conqueror counters by muffinman25

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Gruul stompy build helmed by Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness, designed to accelerate rapidly into high-cost threats and overwhelm the table with massive card and mana advantage. Leveraging a dense suite of 1-3 CMC ramp dorks and land fetchers, the deck reliably casts Etali on Turn 4 or 5. Etali's enter-the-battlefield trigger immediately casts four free spells from across the table, establishing an instant board presence packed with high-power dinosaurs, dragons, and enchantments. The deck transitions into lethal pressure either by transforming Etali into its indestructible 11/11 Phyrexian form to eliminate players with poison damage or by utilizing power doublers like Xenagos, God of Revels, Unnatural Growth, and Railway Brawler alongside wipe-burn spells like Chandra's Ignition. Resilient protection spells shield critical creatures while independent top-end beaters ensure victory even if the commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Bellowing Tanglewurm
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Flameshadow Conjuring
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tangleweave Armor
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels