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Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual God Haste Multiplayer Ramp RG (Gruul) Trample

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Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bridgeworks Battle  ^Flip
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Stump Stomp  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Extra Combat (9)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
• 1x Bloodthirster
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Seize the Day

Utility (5)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits

Tutor (3)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Ramp (19)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rapacious One
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Wood Elves

Beater (13)

• 1x Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Bloodthirster
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Quartzwood Crasher
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth

Protection (4)

• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1x Tyvar's Stand

Commander (1)

Removal (14)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bridgeworks Battle  ^Flip
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Incinerator of the Guilty
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Ram Through
• 1x Stump Stomp  ^Flip

Draw (7)

• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Extra Damage (3)

• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Ram Through
• 1x Temur Battle Rage

Cheater (2)

• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Sneak Attack

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Other (1)

• 1x Port Razer

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Who am I?

Hi, i'm an edh player, i don't play competitive, i just wanna have fun with my friends and try to win. I love building decks and i'm always trying to find better and funnier solution to improve my decks. Usually i'm starting with a budget deck and after some games, if is it worth, i replace some budget cards with stronger ones.

Why Xenagos?

This was one of the first edh deck i built. I was looking for a good commander for big creature deck and Xenagos is just fantastic and so overpowered.
First of all, Indestructible. I love commander hard to remove, and this is so hard to remove, expecially if you keep it as an enchantment. Keeping Xenagos an Indestructible Enchantment is safer and there isn't advantages in having Xenagos as a creature. Indestructible blocker? 6 commander damage? totally irrelevant in this deck.
He provides haste every combat and makes creature HUGE. What else? I can't ask for anything better than this.

Game plan/Card Selection

{R} and {G} Provides amazing big boyz, that's why I don't play any Eldrazi in this deck. I also excluded infect stuff, because i think is too much cancer for a friendly playground.
Game plan is really simple here:
ramp as much as you can in the early game and play Xenagos. After that you can start playing big boyz and destroy your opponents. Every creature in the deck enter the battlefield with a huge hit mark on his head, but removal isn't a problem, you have to accept it, because if a creature dies, a bigger one will come into play next turn.

Utility Lands

There isn't a lot to say about these. I run Kessig Wolf Run and Skarrg, the Rage Pits just in case i need trample, I think they are more than enough, I don't see the point of running some other cards that give trample. If (like most of the time) I don't need trample, they give me mana.
Spinerock Knoll and Mosswort Bridge are really easy to activate and can be really useful.

Removal

Since the deck is focused on creature I added some removal incorporated in a big boy (like Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Balefire Dragon, Bane of Progress, Deus of Calamity and all their friends). Apart from that I run classic {G} and {R} removal like Beast Within or Chaos Warp and Chandra's Ignition is an auto-include in this deck.

Card Draw

I tried card like Elemental Bond or Soul of the Harvest with ETB draw trigger, but they look too slow in this kind of deck and I recently added cards like Hunter's Insight or Return of the Wildspeaker so I could draw a lot of card in a single spot, looking for what I need to win the game.
I think this is the best way of drawing in this deck.

Extra Combat

Good synergy with Xenagos, I like this theme and I decided to run 6 spells (3 of them are also good creature) in this category and they are just cool.

Ramp

Classic ramp spell, some of them could be repladed with cheaper solution but for my meta is fine. Obviously I run some big boy ramp, right Rapacious One?

Some other consideration

I tried and removed greedy cards like Blood Mist or Gratuitous Violence,they are cool, but they aren't truly necessary. Cards like Worldspine Wurm are amazing but I changed it with something cheaper, 6/7 cmc drop are the best in this deck. You really need something to drop after Xenagos ETB.(you can see all the swap in the Update section).
There are few combos in the deck, but most of times I just win via "normal" combat damage (haven't tried it yet, but with all the new big draw added, find a combo could become more common).

Weakness

The main weakness of this deck is Xenagos itself, if your opponents find a solution to remove it, maybe multiple times, the deck is dead. This deck without his commander is completely lost. Another bad thing is stax. Stax cards like Blind Obedience, Frozen Aether and even Propaganda will slow down your game and decrease Xenagos power.

Mulligan

The most important thing is having 1-2 ramp spell in the opening hand. Something like 2-3 lands, 2 ramp and a fat boy is a really good hand.

Wincon

Combo:

• Savage Ventmaw + Aggravated Assault = Infinite combat steps.
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion with 5+ cards in hand + Aggravated Assault = Infinite combat steps.
• Bear Umbra + Hellkite Charger = Infinite combat steps.
• any creature + Bear Umbra + Aggravated Assault = Infinite combat steps.
• Chandra's Ignition + Malignus = Lethal damage to your opponents.

Other dangerous stuff:

• Atarka, World Render *thick*, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Malignus or Rampaging Brontodon (and we can add almost every creature in the deck) can easily do thousands of damage by themself
• Temur Battle Rage, Finale of Devastation, or Pathbreaker Ibex can add some extra damage
• Aggravated Assault, Hellkite Charger, Relentless Assault, Seize the Day, Scourge of the Throne, Moraug, Fury of Akoum provides extra combat which means a lot of damage (example: Atarka, World Render *thick* starting combat -> become 12/10 and do 24 damage. Extra combat -> become 24/22 and do 48 damage. So 24+48=72 damage in one turn.
• Siege Behemoth, Bedlam: most of creatures have trample or flying (or can get it) but if you wanna go face...
• Giant Adephage, Quartzwood Crasher can generate a really nice board
• Ilharg, the Raze-Boar and Sneak Attack are really nice cheaters
• I wanna add also Heroic Intervention, Vines of Vastwood and Bolt Bend since they can change the game in a lethal attack.

Wishlist/Update

11/11/2020, Big update here, removed some too greedy or too expensive cards:

• IN Drakuseth, Maw of Flames -> OUT Tyrant's Familiar
• IN Kenrith's Transformation -> OUT Acidic Slime
• IN Rampaging Brontodon -> OUT Vigor
• IN Vines of Vastwood -> OUT Forest
• IN Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion -> OUT Inferno Titan
• IN Moraug, Fury of Akoum -> OUT Utvara Hellkite
• IN Etali, Primal Storm -> OUT Worldspine Wurm
• IN Ilharg, the Raze-Boar -> OUT Gratuitous Violence
• IN Return of the Wildspeaker -> OUT Zendikar Resurgent
• IN Seize the Day -> OUT Savage Beating
• IN Scourge of the Throne -> OUT Mage Slayer
• IN Heroic Intervention -> OUT Spellbreaker Behemoth
• IN Greater Good -> OUT Blood Mist
• IN Chaos Warp -> OUT Spearbreaker Behemoth
• IN Nature's Claim -> OUT Vandalblast
• IN Hunter's Insight -> OUT Soul's Majesty
• IN Fyndhorn Elves -> OUT Solemn Simulacrum
• IN Valakut Awakening   -> OUT Mountain
• IN Temur Battle Rage -> OUT Overwhelming Stampede
• IN Three Visits -> OUT Into the Wilds
• IN Stomping Ground -> OUT Forest (nothing to say about that)

17/12/2020:

• IN Signal the Clans -> OUT Lurking Predators (tutor a creature it's easier than hoping to top deck it)

25/04/2021:

• IN Bolt Bend -> OUT Bedlam (good instant speed protection)
• IN Sneak Attack -> OUT Seasons Past (another cheater)

16/07/2021:

• IN Arbor Elf -> OUT Explosive Vegetation (Trying cheaper ramp)
• IN Joraga Treespeaker -> OUT Skyshroud Claim (Trying cheaper ramp)

27/09/2021:

• IN Ram Through -> OUT Finale of Devastation (I found a better use for finale of devastation in my Hapatra deck)
• IN Wild Growth -> OUT Farhaven Elf (better ramp)
• IN Tamiyo's Safekeeping -> OUT Heroic Intervention (Better use of heroic intervention into another deck)

09/11/2022:

• IN Bloodthirster -> OUT Deus of Calamity (new perfect fit card for this deck)

22/06/2024:

• IN Tyvar's Stand -> OUT Vines of Vastwood
• IN Incinerator of the Guilty -> OUT Steel Hellkite
• IN Anzrag, the Quake-Mole -> OUT Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• IN Old Gnawbone -> OUT Malignus

Some cards I'd like to try:

Meta

Here are some example of decks I'm facing in my playgroup:

{B}{R} deck:mogis-god-of-rakdos-fun
{R} deck:zizou-land-punisher
{U} Jalira and the Big Boyz
{U} deck:orvar-to-plagiarize-is-to-have-style
{B}{G} deck:beledros-the-sacrifices-are-paid-off

My other decks

{B} Bontu, Mrs Crocodile Dundee
{B}{G} Snakes. Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?
{B}{U} Come on, You Weren't Attacking with This
{B}{U}{R} Marchesa, Be Right Back
{G}{R}{W} Ghired Create a Token that's a Copy of WHAT?

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed. Feedback and are welcome!

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Dinosaur Beast X/X G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Treasure
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