Just beasts by user2852748

Format: Commander

Commander: Slinza, the Spiked Stampede

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

Slinza, the Spiked Stampede helms a focused Gruul Beast tribal stompy deck that leverages mana acceleration, tribal cost reduction, and high-power creature synergies to overwhelm opponents through combat. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana ramp spells and tribal enablers like Herald's Horn and Emerald Medallion to cast Slinza on Turn 4. Once assembled, Slinza reduces Beast casting costs by two mana and enables repeatable board control by paying {1}{R/G} to fight opposing creatures whenever high-power threats enter. Card draw engines such as Elemental Bond, Garruk's Uprising, and Wirewood Savage convert discounted Beast deployment into sustained card advantage. The deck transitions into a lethal threat by Turn 6 with trampling beaters like Quartzwood Crasher, Thunderfoot Baloth, and Elder Gargaroth, or mass creature swarms via Kindred Summons. Win conditions rely on overwhelming trample and bypass damage from Siege Behemoth, closing games around Turn 8 across two opponent response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 By Force
  • 1 Caller of the Pack
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 For the Ancestors
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Garruk's Horde
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Herd Baloth
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hour of Devastation
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Krosan Warchief
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nylea's Forerunner
  • 1 Paleoloth
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Plated Crusher
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Wirewood Savage
  • 1 Woodland Liege