CEDH Etali, Primal Conqueror by austinvang

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a high-velocity Gruul storm-combo deck helmed by Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness. The plan is to accelerate out explosive mana, then either resolve a cascading Etali, Primal Conqueror ETB (often copied multiple times) or assemble self-contained infinite lines in the 99. Primary wins come from Food Chain + Squee, the Immortal generating infinite creature mana, Underworld Breach escape loops with rituals and Lion's Eye Diamond, and Dualcaster/copy packages (Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame/Heat Shimmer, Splinter Twin, Rionya, Fire Dancer) that flood the board with hasty threats. The back face offers a poison clock once transformed, but the deck rarely needs it. Hellkite Courser cheats the commander into play with haste as a backup deployment line. Dense free interaction and protection let the deck push through contested tables while the low curve and ritual suite keep the clock extremely tight.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindle the Inner Flame
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter Twin
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 _____ Goblin