Etali by DaryJohn

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Gruul list ramps into Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness. The front face is the real commander: a 7/7 whose ETB exiles into each library and casts the first nonland from each for free. Cost reducers (Otepec Huntmaster, Knight of the Stampede, Goblin Anarchomancer) plus dense ramp aim to resolve that trigger on turn four or five, then copy or flicker it with Panharmonicon, Strionic Resonator, Jaxis, the Troublemaker, and Voyager Staff. The back face transforms for nine mana into an 11/11 indestructible trampler that poisons equal to combat damage - a closer once Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Food Chain can pay the activation, especially with Concordant Crossroads or Rogue's Passage. In parallel, Food Chain plus Squee, the Immortal or Eternal Scourge makes infinite creature-spell mana, while Insurrection, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and Grapeshot close games that stall.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arboria
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 2 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Celestial Reunion
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Ecological Appreciation
  • 1 Eladamri's Vineyard
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Etali's Favor
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goblin Clearcutter
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Intrepid Paleontologist
  • 1 Ixalli's Lorekeeper
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindle the Inner Flame
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mirri's Guile
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Steal the Show
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Voyager Staff
  • 1 Worldly Tutor