Xenagos, God of Smash

Commander / EDH

Maimed_Dan

Beater (23)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Capricious Efreet
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Guild Feud
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Rapacious One
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Sunder Shaman
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Vorapede
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Ramp (16)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scorned Villager  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Wild Growth

Land (34)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 9x Forest
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Removal (12)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Capricious Efreet
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Sunder Shaman

Finisher (6)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Temur Battle Rage

Commander (1)

Draw/Engine (20)

• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Feed the Pack
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Guild Feud
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Rapacious One
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Traverse the Outlands

Defense (6)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Reverberate

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Xenagos in 5 simple steps:

Step 1: Ramp.

Step 2: Play Xenagos, probably on turn 3 or 4.

Step 3: Play Scary Monster and attack. Repeat until one survives to your next turn.

Step 4: Play a spell that has increased effect based off power or damage dealt. This probably means you draw 12+ cards.

Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 until your opponents are dead. Damage doublers will make this faster.

The biggest vulnerability for this deck is recurring removal - Attrition , Parallax Wave , Dictate of Erebos . Counterspells can slow it down a little, hence the Red counterspells.

This is probably my most competitive deck while still being fun - it works very reliably, and very fast. It doesn't run a lot of monsters above 6 CMC because you want to be able to put one down the turn after Xenagos - there are only 3 exceptions, all at 7 CMC with effects too good to pass up.

Will add Carnage Tyrant when Standard rotates. Probably cutting Savage Ventmaw - the body is too small, and the mana is only useful if I have a draw spell. You don't want to play all your heavies out at once.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.06
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Human 2/2 G, Wolf 2/2 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	Xenagos, God of Revels