Aerid Konstrari by brendenriggs

Format: Commander

Commander: Aerid Konstrari

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Gruul deck operates as a high-velocity Big Mana and Sneak Stompy engine designed to bypass high mana costs and overwhelm the table with massive creature threats. It utilizes low-CMC ramp in the opening turns to establish uncounterable cheat permanents such as Monster Manual, Quicksilver Amulet, and Elvish Piper on Turn 4. By Turn 5, it transitions into critical onset by deploying game-warping dragons and legendary beaters like Terror of the Peaks, Old Gnawbone, and Etali, Primal Storm. Damage multipliers such as Wulfgar of Icewind Dale, Terror of Mount Velus, and continuous burn enchantments like Warstorm Surge and Pandemonium convert high creature power directly into lethal life total reduction. The commander Aerid Konstrari serves as a resilient mana generator and late-game mana sink, while the 99 functions completely independently to close out games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with the Gods
  • 1 Creative Technique
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Dragonborn Champion
  • 1 Dragonlair Spider
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 19 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Gladiolus Amicitia
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Kiora of Fire and Ashes
  • 1 Klauth's Will
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Owlbear Shepherd
  • 1 Pandemonium
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ruric Thar, Magecrusher
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summoner's Grimoire
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Terror of Mount Velus
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Thorn Elemental
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Vivien's Arkbow
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wild Pair
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wulfgar of Icewind Dale