Devour Players

Commander / EDH

Swekyde

Creature (26)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Anger
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beetleback Chief
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Emrakul's Hatcher
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Indrik Stomphowler
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stingerfling Spider
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Sarkhan Vol
• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

Land (37)

• 1x Flamekin Village
• 12x Forest
• 1x Fungal Reaches
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of the False God

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Artifact (6)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Fling
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Soul's Fire
• 1x Unravel the Aether

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Firespout
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x One Dozen Eyes
• 1x Savage Twister
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Commander (1)

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God, do we die to Torpor Orb. Standard R/G/X ETB dudes the deck.

Three most important things (in order it seems) for Thromok are having Haste, having Trample, and having lots of dudes to eat. At X=3, we most care about Trample since a 9/9 otherwise isn't the end of the world as a three shot kill. At X=4, we two shot kill, so both are about equally important. At X=5 we're one shot killing, so Haste is far more important to ensure that we even get to attack.

Going for the one shot kill is a bit more of a perfect storm and requires lots of targets to devour, so if you want to do it often you need lots of sources of tokens. Instead we went in favour of grinding things out; we ramp hard and then after our ETB dudes have done their duty, we drop them and go for it.

Drawing cards is a little difficult for this deck, so we need pseudo-draw when we can't find real card draw. Stalking Vengeance and Warstorm Surge get us some burn stapled to our creatures as they come and go. Fecundity adds in on this to make sure that when a creature dies, it replaces itself or more.

All in all, these effects couple with the repeatable devour target generation from our Planeswalkers, many who have a second function. Garruk Wildspeaker ramps us, or helps us go for it with Trample if we don't need tokens. Xenagos also helps us ramp when we don't need tokens. Sarkhan gives us Haste if we don't want to steal a dude and eat it that turn. Finally Garruk, Primal Hunter gives us another much needed source of raw card draw.

In theory we should go deeper on making a ton of tokens and then eating them to go for it in one go, but the local meta gets a little too scared of you landing too many permanents. That means that Overruns and other anthem-style effects aren't as good, neither are cards that make tokens at a cost and do nothing else. We just can't afford to stick those permanents and hope to not get locked out of the game by the other three control players.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.06
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Beast 5/5 G, Dragon 4/4 R, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elf Druid 1/1 G, Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Kobold 0/1 R, Plant 0/1 G, Satyr 2/2 GR, Wolf 2/2 G, Wurm 6/6 G