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Commander / EDH Keruga, the Macrosage Partner RUG (Temur) Spellslinger

mjrsea

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls

Instant (12)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Ionize
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Repeated Reverberation
• 1x Savage Beating
• 1x Sublime Epiphany

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Escape to the Wilds
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Mythos of Illuna
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Temporal Spring
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Creature (16)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Beanstalk Giant
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Artifact (2)

• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Commanders (2)

Companion (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Double Vision
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Precognition Field
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage

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I built this deck, mostly, with cards I just had laying around. I wanted something to play with my play group, that was powered down a little bit, and using Keruga as a companion makes the deck more unique and also slows it up, thus lowering its power.

Yet, the more reps I get with this deck, the more it seems to just crush casual tables. First, playing Keruga often gets the table to overlook you, as you aren't doing anything until turn 3. Even then, you are normally still ramping on turn 3-4, maybe even still on turn 5. However, around turn 5 or 6 things take a serious turn. Pako comes down and he is straight terrifying at most tables, but still, he is not the card to be scared of. While Pako is drawing us cards, Haldan makes sure we never miss a land drop and just keep ramping.

The real wincon in the deck is copying a multiturn spell, a multi-attack phase spell, or even just going infinite off Ral and Expansion / Explosion. While the deck never seems to win the same way twice, it always wins off copying some busted spell. Even something as simple as Sublime Epiphany is back breaking when copied multiple times.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 1 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.33
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Construct */* C, Copy Clone
Folders	My Originals, frad