Godzilla by AYen93

Format: Commander

Commander: Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Gruul Stompy build helmed by Zilortha, Strength Incarnate, designed to leverage high-power creatures and aggressive combat mechanics. The strategy revolves around using efficient 1-2 CMC ramp to accelerate into impactful 4+ power threats by Turn 3 or 4. Zilortha, Strength Incarnate modifies combat math by making lethal damage equal to power rather than toughness, allowing aggressively statted beaters to survive trades. With engines like Garruk's Uprising and Terror of the Peaks, the deck converts creature deployments into continuous card draw and direct board control. The deck achieves critical onset around Turn 5 and closes games by Turn 7 using combat amplifiers like Xenagos, God of Revels, Unnatural Growth, and Overwhelming Stampede, pushing massive trample damage past opposing blockers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cactusfolk Sureshot
  • 1 Challenger Troll
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Solifuge
  • 1 Gigapede
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Jolene, Plundering Pugilist
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Phytotitan
  • 1 Proud Wildbonder
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rubblebelt Rioters
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thunderblust
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Treeshaker Chimera
  • 1 Tuya Bearclaw
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zendikar Incarnate
  • 1 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate