Pride of the Kraul

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Counters Lands Multiplayer Tokens

Trompi

Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 1x Dunes of the Dead
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x High Market
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Control (9)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Pox
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Tutor (3)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dimir House Guard

Lifegain (2)

• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

Tokens (16)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Fertile Imagination
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Rite of Belzenlok
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Turntimber Sower
• 1x Wolfcaller's Howl
• 1x Worm Harvest

Card Draw (12)

• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

Recursion (3)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Skullwinder

Sac Outlet (3)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Turntimber Sower

Enhancer (2)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Protection (2)

• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Golgari Charm

Commander (1)

Ramp (15)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Blood Funnel
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Edge of Autumn
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Sol Ring

Land Sac (9)

• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Natural Balance
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Turntimber Sower
• 1x World Shaper

Evasion (2)

• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Eldrazi Monument

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Control (4)

• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Wave of Vitriol

Sac Outlet (2)

• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Spawning Pit

Tokens (4)

• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Zendikar's Roil

Evasion (1)

• 1x Overwhelming Stampede

Ramp (2)

• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Springbloom Druid

Enhancer (1)

• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Protection (1)

• 1x Veil of Summer

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Description

Welcome to the Swarm lead by the Kraul Death Priest himself!
The deck is build with high emphasis on consistent early game into unexpected explosive turns in the mid to late game while giving other casual decks around the table enough time to fight back. That being said, Mazirek is a proud and evil Kraul who can't be stopped from occasionally soft locking someone out of the game or partially strapping the table of their precious land base.

All help and suggestions much appreciated!

Retired: I have rebuild this deck into my Noble's Pride deck, featuring Korvold as its commander.

Strategy

The key to succes with this deck is being able to play the first token maker. Then everything else then just falls into place but without a token maker, you're screwed. Because of this, what I like to see in my opening hand is a token maker plus enough lands and/or ramp to cast it.

After you've got your board growing, you'll want to look for one of two things:

A) Setting up furthermore for a bigger, more explosive turn.
With a handful of creatures on the board, you can start using your draw spells, some of the bigger ramp spells and/or tutoring for the best finisher in given situation. It is important to realize how many turns you should spend setting up before you (B) pull the trigger. This will vary from game to game and is the hardest part of piloting this deck.

B) Going off.
This deck is very combo-oriented. It usually doesn't want to play Mazirek on turn 4 or 5 and slowly snowball its board. Most of the time, I'm trying to prepare as many tokens as I can without drawing much attention and than play Mazirek with a cheap finisher in the same turn if I have one at my disposal. Otherwise, I play Mazirek a turn in advance and pray for him to survive a turn or deploy the "If you don't destroy my board, I'll kill the rest of the table." policy. In that case, however, it's important to have a plan for the upcoming 1v1 and be prepared for a board wipe after you kill the other players.

My Other Decks

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Noble's Pride

Commander / EDH Trompi

SCORE: 4 | 2 COMMENTS | 572 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER

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Cultivated Assault

Commander / EDH Trompi

SCORE: 4 | 401 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	City's Blessing, Cleric 0/1 B, Demon 6/6 B, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Human 2/2 G, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thrull 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Command Ideas, Trompi's decks