New Untitled Deck by user6823608

Format: Commander

Commander: Nikya of the Old Ways

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

Led by Nikya of the Old Ways, this Gruul deck operates as a creature-heavy Big Mana Stompy engine. It leverages a dense suite of 1-2 CMC mana dorks to deploy Nikya on Turn 3 or 4, instantly doubling all land mana output. With 8 to 12+ mana available each turn, the deck deploys high-volume card draw engines like Beast Whisperer and Soul of the Harvest to chain massive threats into play. The deck closes games around Turn 5 or 6 using game-ending overruns such as Craterhoof Behemoth, Apex Devastator, Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus, or an infinite combat loop with Hellkite Charger and Old Gnawbone. Because it features 62 creatures and only a single sorcery, it breaks parity effortlessly on asymmetric taxing floodgates like Ruric Thar, the Unbowed and Nullstone Gargoyle. While vulnerable to mass sweepers and lacking instant-speed noncreature interaction, its overwhelming mana velocity, redundant draw engines, and lethal combat pressure consistently overrun opposing tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Bighorner Rancher
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Horned Kavu
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magus of the Candelabra
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nikya of the Old Ways
  • 1 Nullstone Gargoyle
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Primal Surge
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Winding Canyons
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus