Ruric Thar Stompy

Commander / EDH Aggro RG (Gruul)

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Creature (58)

• 1x Aloe Alchemist
• 1x Arbor Colossus
• 1x Avatar of Slaughter
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Beetleback Chief
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Burning-Tree Emissary
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Deadbridge Goliath
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gallia of the Endless Dance
• 1x Garruk's Horde
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Ghor-Clan Rampager
• 1x Gruff Triplets
• 1x Gruul Ragebeast
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Hero of Oxid Ridge
• 1x Heroes' Bane
• 1x Hivespine Wolverine
• 1x Homura, Human Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Masked Admirers
• 1x Mul Daya Channelers
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Nyxborn Hydra
• 1x Pawpatch Recruit
• 1x Preyseizer Dragon
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Pyrewild Shaman
• 1x Raccoon Rallier
• 1x Scrapshooter
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Stonebrow, Krosan Hero
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Territorial Allosaurus
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Tunnel Ignus
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Webstrike Elite
• 1x Werebear
• 1x Wolfir Silverheart
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald
• 1x Zhur-Taa Druid

Land (35)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 22x Forest
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Primal Surge

Commander (1)

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Triumph of Ferocity

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Maybeboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Battle Mammoth
• 1x Bloated Contaminator
• 1x Challenger Troll
• 1x Hulking Raptor
• 1x Old-Growth Troll
• 1x Pugnacious Hammerskull
• 1x Rhonas the Indomitable
• 1x Six
• 1x Surrak, the Hunt Caller
• 1x Timbermare
• 1x Topiary Stomper

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Colossal Majesty

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Building a deck around Ghalta, Primal Hunger.

I'm currently thinking about building this deck so that every single creature in it is undercosted. To elaborate:

1. In the first draft of the deck, either every single creature will have printed power higher than its mana value, or it is reasonably likely to get that way once cost reduction and ETB abilities are taken into account.

2. I hope to make this better than a precon, let's say 4-6 power ranking, but don't aspire to cEDH. If I get a full deck list and mock it up and find that it's far below that what's played at my LGS, then I'm prepared to relax the theme.

3. It's hard to search databases for this design constraint, so I'm starting with what's in my personal collection. Just by skimming through my green and artifact cards I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make a first draft without shopping. After that, we'll see.

12/7: The first draft is complete. Next step: move cards the cards I own in the "maybeboard" to the main deck, probably cutting some of the weaker vanilla or French vanilla creatures to make room. I've also started considering some creatures that aren't "undercosted." Secondary themes in the deck: self-mill and +1/+1 counters.

3/13: After months of thinking about it, I've found an idea I'm interested in: all creatures. (Except Concordant Crossroads and Primal Surge.)

3/17: I've finally got the deck to exactly 100 cards, reduced the maybeboard to the cards I'm still thinking about AND would have to buy, and sleeved it. It wound up with a few more noncreature spells than I mentioned above, but there's still more than 50 creatures and only one nonpermanent spell, i.e. close enough to noncreature in my opinion. Getting it truly down to one or zero noncreature spells would require some shopping and probably make it both worse and less fun anyway, in my opinion. Based on a little goldfishing it has a very high curve so it still needs work, but that can wait until another day or at least more testing.

3/20: Because I thought it was weird to have a nearly-all-creature deck for no mechanical reason (and, frankly, because I'm insane), I've made the commander Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, and added a dozen or so red creatures. It's still mostly green, but has more haste enablers, more fliers, and more interaction in general.

Date added	3 months
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Faerie 1/1 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Pawpatch Recruit 1/1 G, Plot, Treasure