BradZilla T3 Upgraded by GristleGran

Format: Commander

Commander: Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul Stompy strategy commanded by Zilortha, Strength Incarnate. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana during the early turns to quickly deploy large, high-power creatures that trigger synergistic draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and The Great Henge. Zilortha's static ability allows aggressive power-heavy creatures to survive combat and damage-based wipes using their power values rather than toughness. The deck leverages devastating stat multipliers including Xenagos, God of Revels, Unnatural Growth, Railway Brawler, and Overwhelming Stampede to deliver massive chunks of trample damage. Opponents are put on a rapid clock, typically facing lethal combat pressure by turn 5 and full table elimination by turn 6. While vulnerable to mass exile sweepers and countermagic, redundant threats and explosive card-draw spells allow the deck to quickly rebuild and overwhelm the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zendikar Resurgent
  • 1 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate