Gargos by Jiveturkey

Format: Commander

Commander: Gargos, Vicious Watcher

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Mono-Green Stompy strategy centered on Gargos, Vicious Watcher. Gargos serves as both an explosive mana engine and a repeatable removal outlet. The commander reduces the cost of all Hydra spells by four generic mana, enabling massive X-cost threats to enter the battlefield ahead of curve. Simultaneously, Gargos's triggered ability turns cheap targeting spells, Auras, and combat tricks into instant-speed fight removal against opposing creatures. The deck accelerates through early mana dorks and land ramp, lands Gargos on Turn 4 or 5, and rapidly establishes board dominance with giant trampling beaters. Card draw engines scale with high creature power, ensuring a steady stream of gas. Win conditions rely on overwhelming combat steps powered by Overwhelming Stampede, Garruk's Uprising, and Hydra Omnivore. While vulnerable to mass exile effects, a deep protection package keeps key threats alive to close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Aspect of Hydra
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blossoming Defense
• 1 Castle Garenbrig
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Drumhunter
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Emerald Medallion
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 30 Forest
• 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hungering Hydra
• 1 Hunter's Insight
• 1 Hunter's Prowess
• 1 Hydra Broodmaster
• 1 Hydra Omnivore
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Invigorate
• 1 Ironscale Hydra
• 1 Karametra's Acolyte
• 1 Keen Sense
• 1 Kenrith's Transformation
• 1 Lifeblood Hydra
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Managorger Hydra
• 1 Memorial to Unity
• 1 Mortal's Resolve
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nessian Wilds Ravager
• 1 Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 One with Nature
• 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Prey Upon
• 1 Primal Bellow
• 1 Primordial Hydra
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rancor
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Return to Nature
• 1 Rhonas's Monument
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Season of Growth
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Sixth Sense
• 1 Snake Umbra
• 1 Song of the Dryads
• 1 Steelbane Hydra
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tranquil Thicket
• 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1 Unbound Flourishing
• 1 Vines of Vastwood
• 1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Whip Silk
• 1 Whiptongue Hydra
• 1 Wild Defiance
• 1 Withstand Death
• 1 Wrap in Vigor