Grenzo, Scry Master!

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Combo Multiplayer

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Creature (41)

• 1x Beetleback Chief
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clone Shell
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Emrakul's Hatcher
• 1x Entomber Exarch
• 1x Epitaph Golem
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Goblin Marshal
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Invader Parasite
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mindclaw Shaman
• 1x Mogg War Marshal
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Nekrataal
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Priest of the Blood Rite
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stingscourger
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wild-Field Scarecrow
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Goblin Burrows
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Shadows of the Past

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Darksteel Pendant
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Perilous Vault
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tel-Jilad Stylus

Instant (2)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Wake the Dead

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Read the Bones

Commander (1)

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Creature (6)

• 1x Deathbringer Thoctar
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 1x Workhorse

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

Artifact (3)

• 1x Goblin Charbelcher
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Thran Turbine

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Grenzo is really fun to play since a few times you don't know what you'll get, and while that's fun, it's still quite unreliable when you need something, so I tried to fix that a little.

The best fixing cards I use are: Crystal Ball, Shadows of the Past , Temple of Malice, Epitaph Golem , Viscera Seer, Tel-Jilad Stylus and Darksteel Pendant . With them I try to control what hits the battlefield with Grenzo. Also keep in mind that our scry's should send all the creatures to the bottom, so keeping a land at the top isn't as bad as you might think, unless you have nothing else to play.

Cloak and Dagger, Opal Palace, Hero's Blade, Goblin Burrows , Purphoros, God of the Forge and Skullclamp help me to increase Grenzo's attack power to make sure whatever creature is at the bottom gets to be back from the graveyard. Although most of the creatures in this deck have power 2-3 I still use a few with 5 or 6.

Flameshadow Conjuring is just so good in this deck. With so many creatures to clone, it just gets out of hand quickly, and I've won so many games with it now that I have no regrets getting Dictate of Erebos out.

Black Market is a really good card for Grenzo, it gives us a lot of mana to use Grenzo's ability, and combined with Ashnod's Altar it gets gross sometimes.

Heartstone helps all the players, but making Grenzo's ability cost just 1 colorless makes it worth the risk.

Flayer of the Hatebound finishes games fast thanks to its ability and Grenzo's.

Since some creatures might be with higher attack when you use Grenzo's ability, they will have stay in the graveyard and the same goes for artifacts. So for those cards we have graveyard recursion such as, Entomber Exarch , Wake the Dead, Living Death, Phyrexian Delver, Increasing Ambition, Dread Return and Epitaph Golem .

For card draw we have Grim Haruspex, Corpse Augur, Read the Bones, Erebos, God of the Dead, Skullclamp, Solemn Simulacrum, Smothering Abomination and Disciple of Bolas.

Our only real mass removal is Perilous Vault, which really deals with many things that might be bothering us, specially against enchantments which can bother us...

I'm probably still missing a few cards for this deck, but I like it so far.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 33 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.59
Tokens	Copy Clone, Demon 5/5 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Goblin 1/1 R, Morph 2/2 C