Gruul fun by spicyonion

Format: Commander

Commander: Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Gruul big-mana deck is spearheaded by Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers, a 7-mana commander featuring trample and haste that cheats a random creature from the library tapped and attacking on every swing. Backed by a dense package of green ramp and mana rocks, the deck aims to deploy its commander reliably on Turn 5. The 99 is packed with game-ending beaters, including extra-combat creatures like Bloodthirster and Port Razer, value engines like Old Gnawbone, and massive stat doublers like Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus. While the deck features minimal stax or interaction, it protects its explosive turns with efficient redirect spells and protective instants like Deflecting Swat and Heroic Intervention. Its combat damage rapidly snowballs to overwhelm the pod across two turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bristling Backwoods
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Michelangelo, Improviser
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Raphael, Tag Team Tough
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus