Elemental RAAAAAGE

Commander / EDH Competitive Elementals Landfall Ramp RG (Gruul) Theme/Gimmick

Antonius_Cleus

Land (38)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Ghost Town
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Highland Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 13x Snow-Covered Forest
• 8x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fiery Emancipation
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Fortitude
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Valakut Exploration
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dire-Strain Rampage
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Roiling Regrowth

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Zuran Orb

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Ancient Greenwarden
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Decimator of the Provinces
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Living Twister
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth

---

Maybeboard

Land (2)

• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Prismatic Vista

---

This has been my favorite deck for a while, and Archidekt has the list with various changes I'm testing. After a few revisions, this is the list I have landed on and what I have had the most fun with. I hope anyone here that finds this deck can have some fun with it too :)

The main goal of this deck is simple; make a crap ton of elementals and then blow everyone up. The way we do that is by getting Omnath, Locus of Rage out as fast as possible with our absurd amount of ramp spells, then we just continue to ramp and make elementals to our heart's desire. Once we have a plethora of elementals, all we need to do is smack our opponent's faces in, or we can suicide all of them and Lightning Bolt everyone to oblivion with Omnath's death triggers.

Ramp:

• Extra Land drops:
• Exploration
• Burgeoning
• Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• Oracle of Mul Daya
• Extra Mana:
• Lotus Cobra
• Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• Sol Ring
• Arcane Signet
• Tireless Provisioner
• Just More Lands:
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Farseek
• Three Visits
• Rampant Growth
• Nature's Lore
• Nissa's Pilgrimage
• Kodama's Reach
• Cultivate
• Harrow
• Roiling Regrowth
• Dire-Strain Rampage
• Far Wanderings
• Skyshroud Claim
• Migration Path

Card Advantage:

• Rishkar's Expertise
• Elemental Bond
• Shamanic Revelation
• Garruk's Uprising
• Momentous Fall
• Horn of Greed
• Nissa, Sage Animist  
• Courser of Kruphix
• Oracle of Mul Daya

Fetches/Tutors:

• Crop Rotation
• Sylvan Scrying
• Uncage the Menagerie
• Green Sun's Zenith

Fetchland Extortion/Land Recursion:

• Titania, Protector of Argoth
• Crucible of Worlds
• Ramunap Excavator
• Ancient Greenwarden

Multi-landfall Abuse:

• Living Twister
• Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• Zuran Orb or Sylvan Safekeeper with Land Recursion
• Gruul Turf and/or Ghost Town

Removal/Burn:

• Vandalblast
• Blasphemous Act
• Rolling Earthquake
• Arcbond
• Beast Within
• Goblin Bombardment
• Where Ancients Tread
• Warstorm Surge
• Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Protection:

• Sylvan Safekeeper
• Fortitude
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Lightning Greaves
• Deflecting Swat

Key Combos/Cards:

• Burgeoning + Living Twister or Mina and Denn, Wildborn --- Twister is an insane card in this deck, enabling repeated land drops in the late game and even adds utility of spot removal for smaller creatures. With Burgeoning in play, just having 1 {G} available means any land your opponents play is another threat to them. With Lotus Cobra, you can even just use him on your turn to net mana for each land drop, creating some fun ramp plays.
• Ancient Greenwarden + Omnath, Locus of Rage --- Greenwarden is huge for this deck, encouraging our angry boi to make even more 5/5's and allowing for stupid shenanigans with our fetch lands. He is an All-Star
• Goblin Bombardment + Omnath, Locus of Rage --- Another huge card in this deck, this allows for fun plays with the elementals we create, being able to get around various blockades or just getting in that last little bit of damage to finish off an opponent. Also helps out against various Mind Control shenanigans so your opponents can't take advantage of your own creatures
• Fetchlands (eg. Fabled Passage or Wooded Foothills) --- These are fantastic in the deck. With effects like Crucible of Worlds and a few extra land drops, these become insane Landfall and ramp enablers, not to mention the added benefit of Titania, Protector of Argoth getting us even MORE elementals when we use them
• Scapeshift + Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle --- one card combo, in the late game it can be a really good finisher that's difficult to deal with, and even without Valakut, Scapeshift just makes a ton of elementals out of nowhere.

Finishing the Game:

• Once you get a sufficient amount of 5/5's, you have a few different options. The first one is obviously just smacking face, which does tend to be efficient. The second option is wiping your elementals off the board and using Omnath, Locus of Rage's death triggers to Lightning Bolt everyone in the face. Arcbond, Blasphemous Act, or Rolling Earthquake are good boardwipes that also serve as good ways to kill off our elementals, and Goblin Bombardment is a fantastic option against people taking control of our board, or just sacrificing our stuff to it for those death triggers. The third option is something that probably won't come up too often, but Shaman of Forgotten Ways is also a great card for taking care of pesky life totals that have gone far out of reach.

Thoughts On Additions

Right now I am looking at a few different options to make the deck a bit more consistent, as well as things I want to try when I have access to said cards:

• Gratuitous Violence ----- The finishing power of Fiery Emancipation is insane, and I'm all for having an extra copy for redundancy sake, I'm not sure what I would cut for this though
• Life from the Loam ----- more Fetchland triggers? Sure! Need a copy first
• Druid Class ----- This is another land drop, with lifegain, with finisher potential.
• Imperial Recruiter ----- This card can fetch almost any of my creatures in this deck, each of them being increasingly relevant as the game goes on.
• Extraplanar Lens ----- By switching my forests to snow-covered forests, this guy doubles my mana nearly for no downside. Not everyone runs snow-covered lands so it makes it more likely for me to be the only one benefitting from this effect, not to mention how it only costs {3} instead of most other mana-doubling effects
• Chandra, Acolyte of Flame ----- She makes Elementals the Sacrifice instead of exile, so free lightning bolts, and she allows me to Flashback ramp spells from my graveyard which is huge.
• Nissa, Who Shakes the World ----- My Forest tap for an additional {G}, INCLUDING the dual lands like Stomping Ground and Sheltered Thicket, which is great. She can also turn my lands into lightning bolts which is an awesome use for my lands after I've pulled most of them out.
• Chord of Calling ----- Tutor is good. Me like Tutor
• Worldly Tutor ----- Also tutor. Cheap on the mana-side.
• Steely Resolve ----- Shroud for all elementals is pretty good for me. I'm not worried about giving other people Shroud seeing as it can be more of a hinderance sometimes.
• Augur of Autumn ----- It's another copy of Courser of Kruphix. Redundancy is great, especially when it involves Library manipulation. I don't even really care about the Coven ability, especially since I'm not going to be triggering it. Ever.
• Purphoros, God of the Forge ----- Extra damage for my elementals entering? Sure! Also an expensive firebreathing ability that can help with attacks
• Amulet of Vigor ----- Since I have Scapeshift in here, I really want a copy of this now. Also this can help against Blind Obedience effects quite nicely. Also means my ramps spell ALL come in untapped. I do have an issue of not knowing what to cut for it though...
• Fervor/Concordant Crossroads ----- More Haste enablers are great, I want 1 more haste enabler to go with Fires of Yavimaya for slight redundancy
• Perilous Forays ----- Yet another reason for Amulet of Vigor. Ends up becoming a combo to fetch out every Basic in the deck. Not sure how much I like this one on a personal level though, seeing as it doesn't add to the gameplan we have going on. I'd love to hear more thoughts on this one!
• Wayward Swordtooth ----- Extra land drop, not much more to say, lol. I'm not worried about it not being able to attack/block since Omnath's army will do that
• Ashnod's Altar ----- Great sac outlet, especially good for casting more ramp spells when Omnath is out
• Into the North ----- just found this one, It's like Rampant Growth but specifically for snow lands. gives me another reason to add snow forests/mountains in here so I can use Extraplanar Lans. Also gives another reason to add Highland Forest back in which is nice to have since I added Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• Reap and Sow ----- Searches for a Land, not just a basic, and it also can be used as removal if I need it
• Zendikar's Roil ----- Not the best fit in the deck currently, however, if I start leaning more into Warstorm Surge effects and start relying less on Omnath, I can see this coming in easily.

Thoughts on Cuts

• Uncage the Menagerie ----- Good card, just slow. I want to get more tutors though so once I get a few more I'll switch this one out. It does provide a ton of value though, especially if I add 1 or 2 more {2} drops. This is one I'm on the fence about though so I might not even cut it... I usually end up tutoring for X={3} and getting 3 creatures (almost of my choice, most of the creatures are {3} cost) is great value
• Shaman of Forgotten Ways ----- haven't encountered many lifegain decks recently, I'm testing a 1-1 switch for Springbloom Druid

Please feel free to leave an Upvote and any suggestions you may have for me! I would love to make this a semi-competitive deck. I also have this deck on Archidekt with the cards I am testing out. Anything that I can't get right now I will put in the Maybeboard so I can find a time to get them and test them out. Thanks for stopping by!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Elemental 5/3 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Food, Treasure
Folders	c, Want, Chase's Decks, deck, Misc, Cool Decks