Too Many Salamanders by user8588078

Format: Commander

Commander: Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an interactive Simic token and political control deck commanded by Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist. The central strategy revolves around exploiting Gor Muldrak's global protection from Salamanders. At each end step, the commander creates 4/3 Salamander Warrior tokens for whichever players control the fewest creatures. By keeping creature counts low or phasing attackers out with Teferi's Veil, you reliably receive a steady stream of 4/3 beaters while gifting Salamanders to opponents who cannot use them against you. Creature-type manipulation pieces such as Unnatural Selection, Amoeboid Changeling, and Standardize turn opposing threats into Salamanders on demand, effectively granting your entire board immunity to opposing attacks, blocks, and targeted abilities. Card advantage engines like Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond trigger off every 4-power Salamander, generating sustained card draw. The deck closes games around Turn 8 by cloning Gor Muldrak, stealing opposing boards with Willbreaker, or resolving overrun finishers like Overwhelming Stampede to push through unblockable combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Amoeboid Changeling
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artificial Evolution
  • 1 Augmenter Pugilist // Echoing Equation
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crafty Cutpurse
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imagecrafter
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Keep Watch
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Littjara Mirrorlake
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oko, Lorwyn Liege // Oko, Shadowmoor Scion
  • 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Parallel Evolution
  • 1 Peer Pressure
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Standardize
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teferi's Veil
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Unnatural Selection
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Willbreaker
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast