Xenagos, God of Big Boys

Commander / EDH Aggro Casual Multiplayer RG (Gruul)

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Manabase (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Big Boys (12)

• 1x Malignus
• 1x Phyrexian Hydra
• 1x Bloodthirster
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Worldspine Wurm
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Game Enders (4)

• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Card Advantage/Utility (19)

• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Soul of the Harvest

Support/Enablers (13)

• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Unnatural Growth
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Commander (1)

Ramp/Accelerants (19)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Removal (10)

• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Blasphemous Act

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Other (6)

• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Card Advantage/Utility (1)

• 1x Survival of the Fittest

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Xenagos, God of Revels is my baby, the very first deck I ever built when I first started playing magic. Evolved from a creature-based budget Ruric Thar deck.

This is about as straight forward as it gets. No infinite combos here, just beat face and win games. You can easily throw in a Zealous Conscripts for the 2 card Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker combo, but that's no fun in my opinion. This deck performs very well and can start clearing the table very early.

There are nearly 20 forms of ramp in this deck, including dorks, artifacts, and sorceries, as well as several ways to help cheat out our big boys. This allows us to be very explosive, very early.

Most times people would complain about having nearly 40 creatures in their deck, but I have a very extensive mana dork package and great utility creatures to help fetch, cheat out, and enable the BIG BOYS of the deck.

An ideal hand would be 2-3 lands, 2 forms of ramp, and some big boys to start beating down on everyone. Most times, I can start beating up on the table by turn 3-4, dealing upwards of 10-20 damage to a player or even completely taking them out.

With the perfect hand, you would need 2-3 lands, a combination of two of these mana artifacts Sol Ring or Mana Crypt or Gruul Signet, Malignus/Phyrexian Hydra, and Chandra's Ignition. You can Turn 2 Xenagos, turn 3 Phyrexian Hydra/Malignus for an instant kill, turn 4 Chandra's Ignition for the win.

That's assuming people haven't figured out that your stuff needs to be removed and/or countered. Also assuming you get such a hand, this will ensure the table to constantly look at you as a threat from then on. While the deck for the most part is just a simple, wholesome beatdown deck, it can be pretty degenerate at times.

Win Cons Show

The win cons in this deck are pretty straight forward:

Blightsteel Colossus + Chandra's Ignition

Malignus or Phyrexian Hydra + Xenagos, God of Revels + Chandra's Ignition

Selvala's Stampede

and of course, just beating face in general is our big win con.

Fun Interactions/Synergies Show

Xenagos, God of Revels + Strionic Resonator - Quadruple a single creature's power or haste up two creatures at once!

Pathbreaker Ibex + Any big boys, like Malignus, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, or Worldspine Wurm - Just having the big boys on the field and giving Ibex haste with Xenagos's trigger will make this a great way to put the hurt on the table.

Vigor + Blasphemous Act - Gives your creatures 13 +1/+1 counters, making them HUGE.

Tooth and Nail and Defense of the Heart Combos:

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Blightsteel Colossus - Double Blightsteels, usually means taking two people out at once.

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Malignus - Double Malignus, and if one opponent is at least 40 hp, you can have one be a 40/40 and the other one be a 20/20. If you have a trample engine like Thunderfoot Baloth or Nylea, God of the Hunt, it usually means someone is dying.

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Worldspine Wurm - Double 15/15 Wurms, one can be a 30/30 and the other can stay a 15/15, and when the copy dies, you get the wurm tokens!

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pathbreaker Ibex - Saves a Xenagos trigger for another big boy, making the most out of Ibex's ability.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Splash colors	RG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.52
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Spirit 1/1 C, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample