🦖 by mcdouble51

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This competitive Gruul deck leverages Etali, Primal Conqueror as a high-velocity combo engine from the command zone. Driven by a dense acceleration suite of positive-mana rocks, rituals, and sol lands, the deck consistently powers out a Turn 2 or Turn 3 Etali. Upon entering the battlefield, Etali exiles and casts the top nonland card from each player's library for free. The deck exploits this explosive enter-the-battlefield trigger using redundant copy spells such as Molten Duplication, Heat Shimmer, and Twinflame to repeatedly spin through libraries. These chains seamlessly assemble game-ending combos, including infinite creature mana via Food Chain and Squee, the Immortal to exile all opposing libraries, or infinite hasty attackers through Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame. Supported by premium stack interaction and uncounterable enablers like Cavern of Souls and Veil of Summer, the deck closes games decisively in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emerald Charm
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Sandstone Needle
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 _____ Goblin