Etali by user4836330

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is a high-velocity big-mana stompy strategy centered on Etali, Primal Conqueror. The game plan accelerates mana rapidly during the opening three turns using efficient mana dorks, land ramp, and cost-reducers. By Turn 4, the deck deploys Etali, immediately triggering its enter-the-battlefield ability to exile cards from every player's library and cast four free nonland spells. This explosive burst routinely floods the board with high-impact threats, secondary draw engines, and removal. ETB doublers like Roaming Throne and Panharmonicon further amplify this advantage. The deck closes games through overwhelming combat damage from massive trampling Dinosaurs, extra combat steps via Aggravated Assault, a lethal Finale of Devastation, or by transforming Etali into Etali, Primal Sickness to eliminate opponents with poison counters. While vulnerable to early countermagic on its commander and sweeping exile board wipes, its dense ramp suite, uncounterable enablers, and robust alternate threats ensure rapid recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth