Kraven, Go Big or Go Home by Bender4k

Format: Commander

Commander: Kraven, Proud Predator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul "Big Mana/Big Stompy" strategy centered around Kraven, Proud Predator. The primary game plan is to exploit Kraven s "Top of the Food Chain" ability, which scales his power to the highest mana value among your permanents. By running a high density of massive threats like Worldspine Wurm, Apex Devastator, and Ulamog, the Defiler, Kraven becomes a lethal Voltron threat for just three mana. The deck utilizes "cheat" effects such as Elvish Piper, Monster Manual, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant to bypass the massive casting costs of its high-MV payloads. Victory is typically achieved through overwhelming combat damage, facilitated by trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising, or through "burn" effects that scale with power, such as Fling and Vengeful Rebirth. The deck plays as a high-variance, high-reward "Timmy" strategy that seeks to turn the highest mana values in the game into immediate board presence and lethal commander damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Cheering Crowd
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Earthquake Dragon
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Fling
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Greater Gargadon
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kraven, Proud Predator
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lumbering Megasloth
  • 1 Lure of Prey
  • 1 Michelangelo, Improviser
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nyxborn Behemoth
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primeval Protector
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rust Goliath
  • 1 Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Selvala's Stampede
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terminal Velocity
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vengeful Rebirth
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yuna's Whistle