Gruul Zoo

Premodern RG (Gruul)

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Land (22)

• 2x Bloodstained Mire
• 4x Forest
• 4x Karplusan Forest
• 5x Mountain
• 3x Treetop Village
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Seal of Fire
• 2x Sylvan Library

Creature (17)

• 3x Grim Lavamancer
• 4x Jackal Pup
• 4x Mogg Fanatic
• 4x River Boa
• 2x Skyshroud Elite

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Assault / Battery
• 4x Call of the Herd

Instant (11)

• 1x Fireblast
• 3x Incinerate
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Naturalize

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 2x Crumble
• 3x Red Elemental Blast

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Hull Breach

Creature (3)

• 3x Ravenous Baloth

Artifact (3)

• 3x Tormod's Crypt

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Mengu's workshop had a youtube video with this

From looking at it, it feels like a RDW except it has access to Naturalize, Sylvan Library and Call of the Herd for grinding out value. Similar creatures, a lot of burn...

Losing white seems to lose us lifegain and Swords to plowshares (replaced with burn). Sideboarded Ravenous Baloth gives us some lifegain.

See red-green-white list here for comparison: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/zoo-three-deuce/?cb=1732893540 ... Bigger creatures

Note: Only 14 cards in sideboard, so some wiggle room there for 1 more...

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Archetype analysis:

Looking at mtgtop8 > premodern > zoo / three deuce > whole year 2024 > compare,,,, we can see what cards are most popular in zoo: swords to plowshares, lightning bolt, call of the herd, fire/ice, rancor, birds of paradise, phyrexian negator... Roughly in this order. So we see that zoo typically goes with mid-sized manacurve and has access to a lot of colors... Typical decklist might look like this: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=57808&d=631883 ... so has black & white too...

Date added	2 weeks
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Premodern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 3 Rares 23 - 6 Uncommons 13 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.76
Tokens	Elephant 3/3 G