Gruulslinger by DestroyerOfWorlds578

Format: Commander

Commander: The Howling Abomination

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul spellslinger deck built around The Howling Abomination. The strategy revolves around deploying the 5-mana commander ahead of curve, then leveraging a dense package of 1-mana instant cantrips and pump spells to trigger both its direct-damage ability and power-buffing effect. Because the commander triggers whenever it becomes the target of any spell, even defensive hexproof spells like Blossoming Defense and Tamiyo's Safekeeping advance the aggressive clock. Drawing into payoff engines like Keen Sense or Snake Umbra turns every target trigger into three fresh cards, fueling massive storm chains. Supported by secondary spell-damage creatures like Guttersnipe and Coruscation Mage, the deck rapidly drains opposing life totals while delivering lethal trample combat strikes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggressive Urge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charge Through
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crimson Wisps
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedite
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Fists of Flame
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 Impolite Entrance
  • 1 Invigorate
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krark, the Thumbless
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Might of the Meek
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mutagenic Growth
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Oracle's Restoration
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Psychotic Fury
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rile
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Season of Growth
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sheltering Word
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 The Howling Abomination
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket
  • 1 Venerated Rotpriest
  • 1 Verdant Rebirth
  • 1 Viridescent Wisps
  • 1 Whip Silk
  • 1 Zada, Hedron Grinder