Godzilla by cledetjr1

Format: Commander

Commander: Zilortha, Strength Incarnate

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Zilortha, Strength Incarnate is the centerpiece of a Gruul stompy build whose real agenda is early power, not toughness. Zilortha's lethal-damage replacement keeps fragile 7-power attackers alive long enough to attack. The deck accelerates into a discounted Ghalta, Primal Hunger, then uses doubling effects to make combat damage or Chandra's Ignition end the table. The secondary path uses haste and trample from Garruk's Uprising, Rhythm of the Wild, and haste-granting creatures to overrun before opponents develop. Ghalta, Primal Hunger is the hidden focus of the deck: it is the most reliable high-power finisher and the best target for the sacrifice and doubling effects. There is no infinite combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Dragonborn Champion
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Malignus
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Proud Wildbonder
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderblust
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Tuya Bearclaw
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus