gruul control by Fausten

Format: Commander

Commander: Klothys, God of Destiny

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Gruul attrition-control deck helmed by Klothys, God of Destiny, built around a core of punishing enchantments that damage opponents for playing lands, tapping lands, and casting spells. The primary game plan is to deploy a suite of symmetric tax effects-Manabarbs, Ankh of Mishra, Dingus Egg, Roiling Vortex-and then protect them while accelerating the damage through land destruction, fetch lands, and damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. The commander provides incremental graveyard hate and a steady 2-damage-per-turn clock, but the deck does not rely on her. Win conditions are purely noncombat damage, either from the cumulative pressure of the punisher enchantments or from a burst spell like Price of Progress or Chandra's Incinerator multiplied by the damage-doubling effects. The deck has no infinite combos and no counterspells, relying instead on permanent-based inevitability and land recursion via Crucible of Worlds and Splendid Reclamation to outlast opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cindervines
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Destructive Revelry
  • 1 Dingus Egg
  • 1 Donnie's Bō
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Escape to the Wilds
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Highland Forest
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Ruination
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid