Eshki, Temur's Roar - Big Guys by taehror

Format: Commander

Commander: Eshki, Temur's Roar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Temur stompy and burn engine commanded by Eshki, Temur's Roar. The strategy revolves around exploiting alternate casting mechanics like Evoke, Warp, and Impending alongside undercosted high-stat creatures to trigger Eshki on cast. Casting creatures with power 4 or greater draws cards, while creatures with power 6 or greater deal burn damage to all opponents equal to Eshki's scaling power. Dense 1-2 CMC ramp ensures Eshki enters on turn 3, enabling explosive sequences on turns 4 and 5 where multiple large spells draw cards, burn the table, and establish a dominant board. Support cards like The Great Henge, Temur Ascendancy, and Garruk's Uprising provide redundant draw and haste, while free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Fierce Guardianship protects the board. The deck reliably closes out games on turn 6 through a mix of scaled noncombat burn and overwhelming trample combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bristlebane Battler
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spitebellows
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 The Foretold Soldier
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wistfulness
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast