CEDH Etali by Carahy

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 78

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive turbo combo list designed to cast Etali, Primal Conqueror as early as Turn 2 or 3 using high-velocity fast mana and rituals. Once Etali enters the battlefield, its trigger exiles the top nonland card of every player's library and casts them for free. The deck exploits this by chaining low-cost copy spells like Twinflame, Heat Shimmer, and Molten Duplication to create token copies of Etali, repeatedly triggering its ability to play through entire libraries in a single turn. Backup win conditions include the infinite creature mana loop with Food Chain and Squee, the Immortal, the hasty token combat win with Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame, and recursive lines with Underworld Breach. Strong reactive counter-protection like Veil of Summer and Deflecting Swat ensures the deck can force its high-impact spells through opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 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 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kindle the Inner Flame
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Open the Omenpaths
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Pyrokinesis
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reckless Barbarian
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 _____ Goblin