OnlyPermanents by DillyDally

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Gruul Stompy strategy engineered with an all-permanent shell to capitalize on Ruric Thar, the Unbowed and an occasional game-ending Primal Surge. The deck leverages 14 pieces of low-cost mana acceleration to establish 5-6 mana by Turn 4, deploying Ruric Thar to severely penalize opponents reliant on noncreature spells, board wipes, and artifact ramp. Once Ruric Thar establishes board oppression, the deck curves into colossal beaters and force multipliers such as Surrak and Goreclaw, Titan of Industry, and Unnatural Growth. Continuous card flow from permanents like Garruk's Uprising, Beast Whisperer, and Toski, Bearer of Secrets ensures steady gas without triggering self-inflicted damage from Ruric Thar. While the list lacks instant-speed stack interaction, its creature-based removal suite consistently dismantles problematic artifacts and enchantments while crushing opponents under massive trample combat damage across Turns 5 through 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Borborygmos
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Horde
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goblin War Drums
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gruul Ragebeast
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hamletback Goliath
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Primal Surge
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Slippery Karst
  • 1 Smoldering Crater
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid