Gimli Gruul by user9829099

Format: Commander

Commander: Gimli, Mournful Avenger

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Gruul aristocrats/sacrifice deck helmed by Gimli, Mournful Avenger. The core plan is to generate a steady stream of tokens - Goblins, Saprolings, and Plants - then sacrifice them through outlets like Goblin Bombardment, Skullclamp, and Greater Good to accrue value while stacking +1/+1 counters on Gimli. His third-death-trigger fight ability turns every sacrifice turn into repeatable removal. The deck wins through combat with an enormous, trampling Gimli (pumped by Kessig Wolf Run, Gimli's Axe, and Rancor), a wide token swarm from Avenger of Zendikar and Mycoloth, or a game-ending Insurrection. Secondary engines include Magda, Brazen Outlaw (Treasures into artifact tutoring), Feldon of the Third Path (reanimation), and Goblin Sharpshooter ping loops. It is a midrange value deck that grinds advantage through death triggers rather than assembling fast combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Barrow-Blade
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beetleback Chief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Bloodfire Dwarf
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Doors of Durin
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fanatical Firebrand
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant
  • 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
  • 1 Gimli's Axe
  • 1 Gimli's Fury
  • 1 Gimli, Counter of Kills
  • 1 Gimli, Mournful Avenger
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Magus of the Order
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mogg Infestation
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Golden Throne
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Wort, the Raidmother
  • 1 Yavimaya Steelcrusher