Gluntch Grouphug by iggy021

Format: Commander

Commander: Gluntch, the Bestower

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Selesnya deck combines a political +1/+1 counters shell with a compact creature-based infinite combo. Commanded by Gluntch, the Bestower, the deck leverages early Treasure acceleration and steady card draw to smooth mana development and assemble its key pieces. The primary win condition revolves around Rosie Cotton of South Lane paired with either Basking Broodscale or Herd Baloth. Once both creatures are on the battlefield, creating any token triggers Rosie to place a +1/+1 counter on Broodscale, which in turn generates an Eldrazi Spawn token to repeat the cycle indefinitely. This produces infinite colorless mana, an arbitrarily large creature, and infinite tokens on Turn 5. If opponents fail to sweep the board on their subsequent turn, the swarm attacks for lethal damage on Turn 6. When the combo is disrupted, the deck pivots smoothly into large trampling threats and abundant graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animal Attendant
• 1 Basking Broodscale
• 1 Blossoming Sands
• 1 Boseiju Reaches Skyward // Branch of Boseiju
• 1 Bovine Intervention
• 1 Broodguard Elite
• 1 Call Damage Control
• 1 Coliseum Behemoth
• 1 Command Bridge
• 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
• 1 Dance of the Tumbleweeds
• 1 Duty Beyond Death
• 1 Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam
• 1 Elder Gargaroth
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Evolution Witness
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 13 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Genesis Hydra
• 1 Glimpse the Core
• 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
• 1 Go Nuts!
• 1 Grapple with the Past
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Green Sun's Twilight
• 1 Greenhouse // Rickety Gazebo
• 1 Guiding Hydra
• 1 Haliya, Ascendant Cadet
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Herd Baloth
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Hydra Broodmaster
• 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
• 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
• 1 Kapow!
• 1 Love Song of Night and Day
• 1 Make Your Move
• 1 Mighty Mutanimals
• 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mister Hyde, Monster Within
• 1 Nyxborn Hydra
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Peerless Recycling
• 13 Plains
• 1 Public Thoroughfare
• 1 Raucous Audience
• 1 Restoration Seminar
• 1 Roamer's Routine
• 1 Rootborn Defenses
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sandsteppe Mastodon
• 1 Say Its Name
• 1 Season of Renewal
• 1 Secret Rendezvous
• 1 Seek the Horizon
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1 Stonecoil Serpent
• 1 Sunscorch Regent
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 They Went This Way
• 1 Three Tree Rootweaver
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Tifa's Limit Break
• 1 Troll Negotiations
• 1 Uncharted Haven
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Warg Tactics
• 1 Wildwood Scourge
• 1 Wren's Run Hydra