Etali CEDH - Who let big chungus out? by Mrwarden94

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 66

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Commander powerhouse centered on Etali, Primal Conqueror. It leverages an extensive fast mana suite, rituals, and cost-cheating enablers to cast its seven-mana commander as early as Turn 2 or 3. Upon entering the battlefield, Etali generates explosive card and mana advantage by casting four free nonland spells exiled from all players' libraries. The deck converts this momentum into an immediate victory using compact infinite combos, primarily Food Chain with Squee, the Immortal to repeatedly cast Etali and exile every card from all opponents' decks, or Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame to generate an unbounded army of hasty attackers. Backed by cheap, targeted stack protection like Deflecting Swat and Veil of Summer, the deck consistently threatens game-ending turns before opposing engines stabilize.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Face Yourself
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindle the Inner Flame
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Open the Omenpaths
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Pyrokinesis
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sandstone Needle
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 _____ Goblin