Budget Hogaak Smash

Commander / EDH Aggro BG (Golgari) Budget Dredge Stax

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Creature (25)

• 1x Blex, Vexing Pest  ^Flip
• 1x Borderland Explorer
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deadbridge Goliath
• 1x Dregscape Zombie
• 1x Eccentric Farmer
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Filth
• 1x Glowspore Shaman
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gorging Vulture
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Mentor
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Rot Farm Skeleton
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Demonic Embrace
• 1x Desolation
• 1x Moldervine Cloak

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Acorn Harvest
• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Drown in Filth
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Pest Summoning
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Rites of Spring
• 1x Roots of Wisdom
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Tapping at the Window
• 1x Winding Way
• 1x Witherbloom Command

Instant (10)

• 1x Corpse Churn
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Szat's Will
• 1x Tend the Pests

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Forest
• 1x Hagra Broodpit  ^Flip
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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Early commander damage is the name of the game.

Discard, dredge and mill yourself to cast Hogaak ASAP. All you need is 5 cards in the graveyard and 2 creatures on the field. Creatures that mill yourself like Stitcher's Supplier and Glowspore Shaman are doubly effective in helping us reach this prerequisite quickly. After playtesting, I've found that I can reliably cast Hogaak on turn 3-4. And since he can evade commander tax, re-casting him after he gets removed is easy. His delve grants a slight upside to discarding cards, so symmetrical discard like Mind Rake and Cunning Lethemancer generates value for yourself. Similarly, since he doesn't rely on lands, symmetrical land destruction like Desolation and Smallpox will usually set your opponents back further than yourself.

Top Ranked	Achieved #61 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #31 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aggro 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 35 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	Llanowar Elves 1/1 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Serf 0/1 B, Squirrel 1/1 G, Thrull 0/1 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
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