Mardu Surge by K0RIE

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zurgo Stormrender heads a Mardu token-aristocrats deck that wins by attacking with Mobilize tokens and draining the table when those tokens leave the battlefield. The primary plan is to play Zurgo on turn 3, attack to make a 1/1 Warrior, and turn each sacrificed token into a card if it attacked or 1 life lost per opponent otherwise. Mirkwood Bats, Bastion of Remembrance, and Garna, Bloodfist of Keld stack additional drains while Skullclamp and Deadly Dispute keep cards flowing. Secondary paths are go-wide combat with Adeline, Divine Visitation Angels, and an extra combat from All-Out Assault, or grind with Elspeth and Thalisse. Zurgo is the draw and drain engine; Garna and Teysa Karlov are hidden commanders that copy or double his triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 All-Out Assault
• 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barrensteppe Siege
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Call for Unity
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chainsaw
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Divine Visitation
• 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Eliminate the Competition
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
• 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1 Goldnight Commander
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1 Hour of Reckoning
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Infantry Shield
• 1 Ironwill Forger
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1 Legion Warboss
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Loyal Apprentice
• 1 Mace of the Valiant
• 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
• 1 Neriv, Heart of the Storm
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 5 Plains
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
• 1 Release the Dogs
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shattered Landscape
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Starry-Eyed Skyrider
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sun Titan
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 The Masamune
• 1 Twilight Drover
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Will of the Mardu
• 1 Windbrisk Heights
• 1 Windcrag Siege
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zurgo Stormrender
• 1 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree