EARTH KING

Format: Commander

Commander: The Earth King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-green stompy and landfall beatdown strategy piloted by The Earth King. The game plan revolves around deploying the commander on Turn 4 to immediately generate a 4/4 Bear token, then leveraging the commander's attack trigger on Turn 5 to fetch basic Forest cards straight to the battlefield whenever 4+ power creatures attack. This steady mana acceleration fuels high-impact threats such as Rampaging Baloths, Elder Gargaroth, and Beorn the Fierce. The deck translates its board presence into game-ending combat steps on Turns 7 through 9 using mass pump and trample enablers like Craterhoof Behemoth, Pathbreaker Ibex, and Unnatural Growth. While resilient against single-target disruption thanks to board-wide protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Asceticism, the deck operates primarily at sorcery speed on the ground and relies on combat damage to eliminate opponents one by one.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allies at Last
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Attercop
  • 1 Baloth Woodcrasher
  • 1 Beorn the Fierce
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Collective Unconscious
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Dragon Sniper
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Elfsworn Giant
  • 36 Forest
  • 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Giant Ankheg
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Mirkwood Pathmaker
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Fat Spider
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Primal Command
  • 1 Punishing Punch
  • 1 Quarrel
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Radioactive Spider
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Respite
  • 1 Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Rex, Daring Dino
  • 1 Super Strength
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Kraken
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Wilderland Scrounger
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor