Etali clones by ricotokenman

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This competitive Gruul deck aims to cast Etali, Primal Conqueror on turn 2 or 3 using an ultra-dense fast mana suite comprising positive-mana rocks, creature sacrifices, and explosive red rituals. When Etali enters the battlefield, it exiles cards from all four players until hitting nonland spells, casting each of them for free. The deck leverages cheap red copy spells like Twinflame, Molten Duplication, and Heat Shimmer to create token copies of Etali, repeatedly triggering its ability to dig through entire libraries. To guarantee game closure, the list integrates compact two-card win conditions such as Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame and Food Chain with Squee, the Immortal, supported by Underworld Breach for graveyard recursion. An efficient protection suite featuring Veil of Summer, Deflecting Swat, and Pyroblast defends the combo turn against blue and black disruption.

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 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emerald Charm
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Infernal Plunge
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Metamorphosis
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 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 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 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 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 _____ Goblin