Ruric Thar, Face Beater by dngs

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Gruul Stompy deck leverages an almost all-permanent construction consisting of 99 permanents and a single copy of Primal Surge. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns using 18 low-cost mana dorks and land auras, deploying early hatebears like Collector Ouphe, Harsh Mentor, and Magebane Lizard to suppress artifact mana and fast combo lines. On Turn 4, the deck deploys Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, imposing a punishing 6-damage trigger on every noncreature spell while establishing a dominant 6/6 vigilance attacker. The mid-game expands this pressure with heavy beaters and extra combat enablers such as Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Scourge of the Throne, and End-Raze Forerunners, alongside card engines like Toski, Bearer of Secrets and Dragonborn Champion. If drawn, resolving Primal Surge puts the entire library onto the battlefield for an immediate win with mass haste.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Augur of Autumn
• 1 Bane of Progress
• 1 Boreal Druid
• 1 Carpet of Flowers
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Collector Ouphe
• 1 Combat Celebrant
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Desert Were-Worm
• 1 Dragonborn Champion
• 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 End-Raze Forerunners
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fertile Ground
• 14 Forest
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Packleader
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Grotag Night-Runner
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Guardian Augmenter
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Hugs, Grisly Guardian
• 1 Ilysian Caryatid
• 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
• 1 Magebane Lizard
• 1 Manglehorn
• 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 10 Mountain
• 1 Mul Daya Channelers
• 1 Ogre Battledriver
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
• 1 Primal Surge
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sanctum Weaver
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Scab-Clan Berserker
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Selfless Safewright
• 1 Shadow in the Warp
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Silverback Elder
• 1 Sunder Shaman
• 1 Sylvan Caryatid
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Training Compound
• 1 Urabrask the Hidden
• 1 Utopia Sprawl
• 1 Wayward Swordtooth
• 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline
• 1 Zhur-Taa Druid