Big Bad Beetle Borbs

Commander / EDH Burn Multiplayer Ramp RG (Gruul) Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (31)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Akoum Hellkite
• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Archetype of Aggression
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Dragon Broodmother
• 1x Dragonlair Spider
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Grazing Gladehart
• 1x Groundskeeper
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Oran-Rief Hydra
• 1x Polukranos, World Eater
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Scab-Clan Berserker
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Soul of Shandalar
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sylvan Ranger
• 1x Tornado Elemental
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Turntimber Basilisk

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

Land (35)

• 1x Arena
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fertile Thicket
• 11x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Snake Umbra

Artifact (5)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Slab Hammer
• 1x Storm Cauldron

Instant (9)

• 1x Atarka's Command
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Destructive Revelry
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Smash to Smithereens
• 1x Sprouting Vines
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Word of Seizing

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Clan Defiance
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Pillage
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Land (1)

• 1x Thawing Glaciers

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Seismic Assault

Artifact (2)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Sword of Kaldra

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BIG BAD BEETLE BORBS


Borborygmos would like a word with you...

Borborygmos brings out the big guns in this deck, with fatties and burn to behold! Chuck mountains or maybe even a phyrexian oil-coated tree; it doesn't matter as long as it hurts!

RAMP!
If there's one thing Borb likes, it's land. Playing them, searching for them, playing them, returning them to your hand, playing them; you get the deal.
Cards like Skyshroud Claim, Cultivate, and Boundless Realms are your basic put-into-play ramp cards, but where Borborygmos shines is in a mana flood situation. Cards like Rites of Spring , Sprouting Vines, Sylvan Ranger, and Realms Uncharted help you get those tasty lands into your hand- ready for the chuck wagon.

Burn, Baby, Burn!
What's the use of all that mana if you have nothing to do with it? Cards like Clan Defiance , Comet Storm, and Hurricane let you sink all that mana into delicious direct-damage.

The Recursive Function
With all this land-discarding going on, it helps to be able to recur your cards. Crucible of Worlds and Restore help me play lands even after Borborygmos has crushed someone with them; I like to imagine he throws tree trunks curved like boomerangs at people.
Other cards like Life from the Loam, Praetor's Counsel, and Groundskeeper can help "reload" my hand on lands to throw.

Real Estate Enhancing Drugs
Borborygmos' Ability is pretty good on its own, but when you start to add in ways to double his damage output or make it more deadly, a game can come down to the line pretty fast. With a card like Illusionist's Bracers or Gratuitous Violence out, Borborygmos can railgun players' life totals pretty easily. Basilisk Collar can help snipe creatures easier, and even gain you life. But the true trump card of this section is Grafted Exoskeleton, which puts any one player on a 7-land clock.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.88
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Dragon 1/1 RG, Dragon 5/5 R, Hydra X/X G, Insect 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Satyr 2/2 GR, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	EDH