Big Mana! by user4322228

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruby, Daring Tracker

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul Big Mana Stompy strategy that utilizes Ruby, Daring Tracker in the command zone as a guaranteed two-mana ramp accelerant. The deck features extreme redundancy in four-mana double land-ramp sorceries, allowing it to reliably curve from Ruby on turn 2 into a ramp spell on turn 3, reaching seven mana by turn 4. Once big mana is established, the list deploys a succession of high-impact creatures including Vaultborn Tyrant, Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient, Old Gnawbone, and Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus. Power-based draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and Return of the Wildspeaker keep hand sizes full while trample and damage-doubling effects close out games over two combat rotations. While resilient to creature board wipes due to an untouchable land-based mana foundation, the deck operates with virtually no low-cost instant-speed interaction or stack protection, leaving it vulnerable to fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Cartographer's Survey
  • 1 Celebrate the Harvest
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Gigantic Big Bear
  • 1 Green Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hunting Wilds
  • 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Map the Frontier
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 New Generation's Technique
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Path of the Animist
  • 1 Peregrination
  • 1 Ranger's Path
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reach the Horizon
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhino, Barreling Brute
  • 1 Riders of the Mark
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stalking Vengeance
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Terramorph
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Tyrant's Familiar
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vastwood Surge
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Yidaro, Wandering Monster
  • 1 Zimone's Experiment
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus