Etali, Primal Conquerer by havokizicecold

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Gruul stompy-value deck helmed by Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness that ramps aggressively into its 7-mana commander, cascades free spells off the ETB, and closes through oversized combat or infinite-combat loops. The front face is the primary engine-exiling and casting nonlands from every library-while the back face offers an indestructible poison finisher after a costly transform. Supporting packages include dense mana dorks and land ramp, flicker/doubler enablers (Panharmonicon, Conjurer's Closet, Roaming Throne), and classic Gruul finishers (Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Combat Celebrant, Aggravated Assault lines, Sneak Attack, Moraug, Fury of Akoum). The deck wins by converting free cascade value and extra-combat chains into lethal trample damage or by tutoring two-card infinite-combat pairs. Secondary paths include pure beatdown with cost-reduced dinosaurs and The Great Henge card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Combat Celebrant
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk, Savage Herald
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Siege Behemoth
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth