Gruul: Land, Creature, Swing

Standard*

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Creature (27)

• 4x Briarpack Alpha
• 3x Burning-Tree Emissary
• 3x Deadly Recluse
• 3x Flinthoof Boar
• 4x Ghor-Clan Rampager
• 4x Rakdos Cackler
• 2x Stromkirk Noble
• 4x Zhur-Taa Druid

Land (20)

• 7x Forest
• 4x Gruul Guildgate
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Rootbound Crag

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Gruul War Chant
• 2x Lightning Talons
• 2x Madcap Skills

Instant (6)

• 2x Searing Spear
• 4x Shock

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Wild Guess

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Madcap Skills

Instant (6)

• 2x Electrickery
• 4x Naturalize

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Pillar of Flame

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I recently went 3 and 2 at FNM with this deck. It's pretty standard aggro faire. Try to drop a Turn 1 Cackler or Noble, Turn 2 Burning-Tree Emissary with a Zhur-Taa Druid, then maybe a Flinthoof Boar on Turn 3 or one of the enchantments.

It includes Briarpack Alpha and Ghor-Clan Rampager for combat tricks. Shocks and Spears for removal. Gruul War Chant, Lightning Talons, and Madcap Skills are all there to make creatures more deadly and harder to block. Deadly Recluse is there for all those flying creatures or the really nasty ones.

So far I've run into trouble with not getting mana screwed. Highlights of FNM include multiple mulligans to four. It also performs poorly if I don't win quick and hard. Advice to extend the deck's capabilities in that area would be helpful.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 12 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.30