Zurgo-a-gogo by Grimm88

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zurgo Stormrender leads a Mardu token-attrition strategy: attacking creates 1/1 Warriors, then their end-step sacrifice draws cards and triggers drains. The primary plan is to build a wide army with Mobilize creatures, double attack triggers with Isshin/Windcrag Siege, and multiply every token with Anointed Procession, Mondrak, or Exalted Sunborn. Damage is dealt through enter/dies triggers (Purphoros, Impact Tremors, Warleader's Call, Mirkwood Bats), attack triggers, and end-step effects. Secondary lines use Devastating Onslaught or Kindred Charge to turn a small token into a huge swarm, and Goblin Bombardment/Sanguinary Priest convert sacrifices into removal/damage. The commander is simultaneously the card-draw engine and token source, but redundant token makers mean the deck still functions if he is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Avenger of the Fallen
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brutal Hordechief
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dragonback Lancer
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
  • 1 Fervor
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Gornog, the Red Reaper
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Inquisitorial Rosette
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Kefka Palazzo
  • 1 Kindred Charge
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Neriv, Heart of the Storm
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orc Sureshot
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanguinary Priest
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shocking Sharpshooter
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Suki, Kyoshi Captain
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Jolly Balloon Man
  • 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Zurgo Helmsmasher
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender
  • 1 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree