Mardu Surge - Upgraded by Odium

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zurgo Stormrender leads a Mardu token-and-aristocrats shell. The main plan is to attack with Zurgo every turn, using his mobilized 1/1 Warrior to draw on the end step, while token producers like Legion Warboss, Ophiomancer, and Adeline flood the board. Drain permanents-Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Mirkwood Bats-turn sacrificed tokens into life loss. Secondary paths are a go-wide Angel finish under Divine Visitation and a sacrifice/Plumb burst that refills the hand and triggers multiple death drains. The commander is the card-advantage engine; without him the deck still functions but loses its best repeatable draw.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Agate Instigator
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boomer Scrapper
• 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Construct a Cosmic Cube
• 1 Crackling Doom
• 1 Dalkovan Encampment
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Divine Visitation
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Falkenrath Noble
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Head of the Hunt
• 1 Hero of Bladehold
• 1 Hour of Reckoning
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jacked Rabbit
• 1 Killing Wave
• 1 Kinbinding
• 1 Legion Warboss
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Loyal Apprentice
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Martial Coup
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortify
• 4 Mountain
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phoenix Fleet Airship
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 4 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
• 1 Rhovanion Rampager
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shattered Landscape
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tempt with Vengeance
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Seriema
• 1 Tragedy Feaster
• 1 Tragic Slip
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Vein Ripper
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Will of the Mardu
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1 Zurgo Stormrender