GROND, the Gatebreaker EDH

Commander: Rule 0 Mono-Black

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Artifact (22)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Dragon Blood
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Griselbrand
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Skeleton Shard
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Invoke Despair
• 1x Mordor Muster
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Syphon Mind

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Creature (17)

• 1x Blade of the Oni
• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dunland Crebain
• 1x Easterling Vanguard
• 1x Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar
• 1x Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
• 1x Herald of the Dreadhorde
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Myr Scrapling
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Novice Dissector
• 1x Scavenged Brawler
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Land (32)

• 1x Barad-dur
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 21x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x War Room
• 1x Witch's Clinic

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Blood Curdle
• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Orcish Medicine
• 1x Power Word Kill
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Undying Malice
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Without Weakness

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Agent of the Shadow Thieves
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x March from the Black Gate
• 1x Okiba Reckoner Raid  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

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This is an attempt to rectify the WotC mistake of Grond, the Gatebreaker not being a normally usable Commander in EDH. This was built with a bit of a budget in mind and is not the most competitively built, so things like Poison and Infect were left off the table.

Building around a commander that wants to hit people and isn't a creature when it isn't your turn is difficult. Typical voltron tactics falter. Equipments fall off, enchantments fall off, its a troublesome thing. Being able to Crew it by having any Army is great. Being a Vehicle on opponents turns means its usually fine vs sorcery-speed creature wipes. This deck runs a lot of ramp effects (Cabal Coffers, Crypt Ghast, Caged Sun) in the understanding that reattaching equipment to Grond will need to happen. Proper maintenance on your siege engines and all that. Or maybe Grond gets Scrapped by any number of artifact hate effects, you can use the excessive mana to recast Grond and put the fear back into your opponents.

Other ideas have included making this deck into a mono-black vehicles strategy, in a Mad Max: Fury Road kind of way. Get those other creatures crewing something!

Current build can definitely run into too much mana and nothing to play, or fizzle with a lack of Army to get Grond going. Eh. Every deck can falter. Willing to hear feedback.

Is it good? Eh, it's alright.

Does it send a message? Yes.

And that message is

GROND

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander: Rule 0 legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.93
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Orc Army, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Treasure, Zombie Army 0/0 B