Power-Bottom Scrap - Grenzo

Commander / EDH Artifact BR (Rakdos) Combo

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Ramp (22)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Diamond Lion
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Manakin
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Workhorse

Going power-bottom (13)

• 1x Zhalfirin Void
• 1x Tel-Jilad Stylus
• 1x Fire Prophecy
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Soldevi Digger
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Canal Dredger
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Clone Shell
• 1x Epitaph Golem

Draw (5)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Gotta go fast (3)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Thopter Engineer
• 1x Anger

Dump synergy (19)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Soldevi Digger
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Canal Dredger
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Epitaph Golem

Important scrap (14)

• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Perilous Myr
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Mindclaw Shaman
• 1x Sly Requisitioner
• 1x Workhorse

Seek and destroy (8)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Fire Prophecy
• 1x Shenanigans
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Nekrataal
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Duplicant

Commander (1)

Lands (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Homeward Path
• 9x Mountain
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Zhalfirin Void
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Sacrifice (10)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks

Protecc (4)

• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity

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{B}{R} Power-Bottom Scrap {R}{B}

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

7/10 - Optimized

Greetings, and welcome to my dungeon ! See these rusty tools, over there ?
... No ? Oh, right, sorry. _Pays {2}._ Now you see it ? Yes, I know that's an Iron Myr, but that's part of an infinite combo kill. Do I have your attention now ? Good.

Why Grenzo ?

I wanted to build a Grenzo deck for a long time, and by the time I found the card I also wanted to build an artifact deck. Both ideas collided, and there you have it !

So, why should you play Grenzo ? Welp, first of all you don't have the choice in that specific deck since it won't do anything without Grenzo on the board. You'll manipulate the bottom of your library, so you **need** Grenzo. And if you're not playing Grenzo because you don't have a deck for that, find someone who have one you can borrow, because it's awesome to play.

Pro and cons

Pro :

• Original, not everybody is using the bottom of their library.
• Super fun to pilot.
• Surprisingly strong by playing a ton of jank.
• Looks like manadork tribal, so you'll be under the radar most part of the game.

Cons :

• Relies on having a 2/2 on the board at every moment.
• Kunoros, Hound of Athreos and such are just killing the deck, but surprisingly Leyline of the Void dosen't hurt you much.

Early game

Like said previously, you need Grenzo on the board to start your engine, BUT that doesn't mean you have to play him on turn 2 ; if you have a manadork to play, play the manadork t2, so you can play Grenzo t3 and activate him with the extra mana.
**Play Grenzo with X = 0**, it makes the deck quicker, and you only have 2 creatures out of 39 which have 3+ power, so don't spend mana you can't afford to.

Once Grenzo is on the field, you want to snowball a ton of manas, so try to play manadorks and ramp pieces from your hand, but not anything else, just pump your extra mana into Grenzo to randomly fill your board and graveyard. You have one goal : to find Reito Lantern, Soldevi Digger, Epitaph Golem or The Cauldron of Eternity and put it on the battlefield.
Once it's done, things may get ugly, so brace yourself.

Mid game

This is a combo deck, so your mid game will be terrifying both for you and your opponents ; they're on the verge of defeat and you have to pull it out or you'll have to rebuild important pieces and the game may slip right in front of you.

To prevent a slowdown, a huge graveyard is a plus, and having a ton of manas will help you recast Grenzo even if he died 2 or 3 times without being totally out of the game. Protecting Grenzo with Lightning Greaves or Cloak and Dagger is a way to save some manas, and with one of the previous cards allowing to stuff the bottom of your library with your graveyard, you can recur creatures if needed.

And once you're ready to survive whatever your opponents will throw you when they'll sense the danger, it's time to find a combo !

Combo kill

Your way to win is by combo kill the whole table, and fortunatly there's plenty of ways to do so. Oh, and when I said it was important that Grenzo sticks on the table, I really meant it since it's also the source of all the combos.

The principle is fairly simple : get a sacrifice outlet, get a way to put cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library repeatedly, and don't be negative on mana by sacrificing a creature, putting it on the bottom of your library and getting it out with Grenzo. For instance, Epitaph Golem + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Palladium Myr is an infinite loop of sacrifice/ETB with Grenzo and a source of haste on the field. But Ashnod's Altar + Murderous Rider is already infinite with Grenzo and _without_ a source of haste.

If you're positive on mana (Priest of Gix, Pitiless Plunderer, and many, many more), you can generate infinite mana, and if you have infinite mana, you have infinite Grenzo activation, allowing you to get cards like Judith, the Scourge Diva and ping the whole table to death.

Choices

- No Teferi's Puzzle Box or Mindmoil : as strong as it looks in a Grenzo deck, it's just sloooow. At least, the Puzzle Box distrupts opponents hands and is and artifact, but meh.
- Crystal Ball is still in the deck, but this is **so good** ! It looks like nothing, but scry 2 is awesome, trust me on this one.
- The deck is pretty low on lands but still works well. Having few lands that comes out of Grenzo's abitlity is a good thing. Had on my mind to get out one more land and slot in a Crucible of Worlds.
- Cloak and Dagger, not a good card, but at least it protects Grenzo for free, and you get a bit more power too which allows you to get out Scrap Trawler and Epitaph Golem more easily.
- Few draw cards, because most of your mana will be pumped into Grenzo anyway.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 37 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Myr 1/1 C, On an Adventure, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure