Godzilla, King of Jank (Golgari Mutate)

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser BUG (Sultai) Deathtouch Jank Mutate Theme/Gimmick Trample Voltron

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Creature (43)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beanstalk Giant
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boneyard Lurker
• 1x Chittering Harvester
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Dirge Bat
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Gorm the Great
• 1x Keeper of Fables
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide *f-etch*
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Otrimi, the Ever-Playful
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Raving Dead
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Trumpeting Gnarr
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Virtus the Veiled
• 1x Volo, Guide to Monsters

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 9x Forest
• 10x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bounty of the Luxa
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission

Instant (1)

• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Commander (1)

Artifact (6)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Growth Spasm
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Victimize

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Cephalid Constable
• 1x Needle Specter
• 1x Ochre Jelly
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets

Instant (1)

• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Ozolith

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Feed the Pack

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He's Big! He's Bad! He can make Mutate stacks that make eyes roll! AND he keeps coming back!

Our playgroup decided to each build a deck based around one of the Ikoria Godzilla promos and have a battle of the titans to see who was the true king of the monsters! This is my take on a janky spicy Golgari Mutate deck! I tried to include all the weird and cool alternate art cards in my collection!

We're the Baddies!

Full disclosure, I love Godzilla movies, but I've never seen the one with Spacegodzilla. I thought that I was choosing the good guy monster. I WAS WRONG! We're the bad guy, and that's ok! This commander really surprised me in how resilient it performs, being able to quickly shift from one mutate payoff to another. First iteration focused more on creature recursion. With recent additions, the deck shifted to play more into the mutate theme while still keeping the fun jank factor of the original!

Gameplan

Mutate, DUH! We want to get some tasty mutate targets on the board and swing for the fences ASAP! We've also included some combat damage payoff cards in the form of card drawing interactions! Typically the deck ramps hard early, starts to slowly build a tall mutate creature, and can explode into weird janky threats for the end game!

Notable interactions and cards

Our commander synergizes really well with evasive or death touching creatures Baleful Strix fits the bill for both! A mutated Cold-Eyed Selkie can draw a lot of cards! A mutated card retains any counters on the original creature, making Toothy, Imaginary Friend HUGE! On a particular janky note, the deathtouch and trample combo makes Raving Dead and Virtus the Veiled difficult to block and even scarier when it swings, easily donking someone for half their life! Volo, Guide to Monsters gets super value off of mutated creatures. The creature will mutate, then the copy of the creature will mutate onto the same target. So for example for a Migratory Greathorn, we will have the copy which mutates 1x, then the original which mutates, creating a second occurrence which will trigger the mutations of the copy AND of the original, for a total of 3 triggers O.o If that makes your head hurt, try calculating how many muated Scute Swarms you end up with once it starts going. Of note, if you mutate on Scute Swarm, the copies that are made are whatever mutated creature you've made!

And we even have weird jank combos!

Greater Good and Ominous Seas together can lead to ploping out a fair number of Kraken tokens while filtering through your entire deck. NEAT!

Another older deck that I'm having fun updating, so any suggestions and feedback are welcome! An update is coming soon, waiting on ordered cards to arrive!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Insect 1/1 G, Kraken 8/8 U