Keruga, the Macrosage

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Hippo

Companion — Your starting deck must only contain cards with converted mana cost/mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (You may reveal this card from outside the game before you start and declare it as your companion. If you do, your deck must follow the companion's restrictions. You may pay {3} to put this companion from your sideboard to your hand at any time you could cast a sorcery. This action can't be interacted with or countered. You may only choose one companion for your deck before the start of each round.)

When this enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (37)

Austin_Smith_of_Cards on I Have the Power!

3 months ago

Nice list, looks like a solid Temur build

I do think the average CMC of the deck is a little high though; I would try to cut some 3 and 4 drops and push up the 1s and 2s to make the opening turns more consistent. Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Goblin Anarchomancer, Sol Ring would go a long way to help start getting to be able to play the good stuff faster.

Alternatively, you could swing the other route, cut out all the 1-2 drops from the deck, and make this a Keruga, the Macrosage companion list, which turns into additional card advantage from the command zone.

Flarhoon13 on Imoti and the Dino Hippo--Explosive Fatties

7 months ago

Oct 18 Imoti and the Dino Hippo win. Started by discarding to hand size twice. Jared's Supreme Verdict saved me. I got out Regal Behemoth and untapped with it. I recast Imoti and I think there was another turn cycle before I was able to keep the crown of the monarch  and cast Wild Pair then Keruga, the Macrosage, putting Palinchron into play from my library. By the way, the "nerf" to companions makes this deck better, allowing Keruga to be cast from hand and trigger Wild Pair to get Palinchron onto the battlefield. Generally, as in this case, that produces infinite mana, infinite cascades... Jared refused to concede for a good 10 minutes but I cast and recast Walk the Aeons. Ezuri's Predation generated 24 power and the 16/16 Impervious Greatwurm joined the field. I had more than enough to kill all of my opponents

legendofa on Which commander for a Simic …

10 months ago

SteelSentry I don't want to turn down your advice, I'm going to check EDHrec, but I have a Gorion, Wise Mentor deck in this series for Adventures. Keruga, the Macrosage would be a fun twist if I can make the budgeting work.

SteelSentry on Which commander for a Simic …

10 months ago

On Arena I have every budget beater and card draw spell in those colors I own for the most part. I usually don't recommend it as a first stop, but in this case, the theme is wide open enough that a scroll through EDHREC is a fine place to start.

https://edhrec.com/commanders/troyan-gutsy-explorer/budget

It looks like Adventures are a good budget option, and Keruga as a companion is another neat direction to go in. Check out split cards and the new Rooms in Duskmourn for ways to get around Keruga, the Macrosage's restriction!

Rhadamanthus on two of the same companion …

1 year ago

The reason you can't do this comes from the following rule:

903.11. If a player is allowed to bring a card from outside the game into a Commander game, that player can’t bring a card into the game this way if it has the same name as a card that player had in their starting deck, if it has the same name as a card that the player owns in the current game, or if any color in its color identity isn’t in the color identity of the player’s commander.

So though you would technically be allowed to name Keruga, the Macrosage as your Companion if you also put Keruga in your deck, there would be no way to actually get the Companion into the game after it starts. You won't be able to use it.

CamperCarl00 on Do all the things

1 year ago

I think you can't have Keruga, the Macrosage as your companion whilst Gollum, Patient Plotter is in the deck.

wallisface on Leyline of the Land

1 year ago

I like this concept a lot, and from the look of the list it feels very easy to assemble.

My only thought is that there has to be more obnoxious permanents to cast for 5 mana… you’re not restricted by colour so you can just put any egregious nonsense into play pretty easily. Imo Titania, Protector of Argoth is only really any good in a deck running fetchlands.

I had a quick look through gatherer and the following might be worth considering:

• Demigod of Revenge is hyper aggressive and can mess with your opponents ability to kill your board.

• Fury (and maybe Solitude) feels like a solid ways to apply pressure and mess with the opponent.

• Doom Whisperer rigs your deck so that are always drawing gas. It also works great with the before-mentioned Demigod of Revenge.

• Dragonlord Ojutai is a resilient threat if you’re local meta has a lot of killspells.

• Garruk, Primal Hunter wins most grindy games just through being a value engine. In a similar vein Teferi, Hero of Dominaria can provide you a lot of advantage if you can keep it alive.

• Glorybringer is stronk but might not be stronk enough for the effort to get him into play

• Sheoldred  ^Flip probably auto-wins by itself if you can flip her

• Keruga, the Macrosage draws you all the cards.

Futt_Bucker on Jodah Cascades

2 years ago

5.28 avg cmc is astronomically high my man. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but that means on avg you won't be able to play anything until your 5th turn 3/4 games and turn 6 the other 1/4. I have a Jodah deck with Keruga, the Macrosage as a companion. It's purposely trying to have a high cmc with no 1 or 2 drops and only 1 nonlegendary and I'm still about a full mana cheaper on avg.

Here's a link for reference and to hopefully give you some ideas. "Shanked By Jank" - Featuring Jodah and Keruga