Grab and Grow

Standard* Budget Combo Counters RG (Gruul)

PaganThrone

Creature (25)

• 2x Ash Zealot
• 4x Flinthoof Boar
• 2x Hero of Oxid Ridge
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 4x Kalonian Tusker
• 2x Mwonvuli Beast Tracker
• 2x Ogre Battledriver
• 2x Savageborn Hydra
• 4x Stormblood Berserker
• 2x Wild Beastmaster

Land (24)

• 9x Forest
• 4x Gruul Guildgate
• 2x Kessig Wolf Run
• 9x Mountain

Enchantment (5)

• 2x Gruul War Chant
• 3x Rancor

Instant (2)

• 2x Signal the Clans

Sorcery (5)

• 3x Armed / Dangerous
• 2x Ground Assault

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 3x Ghor-Clan Rampager
• 2x Skarrg Guildmage

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Forced Adaptation
• 1x Rancor

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Ground Assault
• 2x Prey Upon
• 2x Rampant Growth

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This is my first attempt at making an aggressive creature deck which has some counter ramp-up built into it.The main meat of the deck is the Kalonian Hydra paired with the Savageborn Hydra. Swinging with both of them will quickly ramp up the counters to an overwhelming amount. Using the Mwonvuli Beast Tracker and Signal the Clans to find the cards needed I more than often manage to pull this combo off. It's also worth mentioning how well the Ogre Battledriver combos with both Hydras.

I am now looking for some constructive criticism. I am fairly new to Magic, only been playing roughly 6 months and this is my first deck that I find to have potential. I feel that I might need more early creatures that can hold off enemy aggression and perhaps some sort of creature removal. Red has a lot of removal to offer but I haven't gotten around to try any of them out. The manabase can easily be improved with some money put into it, and some rather lackluster creatures in the deck that doesn't really fit in with the theme. Been considering Strangleroot Geist and Flinthoof Boar.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 0 Rares 24 - 8 Uncommons 4 - 6 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.76