Goldnight Commander. Defensive tools like Grand Crescendo protect the board, while efficient Mardu spot removal answers problematic opposing permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Company Commander
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fervent Charge
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Goldnight Commander
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Leonin Warleader
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Marshal of the Lost
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mindblade Render
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Rose, Cutthroat Raider
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Twilight Drover
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Within Range
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender
  • 1 Zurgo's Vanguard