Xenagos and his hitmen

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Double strike Haste Infect Multiplayer RG (Gruul)

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Ramp (17)

• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Monster Manual
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Quirion Explorer
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Wild Growth

Draw (9)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Protection (5)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Dense Foliage
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Boardwipe (2)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Vandalblast

Land (32)

• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 14x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Wooded Foothills

ExtraDamage (10)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Blood Mist
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mage Slayer
• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Unnatural Growth

SingleTargetRemoval (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Song of the Dryads

Commander (1)

Fatty (11)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Living Hive
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Rapacious One
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Tutor (6)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Recursion (3)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Mimic Vat

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Power level 7

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Deck Tech

You like to hit your opponents with a hasty fatty and double or even quadrupple its power? Then look no further. This EDH deck is all about the one shooters that kill your opponents out of nowhere.

Early Game

Mulligan into a hand with ramp and card draw or at least one big dumb creature. Ramp and get as many lands out as possible. Karametra's Acolyte is nuts, I usually get 5-7 mana from of her. Play your commander as soon as possible before playing a big creature, because Xenagos, God of Revels can give one creature haste.

Mid-Game

Play a big one and hit one opponent at a time, with Xenagos's +x/+x ability. Usually you don't want Xenagos to become a creature, since indestructible creatures are easier to deal with than indestructible enchantments.

You are vulnerable against boardwipes and single target removal. This deck hates Cyclonic Rift, therefore watch out if the suspicious {6}{U} is open. Calm down the blue player before you strike, e.g. with an alliance and kill him later with infect. Don't play all the big dummies at once only because you can. Always keep a backup fatty in your hand. Especially the infect creatures should be sandbagged for the grand finale. Xenagos will boost only one creature and if you can play another big one after somebody boardwiped, you are ahead because Xenagos survives most boardwipes.

If you successfully connected with Rapacious One or Living Hive you are open for plan B: Skullclamp like there is no tomorrow or Pathbreaker Ibex to rush your opponents to death with 10x 30/30 tramplers.

This deck has a major drawback: usually your opponent team up against you. And they should, because you can easily cast and swing with a hasty 20/20 infect trampler. My best practice is to be political: either team up with somebody that is on the control/combo plan against the player who goes wide and can block for days or roll a dice to choose who you are going to hit. The dice will give you the best alibi and nobody will scream for vengeance. Don't throw the dice if deathtouch creatures are on the board.

Use your single target removal only for creatures like Magus of the Moat that will screw up your game plan.

Decimate is a terrible card, but we have a problem if our opponents have Maze of Ith like effects. Therefore, we need land destruction that is not far off from our core plan. Strip Mine is in the 99 for the same reason.

End-Game

Go out in a final blow with Chandra's Ignition if your opponents are in lethal range. Dealing 10-16 damage to each opponent in the late game will usually do the trick. Especially if this damage is infect damage :)

The more common alternative is to chain multiple combat phases together. Aggravated Assault, Seize the Day, Savage Beating and Scourge of the Throne give you the chance to kill 2-3 opponents at once.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.94
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Insect 1/1 G, On an Adventure, Wurm 6/6 G