Goreclaw by geoffybubba

Format: Commander

Commander: Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a focused mono-green stompy list piloted by Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma. The core game plan is accelerating mana in the early turns using 1-drop mana elves and 2-drop dorks to cast Goreclaw on Turn 3. Once established, Goreclaw's {2} mana discount on creature spells with power 4 or greater turns massive mid-game beaters into highly efficient threats. The deck chains creature deployments into continuous card draw through static engines like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and The Great Henge. Combat pressure peaks around Turn 5 when Goreclaw attacks to give the team bonus power and trample, culminating in a Turn 6 table knockout via decisive overruns like Overwhelming Stampede or Unnatural Growth. Defensively, the deck relies on efficient instant-speed hexproof and indestructible spells to protect its board against conventional removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Battle Mammoth
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 26 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Hashep Oasis
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Old One Eye
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sawtusk Demolisher
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Surrak, the Hunt Caller
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Tranquil Frillback
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Yeva, Nature's Herald