Mardu Surge - Upgraded by Akoren03

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a aggressive Mardu token and aristocrats engine commanded by Zurgo Stormrender. The strategy accelerates on turns one through three by establishing mana rocks and deploying utility creatures. On turn four, it deploys Zurgo Stormrender alongside repeatable token generators such as Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Loyal Apprentice, and Hero of Bladehold. Mobilize and combat triggers swarm the battlefield with attacking tokens, transforming every combat step into immediate card draw or life drain. On turn five, the deck converts wide boards into lethal table-wide damage by resolving damage multipliers like Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, and Warleader's Call. As tokens enter the battlefield, attack, and die at end of turn or through sacrifice outlets, direct damage bypasses conventional defenses to eliminate all three opponents by turn six. Robust board protection from Grand Crescendo and Selfless Spirit ensures high resilience against conventional sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charitable Levy
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Ironwill Forger
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Legion Loyalty
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warleader's Call
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender