Gruul EDH - Zacama Enrage

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser RGW (Naya) Tribal

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Land (40)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 5x Forest
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (4)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Creature (27)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Bellowing Aegisaur
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boros Reckoner
• 1x Burning Sun's Avatar
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Forerunner of the Empire
• 1x Gishath, Sun's Avatar
• 1x Gruul Ragebeast
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Knotvine Mystic
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Polyraptor
• 1x Raging Regisaur
• 1x Raging Swordtooth
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x Ranging Raptors
• 1x Regisaur Alpha
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Samut, Voice of Dissent
• 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
• 1x Spitemare
• 1x Temple Altisaur
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Pyromaster
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Enchantment (8)

• 1x AEther Flash
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Pandemonium
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Zacama, Primal Calamity Enrage EDH

Concept

Created for The Trinisphere's Rivals of Ixalan Episode.

Zacama lends itself more to a combo-centric EDH commander with cards like Cloudstone Curio and Temur Sabertooth giving you the ability to re-cast him repeatedly in a turn, untapping all your lands and possibly generating infinite mana. That being said I really just wanted an excuse to play Polyraptor, my favorite card from RIX, so I went with an Enrage-centric build. Additionally, I feel that this deck would fair strong against in my micro-meta: In a matchup against Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca and Elenda, the Dusk Rose.

This deck uses all manner of controlled damage generation effects to allow me to damage my own creatures and/or destroy smaller creatures on the other side of the field.

How It Plays

Normally, a 9-mana Zacama EDH deck will probably be ramping as quickly as possible to reach 9-mana but this build is less about Zacama, and more about Enraging dinosaurs, so we have more mid-range plays other than ramp. Because dinosaurs are somewhat cost-ineffective, we're going to need to run oppressive control cards to interact and slow down my opponents who are more than likely going to be trying to combo-off. Zacama is mainly a fall-back option and a effective mana sink.

Once we've established the synergy of Dealing damage & Enraged Creatures we can start to generate large amounts of advantage for us (Ripjaw Raptor, Polyraptor), or disadvantage for them (Silverclad Ferocidons, Spitemare). From there, we can create a boardstate that is extremely oppressive to non-interactive players, controlling most aspect of the game.

Card Selection

This deck is slightly catered towards my meta matchup - A wide Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca merfolk and a sac-centric Elenda, the Dusk Rose vampire deck. Because both decks are indicative of wide weenie type strategies, I thought incremental damaging effects would be optimal in synergizing with my deck while defeating theirs.

Enraging

Cards that like to deal damage at a controlled rate

• Pyrohemia - The real MVP of this deck. Allows for a controlled and instantaneous stream of damage.
• Pandemonium - A riskier meta-specific choice. This global Warstorm surge promotes more interaction among my opponents, and can be mitigated by Archetype of Endurance.
• Warstorm Surge - A classic Timmy Big-Beaters-Go-Boom spell, although this time I may be targeting my own creatures with the triggers.
• Chandra's Ignition - Similarly, this is normally used as a board-wipe, but now has the flexibility of being used on a Forerunner of the Empire or Oracle of Mul Daya to safely trigger Enrage.
• Chandra, Pyromaster - A passable draw-engine, this card's +1 gets a lot better due to the versatile options of removing blockers or hitting myself to enrage a creature of mine.
• Gruul Ragebeast - Similar to Warstorm Surge, this allows my high average power/toughness to oppress my opponents. This one has the added benefit of triggering enrage immediately.
• Endbringer - This guy is my honorary Timmy-Tim... that is, the most impactful "tap to deal 1" creature.
• Inferno Titan - Once again, the versatility of spreading out the 3 damage allows for multiple enrage triggers or removal.

Enragers

Cards that like to be dealt damage.

• Polyraptor, the king of Enrage.
• Silverclad Ferocidons is another great addition from RIX, these fellas can quickly devastate opponents with just a handful of triggers.
• Ripjaw Raptor is probably the best bang-for-your-Enraged-buck, this guy is a solid four-drop.
• Vigor was adopted as an honorary angry dino. This Avatar gives all your creatures Snapping Sailbacks' enrage ability.
• Spitemare is smaller, cost-ineffective Enrage-adjacent creature along with Boros Reckoner. Both can create more Enrage triggers when enraged, or simply dump extra damage onto opponents' close-to-death creatures.

Tech

Cards for my specific meta. Since this deck was made for The Trinisphere's RIX Commander episode, I know I'll be going up against a sac-centric Elenda, the Dusk Rose and a wider Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca deck.

• Hallowed Burial provides me with an option to deal with Elenda's death-centric strategy.
• Rampaging Ferocidon prevents the creation of an obscene number of tokens and mitigate the effects of Blood Artist triggers by way of negating lifegain.
• Sylvan Reclamation gets the greenlight to combat anthem and combo Enchantment/Artifacts in both decks.
• AEther Flash feels like a hard lock against the smaller vampire & merfolk tribal creatures.

Gameplay

The Trinisphere - Kumena vs Zacama vs Elenda

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.38
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/3 G w/ Trample, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts
Folders	decks, The Trinisphere Decklists, EDH, ded