Keruga Hammer

Modern Keruga, the Macrosage Prison RG (Gruul)

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Land (23)

• 4x Blast Zone
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 2x Den of the Bugbear
• 2x Forest
• 3x Mountain
• 3x Spikefield Cave  ^Flip
• 4x Stomping Ground
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Blood Moon
• 2x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Hammer of Bogardan

Creature (18)

• 4x Bloodbraid Elf
• 4x Bonecrusher Giant
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 3x Endurance
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Klothys, God of Destiny
• 4x Seasoned Pyromancer

Planeswalker (6)

• 3x Chandra, Dressed to Kill
• 3x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Artifact (4)

• 4x Trinisphere

Companion (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 2x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage
• 2x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Obstinate Baloth

Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 2x Pulse of Murasa

Enchantment (1)

• 1x The First Eruption

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Pillage

Artifact (3)

• 3x Ensnaring Bridge

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Tireless Tracker

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Gruul prison deck. The basic gameplan is to muck up the game early with cards like Blood Moon and Trinisphere. Then, you win the battle of attrition late game with Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Hammer of Bogardan, and Keruga, the Macrosage.

This deck is fairly similar to a lot of gruul utopia/ponza builds or mono-red prison type decks but I will explain some of the unique choices for the deck. So, firstly, this is a Keruga, the Macrosage deck. After playing with the card a few times, it is actually very powerful if it resolves. It almost always draws 3+ cards when it hits the board and is a big body, too. It also gives insurance to the cascade from Bloodbraid Elf because, for example, if you have a Blood Moon in play and then cascade into a second or third Blood Moon then that might be a bit of a bummer but it just means you have another permanent in play for Keruga, the Macrosage so you will just draw more cards later.

You actually don't lose much by playing Keruga, the Macrosage either because many decks using Obosh, the Preypiercer as a companion, which seems to be viable, also has mainly cards CMC 3 or greater. You're just losing 1 drops like Lightning Bolt and Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer but we try to compensate for that with Trinisphere.

Then, Hammer of Bogardan looks pretty bad but is actually very good. It feels kind of unstoppable actually if you have a prison set with Ensnaring Bridge or something and you just hit the opponent for 3 every turn. You just need one of these in the graveyard, which is easy enough with 4 Seasoned Pyromancer, 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker   and 4 cascade from Bloodbraid Elf, and you can really grind the opponent down later when decide you need it.

Finally, playing 4 Blast Zone is very strong because you can wipe the board of anything CMC 2 or lower which doesnt effect your board at all. Also, Blood Moon just turns them into regular lands eventually so the colorless mana won't hurt that bad.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 3 Mythic Rares 29 - 4 Rares 8 - 8 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Emblem Chandra, Dressed to Kill, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin Shaman, Treasure
Folders	Creative AND Good