Fast Xenagos

Commander / EDH* Aggro Land Destruction RG (Gruul)

Aranan

Creature (36)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deus of Calamity
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Greenweaver Druid
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 9x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (3)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Tectonic Break
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

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Gameplan

Essentially, this deck wants to (1) ramp out Xenagos as fast as possible, (2) follow up with a threat, and (3) do something to slow the board down.

Ramp

I'm using a heavy creature-based ramp package for this deck for two reasons. First, it's a little faster than rocks or green's land-based ramp. There are plenty of 1-drops that can help you get to 5 mana on turn 3 which is where we want to be. Secondly, it allows me to run some land-hate in the deck to slow the other players down a few turns so I can try to take advantage of my early-game lead.

Threats

All of the threats in this deck feature evasion of some form--mostly trample or flying. I had to skip out on some otherwise classic Xenagos options to do this (no Malignus or Hydra Omnivore , for instance) but I feel like it makes up for it by having evasive beaters that can't be easily chump blocked. It also means I don't need to rely on other cards to give my guys evasion, which often wind up as dead cards if I draw into one of the tramplers that would be in here anyway.

Slow them down

A handful of land destruction cards (and also Winter Orb) serve to fill this role. Ideally, they'll hamper my opponents more than me (thanks to my mana-dorks) and allow me to push one or two more attacks in before they get defenses set up. With this deck, one or two turns of attacks can be really painful.

Change Log: February 1, 2019 Show

I took this deck apart a while ago, but I need a pair of non-cEDH decks to take to the LGS. This is one of them.

CUTS:

• Garruk, Primal Hunter
• Gruul Signet
• Chrome Mox
• Mox Diamond
• Skullclamp
• Strionic Resonator
• Keldon Firebombers
• Eldritch Evolution
• Natural State
• Boreal Druid
• Grafted Exoskeleton
• Berserk

ADDS:

• Manglehorn
• Stranglehold
• Wildfire
• Rishkar's Expertise
• Beast Whisperer
• Dragonlord Atarka
• Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• Devoted Druid
• Garruk Wildspeaker
• Strip Mine
• Null Rod
• Pathbreaker Ibex

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.36
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Casual EDH