Slinza 2 Budget by dcoskpt

Format: Commander

Commander: Slinza, the Spiked Stampede

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul stompy deck focused on Beast tribal synergies led by Slinza, the Spiked Stampede. Slinza provides an explosive mana advantage by reducing all Beast creature spells by two mana while granting them additional +1/+1 counters and fighting opposing creatures upon entry. The deck accelerates rapidly using a dense suite of 17 low-mana ramp pieces to land Slinza on Turn 3. Once established, it chains discounted large creatures alongside continuous card draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Beast Whisperer, and Up the Beanstalk. The deck controls opposing battlefields through repeatable fight triggers and closes the game on Turns 5–6 via overwhelming trample finishers such as Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede, and Thunderfoot Baloth. It maintains resilience against removal using targeted protection spells and high baseline power stats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Battlefront Krushok
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contested Cliffs
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Gruul Ragebeast
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Herald of Ilharg
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kona, Rescue Beastie
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lukka, Bound to Ruin
  • 1 Migloz, Maze Crusher
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paleoloth
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Red XIII, Proud Warrior
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spearbreaker Behemoth
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wirewood Savage
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Woodland Liege