Xenagos EDH

Commander / EDH Aggro Competitive Multiplayer Ramp RG (Gruul) Zoo

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Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 10x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass  ^Flip
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Extra Damage (11)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Fiery Emancipation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass  ^Flip

Tutor (6)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Hand Size (2)

• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Thought Vessel

Evasive Threat (18)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Quartzwood Crasher
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Silvos, Rogue Elemental
• 1x Terra Stomper
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Draw (12)

• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x The Great Henge

Extra Combat (7)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x World at War

Nonevasive Threat (3)

• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Terastodon

Filtering (3)

• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip
• 1x Vivien's Arkbow

Commander (1)

Ramp (18)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Removal (11)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Protection (3)

• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

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Turns 1-3

Ramp. Set up cheap utility permanents.

Turn 4

Cast Xenagos.

Turn 5

Play a big creature and start swinging.

Turn 6+

Keep dropping big creatures as your old ones get removed. Start playing the more expensive utility permanents. Keep some mana open for removal. Try to keep Xenagos below the devotion threshold to dodge creature removal.

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Other tips:

Mulligan very aggressively. Pretty much anything that isn't land or ramp should get pitched. Typically, you're aiming for one ramp card and 3 lands in your opening hand.

Favor green-producing mana sources over red-producing mana sources during the early game. You'll typically want about 4 red mana sources total.

Picking the most threatening opponent and killing them quickly is extremely important. If anyone is playing blue you'll probably want to focus on killing them before they get set up.

Your creatures are going to get destroyed. It's inevitable. It's going to happen a lot. Unless they have some synergy with each other (e.g. Atarka, World Render and Scourge of the Throne) you should avoid playing more than one threat at any given time. If you run out of threats you are probably going to lose. Always have a backup creature ready in your hand. Cards like Greater Good are excellent for drawing into new threats the when your old one gets destroyed. In fact, Greater Good is probably the best card in this deck.

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Suggestions are very welcome. I'm always looking for ways to improve consistency and overall synergy.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.34
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Dinosaur Beast X/X G, Elephant 3/3 G, Treasure
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