Tom’s anti-blue deck by Jarbo

Format: Commander

Commander: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed leads an aggressive Gruul anti-control deck designed to penalize noncreature spells while assembling devastating damage combos. The commander exerts immense pressure by dealing six damage to anyone casting noncreature spells, forcing opponents to burn life totals to interact. The primary game plan combines oppressive stax pieces like Blood Moon and Choke with uncounterable threats to dictate the pace of play. Once opponents are constrained, the deck finishes the game using explosive burn combinations such as Heartless Hidetsugu paired with Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, excess damage blowouts with Toralf, God of Fury, or relentless combat boosted by Xenagos, God of Revels.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arena of Glory
• 1 Autumn's Veil
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Moon
• 1 Boil
• 1 Boiling Seas
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Buster Sword
• 1 Carpet of Flowers
• 1 Castle Garenbrig
• 1 Choke
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 City of Solitude
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Destiny Spinner
• 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 8 Forest
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Guttural Response
• 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magnetic Mountain
• 1 Magus of the Moon
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Price of Glory
• 1 Pyroblast
• 1 Red Elemental Blast
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1 Seedtime
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Tinder Wall
• 1 Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer
• 1 Tsunami
• 1 Twinflame Tyrant
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Vexing Shusher
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth