Mardu by Tooltime

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Stormrender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Mardu token-aristocrats build helmed by Zurgo Stormrender. The strategy revolves around generating waves of creature tokens through combat-triggered abilities, attacking aggressively, and exploiting Zurgo's dual triggers: drawing cards when attacking tokens leave the battlefield in combat, and draining 1 life from each opponent when tokens leave the battlefield outside of attacking. A dense package of 2-CMC mana rocks ensures a smooth Turn 3 commander deployment, followed by powerful token producers such as Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Ainok Strike Leader, and Legion Warboss. Payoffs like Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery, Divine Visitation, Caesar, Legion's Emperor, and Goblin Bombardment convert swarms into decisive combat damage and non-combat burn. While the list lacks stack interaction and fast mana, it compensates with high engine redundancy, card velocity through sacrifice engines, and resilient recovery mechanisms against standard board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Devourer
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Embereth
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ogre Battledriver
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Twilight Drover
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zurgo Stormrender