Ghalta Primal Momma by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused big-mana stompy strategy centered on its commander, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant. Early turns deploy an array of efficient 1-to-3 mana dorks, land-search spells, and mana engines like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and Priest of Titania. Simultaneously, power-matter draw enchantments such as Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and Guardian Project ensure the pilot's hand stays stocked with devastating high-CMC behemoths. By turn 5, the deck reaches 8 mana to cast Ghalta, triggering its enter-the-battlefield ability to dump threats like Worldspine Wurm, Blightsteel Colossus, and Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus onto the battlefield at once. While it lacks built-in haste on every creature, protective spells like Heroic Intervention and Allosaurus Shepherd safeguard the board from sweepers and countermagic during the single table rotation before untapping to deliver an overwhelming multi-player combat finish on turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 33 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karametra's Acolyte
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Lovestruck Beast // Heart's Desire
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus