Elixir of Immortality for a restart

Also all i need is a Witchbane Orb effect or a Platinum Angel and i win. so through some big creatures in. Hornet Queen , Prismatic Omen and Seismic Assault are pointless here. through in some mana rocks and mana multipliers Mana Reflection and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger cto make sure you got get mana screwed while beating face with borborygymos.

I am considering Elixir of Immortality , both the elixir and the eldrazi have their pros and cons for graveyard shuffling.

If someone plays a Platinum Angel all I have to do is throw a couple lands at it and proceed as normal.

As for Witchbane Orb or other hexproof/shroud effects I can either just beat down with Borborygmos or side in some cheap artifact or enchantment hate. I have never had any of those effects played against me so I don't think it's a huge problem.

Hornet Queen is there so I don't get beaten down by fliers. Prismatic Omen both mana fixes and allows all my forests and non basics to trigger Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle . Seismic Assault is a backup plan if Borborygmos gets tucked or too expensive to cast.

I will probably add a couple mana doubelers

Terravore would probably be good in here

I vote bump the Elixir of Immortality since you have Loaming Shaman and get Lodestone Bauble since that is BORBORYGMOS's best friend.

I'd also consider Anger since he works with both BORBORYGMOS as possibly milling it and future haste outlet for him to work his magic digging through your library.

Also, Rings of Brighthearth , like, for SERIALS. Even that new equipment in gatecrash, the name escapes me but it's some bracer that copies the activated ability of equipped creature.

Even damage doublers like Furnace of Rath or Gratuitous Violence would be ballin'.

Maybe even a Crystal Ball ? But I've used it in the past and it hasn't done much.

I'm not a big fan of Terravore because he is useless after a Creeping Renaissance , card:Praetor's Counsel or any other time I have no lands in my graveyard. And even if I do have a lot of lands in my graveyard he's just a big dumb beater.

I agree, I got rid of the Elixir of Immortality so far I've found that I can kill everyone well before I run out of cards in my library. Anger has some good synergy but he didn't make the cut because I don't really need to attack with Borby and I don't have any other creatures that want to attack. Rings could be good but I would run the bracers over it because they copy for free. Furnace of Rath is in there.

Look, I gotta say one thing. After you play Borgy, drop Storm Cauldron . Basically a win con after you've been throwing out so many lands, and it screws up your opponents tempo very quickly. Drop extra land, float a ton of mana, bounce all your lands, throw 42+ damage at somebodies face.

Why not Howling Mine , Font of Mythos , and Temple Bell ? The more cards in your hand, the more likely you are to have lands to throw at people.

Other fun cards to play: Reforge the Soul , Wheel of Fate , Wheel of Fortune , card:Teferi's Puzzle Box and Grafted Skullcap .

xDarkArmed: I understand how Storm Cauldron could be a win con but it just seems entirely too risky for me.

tmloyd: Symmetrical draw effects can be awesome in decks that can abuse them (like my Niv-Mizzet deck) but in this deck I will be more likely to draw land while my opponent draws dangerous spells. Besides, land searching effects are cheap and I should have plenty of mana floating around.

+1 just for the explanation haha

Honestly I have been testing out a deck very similar to yours but have found Snake Umbra , Groundskeeper , Keen Sense to be extremely helpful. especially the card drawing, using Illusionist's Bracers with card drawing is almost a win con in itself a lot of the time.

Yo, check it son:

You got Abundance in here already right?

So next time you draw a card you can choose land or non-land right?

You put that Snake Umbra or Keen Sense in here and SLAP that junk on Borborygmos Enraged POST HASTE and OH SNAP, I CAN THROW LAND AND DRAW THEM AGAIN!

THORW ALL THE LAND!

THROW TWICE AS MANY LAND WITH Illusionist's Bracers !

I just saw Library of Leng in conjunction with this and almost fell out of my seat, mostly because there were so many lands being thrown in my face. Also, I was searching through and found an Elfhame Sanctuary that may or may not make the cut.

Thanks for the comment but Library of Leng doesn't work how you think it works. Discarding lands for Borborygmos is paying a cost for an ability, not a spell or effect. The ruling from the gatherer says "You can't use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren't effects."

Also Elfhame Sanctuary just seems like a worse Abundance

I run an almost identical deck to this, however, I have a bit more artifact and enchantment hate. Have you considered using something like Sword of Kaldra in your deck. it offers a chance for each tossed land to essentially become a Swords to Plowshares

Borborygmos Enraged is such a fun General. I think though that you should make him hit the ground running with Hall of the Bandit Lord and Anger . Some of the cards that I personally think should come out of the maybe board is Hall of the Bandit Lord and Anger ( you want him to do as much damage as possible, especially once he hits play), Keen Sense and Snake Umbra (In my Borborygmos deck there's actually 70 lands, so chances are better with combo-ing off), Knollspine Dragon (Knollspine Dragon when you hit one opponent for 30+ damage and play this guy draw an additional 30+ cards and start throwing cards as if you be a crazy MADMAN!!!.) , Strip Mine (helps against lands such as Maze of Ith and Mystifying Maze )

So now here's some cards that I think should be in this deck.

Druidic Satchel , Walking Atlas , and Summer Bloom Why? Because their abilities are reusable (not including Summer Bloom of course) and we want Borborygmos Enraged on the field ASAP!

Next part are lands which I think are very helpful to Borborygmos

Cavern of Souls - This land saves your general from counters like Spell Crumple . We both know how much it sucks to lose Borborygmos

Ancient Tomb , Urza's Tower , Urza's Power Plant , and Urza's Mine - You do have Scapeshift to pull them out and Crucible of Worlds and Life from the Loam to get it out of your graveyard.-Plus it will help you cast your Borborygmos more often.

Maze of Ith and Mystifying Maze - These are good cards that can stop Borborygmos on his tracks, these wouldn't hurt to have in your deck because it forces your opponents to go after one another especially if you have them open. Technically, you do have the cards already to have 3 Maze of Ith (Vesuva and Thespian's Stage ) in one deck. Lol.

How to stop those pesky cards- you will need Strip Mine , Ghost Quarter , and Tectonic Edge .

Next are the cards that I would probably take out.

• Chain Reaction and Blasphemous Act -You're not a control deck, there's no need to board wipe, especially in this singleton format. You're better off focusing on mana ramp.

• Faithless Looting - This card just seems a bit off, I know it's like digging for cards, but you always need to have leave other cards open for that discard if you want to make a switch. I think it can be problematic holding on to this card especially if you want to fling as much lands as possible to your opponents face.

• Staff of Nin and Venser's Journal - Staff of Nin is a great card, but I know this will be one of those first to go targets. You're better with on the spot draw because you're chances of getting those cards are then and now. Venser's Journal is just too slow and when Borborygmos hits the ground, you would usually throw those lands to your opponent's face when they try to get rid of the beloved Borborygmos. :D

Ok this part is totally up to you, but I would take them out.

• Lightning Greaves , Swiftfoot Boots , and Asceticism - Why? because although it, provides that haste and spell protection, it gives me a reason to start killing someone and throwing all my lands in hand to their face. That's why I would rather have Anger and Hall of the Bandit Lord . Asceticism is good, but board wipes with cannot regenerate, make it's second ability useless. I'd rather use Cauldron of Souls .

So that's my input, hope it was helpful :D

Woah, lots of suggestions.

rikufodder: Yeah I don't really have any artifact or enchantment destruction because I wanted to keep it focused on the lands. If I do find that I need some I could easily toss in a Hull Breach or Acidic Slime . And no I have never considered Sword of Kaldra but I certainly am now. It's a bit expensive to cast and equip but it seems like it would be really good once you did.

onigirumo: Hall of the Bandit Lord is definitely going in as soon as I can trade for one. Anger got cut because Borborygmos is the only creature that I actually want to be attacking with, the rest are just land fetchers/chump blockers that wouldn't really benefit from haste.

I tried Druidic Satchel at one point but I cut it when it put a cycling land directly onto the battlefield when I really needed it in my hand or graveyard to start dredging Life from the Loam . Walking Atlas and Summer Bloom could be good though.

Cavern of Souls , Maze of Ith , Strip Mine , etc are not in there simply because they are too expensive to buy. If I can ever trade for them though they can go in.

The Urzatron just seems too unreliable in a singleton format, sure I can pull them out with Scapeshift but I'd rather do a ton of damage with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and mountains off Scapeshift .

I'm still considering Keen Sense and Snake Umbra though.

And now to defend my card choices.

I would have to disagree with you and say that this IS a control deck, sure it's not traditional control but it's certainly not aggro. Once you have Borborygmos out and a hand full of lands you have incredible control over the field, if anybody tries to do anything to hurt you you can kill them and everything they love at instant speed. The sweepers are there to keep you alive until then since aside from Borborygmos I don't have any creatures bigger than a 2/2.

Faithless Looting is there to help me find my wincons Creeping Renaissance and Life from the Loam , both of which want lands in the graveyard and can be used from the graveyard so the discarding isn't a huge drawback.

Staff of Nin draws me cards and the more cards I draw the more land I have. It also helps in killing 1, 4, 7 toughness creatures without having to waste an extra land.

Venser's Journal lets me hold on to a huge grip of land which lets me keep control of the board. Sure Reliquary Tower is better and fits the theme but I like having some redundancy.

After what you said about Hall of the Bandit Lord and Anger I thought you would be all about Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots , they give the big man haste AND protection.

And for Asceticism you can regenerate from board wipes so it gives better protection than Cauldron of Souls as long as you keep the mana open to regen.

Also how is 70 land working out for you? I've been thinking of adding more land because by the end of long games I completely run out of basic lands in my library.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Wouldn't the urza lands be mountains anyway if you have Prismatic Omen in play?

ok, here are some of the cards that I run, that I may have forgotten to mention or aren't on your list.

Dragon Breath , Rites of Spring , Budoka Gardener , Genesis Wave , Krosan Tusker , Fa'adiyah Seer , Lightning Bolt , Far Wanderings , Explore , Overblaze , Sprouting Vines , Rites of Flourishing

ok, so going down that list

Dragon Breath When in your hand you can cast it on Borborygmos to give it haste if you have the money. If it's in your graveyard it has the same affect like Anger . The reason why I do not like the Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots is because they are usually the first ones to go On top of that I do not run recursion for the greaves and the boots. I do however run land recursion as so does yourself to get Hall of the Bandit Lord back and with Dragon Breath it recurs on its own once Broborygmos hits play. If you have Anger you do not need to attack because most opponents will probably not block him. So you can use Anger as a blocker and a deterrent from enemies on the ground. When Borborygmos hits play and Anger is by his side fling a land at him to give Borborygmos haste.

Rites of Spring this is just my way of putting Anger and Dragon Breath into the graveyard while also thinning out my deck and also refilling my hand with lands to fling.

Knollspine Dragon you should really consider putting this guy in the deck, every time I play him, it's usually another win condition to knockout multiple opponents.

Budoka Gardener and Explore I like these card because of the similar affect it has with Walking Atlas . The faster I can get lands down to get Borborygmos in play the more faster I can get to pummeling someone's face.

Genesis Wave I usually use this as another form of mana ramp, but I can tell you won't be a big fan because you're afraid to put your cycling lands into the battlefield. You shouldn't be afraid of that because you run Harrow , Scapeshift , and Gruul Turf .

Krosan Tusker I like this card because it can refill you hand with it's cycling and land searching ability. The cycling ability work well with Life of the Loam as you already know, but this time you get another land at the same time.

Fa'adiyah Seer I like the draw affect a lot, especially that I run 70 lands. If I hit Anger or Dragon Breath that's a win win because you don't have to keep it in your hand.

Lightning Bolt Now this is just my shits and giggles because no one will expect it. I have killed with this 2x now because the way I play Borborygmos is that I will keep them in kill range1-3 life and make them my B%$# or slave. Now They help me win or they sit out for the next game. Ive had some of them try to be sneak with split second cards, but that Lightning Bolt is still in hand for the kill. After they die by it[ they are like who the F%$ maindecks Lightning Bolt !?!?!

Far Wanderings it's just an awesome mana ramp, especially for Borborygmos

Overblaze one time Furnace of Rath and they never see it coming!!!

Sprouting Vines just a way to reload your hand again

Rites of Flourishing extra card and extra land drop. with 70 lands I will be winning that race in the long run.

And the 70 lands does work out pretty well, I usually win more than half of my games playing him. 70 lands gives me the consistency, because I rely only on getting Borborygmos on getting the job done.

the reason why i don't like Venser's Journal is because it's too expensive and very much unneeded. I rather just fling my excess lands to someone's face.

greaves and boots, they are usually the first that go because they are afraid of our general.

asteticism and cauldron, I will still prefer cauldron over the asteticism just because it's free to activate., but I do not run any of those because it will just be another first target for my opponents to pick off.

When it comes down to it is just preference, but I really like my land consistency, because i can still play Borborygmos even when he gets up to like 20 casting cost.

I'll try to post up my build later when I have more time. Hope this helps.

Here's my Borborygmos Enraged Edh

EAT YOUR VEGGIES!!! EDH

Groundskeeper I saw someone mention it earlier, but thought I would ping it again. It looks amazing for this deck! Pitch a land, pay two then pitch it again!

You have inspired me to retake the Gruul banner with this guy. Nice build, only thing i can recommend is maybe a Cavern of Souls ? Borbo is pretty expensive and when playing against Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind , Thraximundar , Sen Triplets and the like it assures you won't end up having to pay 14 mana just to finally use your commander XD.

Glad I could help. Yes Cavern of Souls would help but it's fairly expensive and not a very high priority for me. So until I can trade for one I find that waiting until the blue player is tapped out works just as well.