Gruul Type Beats by HoidsWit

Format: Commander

Commander: Blaster, Combat DJ // Blaster, Morale Booster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Gruul artifact aggro and counter-manipulation deck led by Blaster, Combat DJ. It leverages the modular mechanic alongside counter doublers to generate enormous, resilient artifact threats. By utilizing the alternative More Than Meets the Eye cost, Blaster enters early as Blaster, Morale Booster, allowing you to redistribute +1/+1 counters and grant haste to key attackers. High-power modular creatures like Arcbound Crusher, Big Mother Mouser, and Threefold Thunderhulk quickly scale into lethal attackers with trample or flying. Instant-speed sacrifice outlets such as Arcbound Ravager, Ashnod's Altar, and Greater Good ensure counters and card advantage are preserved in response to opposing removal. Win conditions include direct modular combat, massive burn from Chandra's Ignition and All Will Be One, or converting stacked counters into lethal direct damage via Walking Ballista.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcbound Crusher
  • 1 Arcbound Ravager
  • 1 Arcbound Reclaimer
  • 1 Arcbound Slith
  • 1 Arcbound Stinger
  • 1 Arcbound Tracker
  • 1 Arcbound Worker
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blaster, Combat DJ // Blaster, Morale Booster
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copper Myr
  • 1 Cradle Clearcutter
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Marketback Walker
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Simian Simulacrum
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Technodrome
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Verdurous Gearhulk
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Workshop Assistant