Who Doesn't Love Revels?

Commander / EDH* RG (Gruul)

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Land (37)

• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 9x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Card Advantage (7)

• 1x Domri Rade
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sylvan Library

Ramp (19)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Champion of Rhonas
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent
• 1x Zhur-Taa Druid

Targetted Removal (8)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Destructive Revelry
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim

Tutor (5)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Card Selection (1)

• 1x Abundance

Commander (1)

Win Condition (17)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Grunn, the Lonely King
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mage Slayer
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Worldspine Wurm

Board Wipe (2)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Support (2)

• 1x Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1x Blood Mist

Protection (1)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

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This is a Leeroy Jenkins style deck (the author endorses comforting oneself with chicken if the strategy doesn't work out).

The win-cons are as follows:

• Insurrection. Often in the late game, life totals will be small and the creatures will be big. Take advantage of that! Another similar effect is Molten Primordial, which can have an impact which ranges from taking one creature and not doing much else all the way up to killing one or more players (e.g. stealing one player's Saskia the Unyieldling, while also stealing another player's Emrakul, the Promised End). These win-cons aren't specific to this deck, but they're certainly possibilities.
• Using Xenagos, God of Revels, beef up a creature so that it has enough power to eat an opponent in one gulp. Or two gulps, if it has double strike. Examples of ways to do this are Atarka, World Render, Hydra Omnivore, Malignus, Grunn, the Lonely King or Worldspine Wurm, potentially backed up by use of Berserk, Berserkers' Onslaught, Blood Mist, Kessig Wolf Run, Gratuitous Violence, Rogue's Passage, or Skarrg, the Rage Pits. Note that we should't necessarily aim to make Xenagos, God of Revels into a creature, since he is harder to remove as an enchantment.
• Mage Slayer does what it says on the tin.
• Chandra's Ignition can blow everyone up immediately after using Xenagos to charge up a Grunn, the Lonely King, Malignus, etc.

In these colours, the deck needs to work hard for card draw and efficiency. The following provide the gas for the deck:

• Zendikar Resurgent and Lifecrafter's Bestiary are two recently printed cards that are perfect for decks with ramp and creatures. You can get a fairly explosive cantrip going off Zendikar Resurgent, if you're lucky. Hunter's Prowess is great for this deck's strategy.
• Either one of Sylvan Library or Abundance in play make for great hand fixing and/or filling. If you manage to get both out at once then, since Abundance puts cards into your hand. This gets around the Library's "choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn", thus allowing you to net three cards per turn for free.

To discuss the deck's somewhat thin removal package:

• Krosan Grip is amazing for getting rid of a threatening artifact or enchantment. If an opponent is sitting on a Nevinyrral's Disk, and you don't want it to be activated, then this totally saves you and there's nothing they can do about it.
• Red struggles to find removal which is not based on damage. Enter Chaos Warp.
• Berserk is wonderful, because not only can it be used to make your creatures huge in a last-ditch effort to kill someone, but also because it can be used on an opponent's creatures (preferably their commander) once they have attacked an opponent. This can sometimes take out both an opponent and a threatening creature for !
• Beast Within is a classic all-rounder in green. You don't care about them having a 3/3 beast when you are swinging for 20+ damage with a single creature.
• Wasteland and Strip Mine are absolutely necessary for dealing with an opponent's Maze of Ith, or their Homeward Path (if you are about to cast Insurrection).

"The gods of Theros are born of the expectations and beliefs of mortals. If I have found a godhood, what does that say about their true desires?"
—Xenagos, god of revels

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.86
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Domri Rade, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample
Folders	EDH Decks