New Untitled Deck by Zol

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Ruric Thar, the Unbowed deck executes an aggressive Gruul Stompy game plan paired with anti-noncreature punisher effects. Running 54 creature permanents alongside dense 1-2 CMC ramp allows the deck to consistently cast Ruric Thar on Turn 4. Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to any player casting a noncreature spell, heavily punishing opponents who rely on instant interaction, board wipes, or combo turns while allowing this deck to advance its board unharmed. Additional tax pieces like Harsh Mentor, Scytheclaw Raptor, and Manglehorn further disrupt opposing artifact mana, activated abilities, and off-turn spells. The deck sustains its hand through creature-based card draw engines like Beast Whisperer, Toski, and Garruk's Uprising. Lethal pressure mounts on Turn 5 with massive beaters like Ghalta and Ilharg, culminating in a table finish by Turn 7 via End-Raze Forerunners and Kessig Wolf Run. The deck is vulnerable to fast go-wide creature decks and lacks instant stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Borborygmos
  • 1 Borborygmos Enraged
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Horde
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Ragebeast
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hamletback Goliath
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Molder Slug
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Primal Surge
  • 1 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Stormbreath Dragon
  • 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
  • 1 Zhur-Taa Druid