Grull Exile by DouggTaborda

Format: Commander

Commander: Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul midrange engine piloted by Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald. It turns the mechanic of playing cards from exile into explosive board presence by generating a 2/2 green Wolf token whenever a spell is cast or a land enters from exile. Supported by a dense suite of impulse draw, cascade cards, and exile engines like Valakut Exploration, Party Thrasher, and Bonehoard Dracosaur, the deck rapidly cycles through its library while building a wide token army. It converts creature density into massive mana using Cryptolith Rite and Enduring Vitality, then closes out the game on Turns 5 to 6 with decisive overrun effects like Beastmaster Ascension and Craterhoof Behemoth or lethal burn triggers from Purphoros, God of the Forge, Passionate Archaeologist, and Terror of the Peaks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Audacious Swap
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Cait Sith, Fortune Teller
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charred Foyer // Warped Space
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cindervines
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crossover Collaboration
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hugs, Grisly Guardian
  • 1 Ignite the Future
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Inspired Tinkering
  • 1 Interdimensional Web Watch
  • 1 Invasion of Kaldheim // Pyre of the World Tree
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nico Minoru, Runaway
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savvy Trader
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Torgal, A Fine Hound
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wild Wasteland
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
  • 1 Xenagos, the Reveler