Xenagos Equal left and rights

Commander / EDH RG (Gruul)

Shadowfox013

Creature (29)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Dawnglade Regent
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Inferno of the Star Mounts
• 1x Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wood Elves

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Land (29)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Meltdown
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x See the Unwritten
• 1x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hidden Guerrillas
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Wild Pair

Instant (11)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fog
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Once Upon a Time
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Why this deck is the way it is

The main point of this deck has always been the drug addiction method to get new people into commander. They ramp to 5 mana, play xenagos and continue to throw out high cmc, high damage utility creatures.

Due to this it's very easy for a new player to win their first pod of commander without letting people go easy on them and have fun.

For players that have played magic before there's some obvious lines to run that new players will miss and this is to mostly reward knowledgeable and creative players.

There are high card draw engines to keep the deck out of top deck mode and to help the deck even survive in top deck mode, the deck can go fast and it can go slow. It's truly a mid range Gruul beatdown deck.

Why So few lands, but so many high cmc creatures

The magic number of high cmc creatures to me has always seemed to be about 17-22 depending on the play tested cards at the time. The few lands is because we only need about 3 due to the amount of ramp and tutors to keep the deck going. Since so much of our ramp finds lands we only need to hit about 3 cmc to start really turning online. This is mostly due to we have mana dorks, burst/one time use mana in the case of dockside and tinder wall. We also have free creature into the battlefield tutors with natural order, vivien, monster's advocate, lurking predators, selvayla's stamped, sneak attack and see the unwritten. Due to a lot of these cheats I've found running more lands typically results in a mana flood in the mid-late game since we trim the deck so much as is.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	27 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.79
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Gold, Monarch Emblem, Treasure