etali by Crimsonknight

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This list is an aggressive Gruul combo deck built around Etali, Primal Conqueror. It accelerates through fast artifact mana, mana dorks, and rituals to execute one of two compact primary win conditions: the Food Chain loop or the Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame combo. Food Chain combined with Squee, the Immortal or Eternal Scourge generates unbounded creature mana, enabling infinite recasts of Etali to exile and cast every nonland spell in all four libraries. As an alternate path, Twinflame paired with Dualcaster Mage generates unbounded hasty 2/2 attackers to eliminate the table in combat. Protective pieces like Veil of Summer, Cavern of Souls, and Deflecting Swat shield the combo turn, while Blood Moon punishes opposing multicolored mana bases. The deck trades deep blue countermagic for raw velocity and explosive recovery potential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Erratic Portal
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Touch
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grinning Ignus
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stingcaster Mage
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor