Zurgo ready with cardtrader by Kastagna

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mardu token-swarm deck built around Zurgo Stormrender's Mobilize trigger. Every attack makes a Warrior token that is sacrificed at the end step, and Zurgo turns that token-exit into cards if it was attacking - making the commander the deck's primary draw engine as well as an attacker. The rest of the list is a dense package of attack-trigger token makers like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon, and Caesar, Legion's Emperor, plus payoff enchantments like Warleader's Call, Cathars' Crusade, and Divine Visitation to turn wide boards into lethal statistics. The primary wins are an alpha strike, repeated drain through Goblin Bombardment and Warleader's Call, and one-sided wipes like Ruinous Ultimatum into a huge attack. It is a combat-snowball deck rather than an infinite-combo deck, though Hammers of Moradin and Wyrm's Crossing Patrol offer a Myriad-based high roll in multiplayer.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
  • 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hammers of Moradin
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Mythos of Snapdax
  • 1 Nahiri's Machinations
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Response // Resurgence
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyknight Vanguard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunbaked Canyon
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wyrm's Crossing Patrol
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender
  • 1 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree