Gruul Fighting Pit by Vinheo

Format: Commander

Commander: Slinza, the Spiked Stampede

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Gruul Beast tribal stompy build commanded by Slinza, the Spiked Stampede. The game plan focuses on rapid early mana acceleration into Slinza, leveraging the commander's cost reduction to flood the board with oversized Beast creatures. As these high-power creatures enter, Slinza grants bonus +1/+1 counters and triggers optional fight abilities to clear opposing utility creatures and blockers. Persistent card-draw engines like Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond keep the hand full, while trample enablers and damage doublers like Unnatural Growth convert board presence into lethal combat damage across turns 6 and 7. The deck includes efficient instant-speed protection to shield against board wipes, though it relies purely on combat without infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anara, Wolvid Familiar
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Axebane Ferox
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Battlefront Krushok
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contested Cliffs
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giant Cindermaw
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gruul Ragebeast
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Krosan Warchief
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Realmwalker
  • 1 Red XIII, Proud Warrior
  • 1 Renegade Krasis
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
  • 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Wirewood Savage
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Liege
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor