Bacon with a Side of Blightsteel. (Ilharg EDH)

Commander / EDH* Aggro Casual Mono-Red

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Creature (30)

• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Arni Metalbrow
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Crater Hellion
• 1x Delina, Wild Mage
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Karlach, Fury of Avernus
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Terror of Mount Velus
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Thundermare
• 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1x Tyrant of Discord

Artifact (17)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Confusion in the Ranks
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Mirror March
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Instant (4)

• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Homeward Path
• 25x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x War Room

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

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Why Ilharg?

1: Who could possibly say "no" to the thought of Sneak Attack on a stick, or the thought of being able to serve your opponents a Bacon-and-Blightsteel knuckle sandwich as early as turn 2 or 3?

2: Once Ilharg is out, the only real ways to remove him from the battlefield are via cards like Darksteel Mutation or Terminus. Even when he is exiled or removed, the fact that he's only the third card from the top means that I can simply recast him in 3 turns, all while avoiding the commander tax.

3: He just makes my inner Timmy make happy monkey noises when I cast him.

So, the main objective of this deck is pretty straightforward: Ramp out Ilharg, the Raze-Boar ASAP, preferably with haste-givers like Generator Servant or Hall of the Bandit Lord (and maybe with either Cavern of Souls or Red Elemental Blast if your opponents are running blue), swing with Ilharg, and crap out either:

1: A creature with an ETB effect (Spawn of Thraxes, Meteor Golem, Combustible Gearhulk, Duplicant, etc.),

2: A creature with a combat damage effect (Balefire Dragon, Steel Hellkite, Hellkite Tyrant, etc.),

3: A creature that can boost Ilharg's damage output for the attack (Angrath's Marauders, Avatar of Slaughter, Terror of Mount Velus, etc.)

4: One of the combo pieces for Aggravated Assault + Neheb, the Eternal or Godo, Bandit Warlord + Helm of the Host ,

or 5: Just a good old-fashioned, Timmy-style, game-ending beatstick (Blightsteel Colossus, Malignus).

If Ilharg's cost gets too unmanageable, Sneak Attack, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, and Feldon of the Third Path can serve in his absence.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 months
Key combos	Aggravated Assault + Neheb, the Eternal Godo, Bandit Warlord + Helm of the Host
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.38
Tokens	Copy Clone, Myr 1/1 C, Treasure