56 feral hogs by pgryffs

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Gruul Stompy deck is built around Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, utilizing a critical mass of 55 creature spells to aggressively advance its own board state while breaking parity on its commander's punishing noncreature tax. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient mana dorks like Birds of Paradise and Biophagus, setting up stable 6-mana deployment by Turn 4. Once Ruric Thar, the Unbowed enters the battlefield, opposing spell-slingers, storm pilots, and control decks take 6 damage for every noncreature action, drastically suppressing their interaction windows. Meanwhile, the deck maintains steady card velocity through power-based draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and Beast Whisperer. The game is closed out on Turn 6 via overwhelming trample damage from high-power beaters like Ghalta, Primal Hunger and Craterhoof Behemoth, or through an infinite mana outlet with Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and Umbral Mantle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Atalan Jackal
  • 1 Battle Mammoth
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Borborygmos Enraged
  • 1 Challenger Troll
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Durnan of the Yawning Portal
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 18 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 Giant Cindermaw
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gruul Ragebeast
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hamletback Goliath
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Raucous Audience
  • 1 Regal Force
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thorn Mammoth
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Wood Elves