Sticks and Stones Are Gonna Break Your Bones

Commander / EDH Budget Burn Combo Ramp RG (Gruul)

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Creature (20)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Centaur Vinecrasher
• 1x Countryside Crusher
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Groundskeeper
• 1x Keeper of Progenitus
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Ramunap Excavator *f-pre*
• 1x Rubblehulk
• 1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Artifact (4)

• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Storm Cauldron

Instant (3)

• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Overblaze
• 1x Signal the Clans

Land (50)

• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dormant Volcano
• 27x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Jungle Basin
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Shivan Oasis
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Timber Gorge

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Quest for Pure Flame
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Zendikar's Roil

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rites of Spring
• 1x Scouting Trek
• 1x Seek the Horizon
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Verdant Confluence

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Creature (6)

• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x World Shaper

Artifact (5)

• 1x Druidic Satchel
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Talisman of Impulse

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Land (4)

• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Highland Weald
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aggressive Mining
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Into the Wilds
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu

Instant (1)

• 1x Sprouting Vines

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Here's my budget Gruul combo/burn/ramp deck. Its main plan is to use the commander's ability to make lands into bolts as a win condition, bursting out of nowhere, guns blazing like an action movie. How does this become practical? Here's how:

Now I Have a Machine Gun. Ho ho ho.

Snake Umbra and Keen Sense are critical pieces of this deck's strategy. These cards let you string together VERY long chains of bolts, given how the deck has so many lands. If you have either of these in play and draw Scouting Trek, you're probably about to win.

Damage Doublers

Quest for Pure Flame, Dictate of the Twin Gods, Insult / Injury, Overblaze, and Illusionist's Bracers. These are what give the deck the reach to kill the whole table without Scouting Trek.

Reload!

This deck doesn't throw one or two bolts here and there, it either bides its time, or it straight up mag dumps. If that's not enough, it has ways to reload. Knollspine Dragon, Creeping Renaissance, Loaming Shaman, and Groundskeeper are the cards of choice here. Once we've dumped all our lands, we can also get them back to play with Splendid Reclamation.

Non-Budget Options

Crucible of Worlds is an essential card in any Land-based deck that can afford its price tag. It costs more than the entirety of this deck, which is way too much for a budget deck.

Oracle of Mul Daya lets you play out the lands you need super fast, which has the added benefit of digging for missing pieces of the deck's Cannon. But she's over $20. Maybe in the future.

Exploration gives you more land drops for the pittance that is one green Mana. I pulled a foil of this back when I started Magic, but sold it. I don't regret it, but that's the reason why I don't have one.

Life from the Loam gets more lands for cheap and can recur itself, but its popularity puts it at $15.

Azusa, Lost but Seeking enables a much faster Borbo, but she's almost as expensive as Crucible, which I would take over her in a heartbeat.

Scapeshift is nice to load the yard for a Reload spell but you pretty much need to have Prismatic Omen and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle to make it worthwhile, which are also expensive cards.

Tokens

The back-up strategy is beatdown with tokens. To this end, we bring Avenger of Zendikar, Omnath, Locus of Rage, Zendikar's Roil and Rampaging Baloths.

This deck is not the most competitive deck out there, but it's really cheap and a lot of fun to play. There are plenty of ways to improve it with more expensive cards, which I may add to the deck as time goes on.

Comments and criticism are welcome!

CollegePeasant

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, City's Blessing, Dragon 5/5 R, Elemental 2/2 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Elephant 3-3 G, Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Budget Guild Lists, EDH