Mardu Surge (Tarkir Dragonstorm Commander Precon Decklist) by Gruumy

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mardu tokens-aristocrats deck helmed by Zurgo Stormrender. The plan floods the board with creature tokens from efficient generators, then converts them into cards, mana, and life-drain via sacrifice outlets and death-trigger payoffs. Zurgo Stormrender attacks to Mobilize a Warrior, then draws whenever attacking tokens leave or drains the table when non-attacking tokens die-turning every chump block, end-step sacrifice, or Skullclamp activation into advantage. Primary wins come from aristocrats drains (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Teysa Karlov) and go-wide combat, backed by infinite loops through Ashnod's Altar/Phyrexian Altar plus Nim Deathmantle or Pitiless Plunderer. Secondary paths include doubled token swarms off Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Kaya, Geist Hunter. The deck plays as a midrange value engine that grinds opponents out through repeated token cycles and table-wide life loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Beetleback Chief
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Hero of Bladehold
• 1 Hour of Reckoning
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1 Legion Warboss
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Loyal Apprentice
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nim Deathmantle
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Ogre Battledriver
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 5 Plains
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
• 1 Release the Dogs
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shattered Landscape
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 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 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Tocasia's Welcome
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Will of the Mardu
• 1 Windbrisk Heights
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1 Zurgo Stormrender