Rat in a cage

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual Ramp RG (Gruul)

robertforry

Creature (30)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Briarhorn
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Flamekin Harbinger
• 1x Gaea's Revenge
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Glade Watcher
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Hellspark Elemental
• 1x Incandescent Soulstoke
• 1x Ivy Elemental
• 1x Liege of the Tangle
• 1x Lightning Serpent
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Seed Guardian
• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Smokebraider
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spark Elemental
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Undergrowth Champion
• 1x Walker of the Grove
• 1x Zendikar Incarnate

Instant (2)

• 1x Harrow
• 1x Second Harvest

Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 16x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Ghost Town
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Zendikar's Roil

Artifact (4)

• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Caravan Vigil
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Frenzied Tilling
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Vengeance

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Nissa, Worldwaker

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Cloudthresher
• 1x Groundbreaker
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Eyes of the Wisent

Instant (2)

• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Momentous Fall

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Bloodbriar
• 1x Brighthearth Banneret
• 1x Embodiment of Fury
• 1x Embodiment of Insight
• 1x Hound of Griselbrand
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Mana
• 1x Petrified Wood-Kin
• 1x Phytotitan
• 1x Rakka Mar
• 1x Rubblehulk
• 1x Silvos, Rogue Elemental
• 1x Thorn Elemental
• 1x Thornling
• 1x Vigor
• 1x War Elemental

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Journey of Discovery
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rupture
• 1x Summer Bloom

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Instant (1)

• 1x Constant Mists

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Retreat to Valakut
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Artifact (2)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Sword of the Animist

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First attempt at Omnath, Locus of Rage EDH deck. Ramp, landfall, generate elementals, sac elementals.

Initial thoughts Show

Whittling down potential card pool and taking suggestions. I want this to be a "budget" deck so that probably means I'll end up spending a couple hundred dollars on it but I'd like to try to keep the cost down as long as possible until I inevitably cave.

I guess now that I'm cutting cards from contention I should figure out what I'm prioritizing. Obviously elementals are key, as is the ability to drop multiple lands/turn, as well as sac outlets. The ideal card would probably be something like a 5/5 elemental that generates X 1/1 elementals and also allows you to sacrifice them somehow while also letting you play an additional land/turn. And it also lets you draw.

I probably want some removal and pump spells too.

I'm going to run a few things like Bane of Progress strictly as a counter to one of my brother's decks.

Secondary initial thoughts Show

I haven't ordered any of these cards (although I have some crucial things like Omnath already, which motivated me to make this deck) and I've just been playing with it a bit on here. It's possible I may have too much ramp and I think I could also cut some lands. I often find myself with like 8 lands on turn 5 and nothing in my hand and I'm just hoping for draw. I have a lot of elemental token generation but I also find myself not playing creatures until turn 3 or 4 pretty frequently, so I also kind of want to add more creatures. It's pretty satisfying when it works though.

Things I generally don't like so far:

• Blighted Woodland (I hate all the crappy lands - I just really don't want to spend so much; Terramorphic Expanse is fine, at least)
• Constant Mists
• Evolutionary Leap
• Summer Bloom seems like something I would only want in my opening hand if I had five or six lands in it too. I understand it can be really great with landfall later on but I don't feel like I have enough draw to play it late with three extra lands in hand
• Sylvan Scrying

Things I do like:

• Fertilid
• Ghost Town is so awesome with landfall
• Nissa, Vastwood Seer   + Chandra, Torch of Defiance + Courser of Kruphix
• Skyshroud Ranger
• Sylvan Scrying, somehow
• Undergrowth Champion
• Young Pyromancer

Another update Show

Still working on getting to 100. Contrary to my previous update, I cut the Pyromancer and probably a couple of other things I previously liked and added some other shit. It's difficult cutting some things when their effects are so similar (like Animist's Awakening and Boundless Realms, although I think I want to keep both of those [but the Awakening sometimes gives me pause]; a better example is Skyshroud Ranger and Walking Atlas, and there's Sakura-Tribe Scout as well. I think in this case I cut the Ranger and the Atlas and add the Scout because it has no sorcery-speed limitation and it costs 1). This is probably due to me being bad at Magic.

I still really like the planeswalkers (especially Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ) and the ramp/land level seems more stable and it's pretty sweet dropping Omnath on turn four or five. I essentially only want to win by dropping eight lands and generating eight 5/5 elementals or doing that and then sacrificing them all.

Things I probably want to deal with in a sideboard: control, flying, artifacts, other things. I dunno what else - I only ever play Commander against like three people.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WUB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 5 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.77
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Elemental 1/1 R w/ Haste, Elemental 2/2 G, Elemental 4/4 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Elemental X/X G, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Lightning Rager, Plant 0/1 G