Grenzo Doomsday EDH (Turn 1 Kill!)

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive

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Sorcery (21)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Duress
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (9)

• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Goblin Sledder
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (35)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 2x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (12)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Grenzo Doomsday

This is my Competitive Grenzo list. Based around using Doomsday to create a winning stack of cards. The typical Doomsday stack consists of (top to Bottom)

1. Flex card

2. Zealous Conscripts

3. Mad Auntie

4. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

5. Priest of Gix

This stack lets you use Grenzo, Dungeon Warden's ability to put the Priest of Gix in play, then get Kiki-Jiki, then copy the priest leaving mana floating, this allows you to get Mad Auntie (boosting Grenzo's power to 3 if he's at 2, another note: if you have enough mana you can copy Mad Auntie with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to regenerate him or Grenzo.) and then getting Zealous Conscripts allowing you to get an infinite number of conscripts. Feel free to use Treasonous Ogre in place of Priest of Gix when appropriate. You should NEVER play doomsday and pass the turn, you will not survive until your next turn. You always want to leave 2 mana up to combo out. If you have more mana up you can use Phyrexian Rager to draw a card to protect your combo (such as Imp's Mischief).

Another main combo in this deck is Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon . This makes an infinite amount of mana(if you don't know how this combo works check out This), and allows you to get out your entire deck on the battlefield with Grenzo. Keep in mind that you will need another creature card in your graveyard, or Grenzo on the battlefield to end the loop.

When piloting this deck one must first decide which combo to pursue from looking at the opening hand. Usually, Doomsday is the most efficient route, but reanimating Worldgorger Dragon is also fairly easy. If your opening hand has Insidious Dreams, then you should pursue the Worldgorger Combo. With Insidious Dreams discard 3 cards and set up the top of your library like so:

1. Faithless Looting

2. Animate Dead

3. Worldgorger Dragon

This will allow you to get Worldgorger in the grave, then immediately bring him back with Animate Dead, winning you the game. Another way to use Insidious Dreams is as a Pseudo-Doomsday by discarding 5 cards and setting up the top of your library with:

1. Surging Flame

2. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

3. Zealous Conscripts

4. Mad Auntie

5. Priest of Gix

Surging Flames puts cards on the bottom of so you can Grenzo them out and win.

This deck tries to protect its combos using targeted discard effects such as Duress, and Thoughtseize. This can be problematic at tables where there are more than one control player. Another way to disrupt your opponents is through Blood Moon or Magus of the Moon, finally we have our "counterspells", Pyroblast, and Imp's Mischief. Although, this deck is still weak to Blue control decks like Azami, Lady of Scrolls or Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, but Defense Grid is another source of preventing counterspells or kill spells.

How to win on turn 1!

Play an untapped red land, play Faithless Looting discarding Worldgorger Dragon+ any other creature. Then, play out Lotus Petal crack it for then use the black to play Dark Ritual, you should now have floating, use that to cast Animate Dead/Necromancy/Dance of the Dead. Now you have infinite mana and can easily win.

If you want to look further into this deck, check out the primer here

Comments, questions, or concerns? Feel free to a leave a comment!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.17
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goblin 1/1 R
Folders	deck ideas, Competitive Deck Ideas, EDH, Commander EDH, EDH, good decks, Other people's folder, Under 1000, CEDH