Meet Me In the Middle - Grenzo Dungeon Warden

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos)

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Creature (34)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Canal Dredger
• 1x Clone Shell
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deal Broker
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Epitaph Golem
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Goblin Chieftain
• 1x Goblin Sledder
• 1x Goblin Trashmaster
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Junktroller
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Skirk Prospector
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Workhorse
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x High Market
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malice

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (3)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Terminate

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Darksteel Pendant
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Tel-Jilad Stylus
• 1x Thran Turbine

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Mindmoil
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Creature (35)

• 1x Anax, Hardened in the Forge
• 1x Anje Falkenrath
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 2x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Greven, Predator Captain
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
• 1x Mad Auntie
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Mogg War Marshal
• 1x Nekrataal
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 2x Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Tymaret, the Murder King
• 1x Vulturous Aven
• 1x Young Necromancer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (10)

• 1x Faithless Salvaging
• 2x Fire Covenant
• 2x Fire Prophecy
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Village Rites

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sunset Pyramid
• 2x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Trading Post

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Dread Return
• 2x Faithless Looting
• 2x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment

Land (1)

• 1x Isolated Watchtower

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Welcome to my take on Grenzo, Dungeon Warden !

To give you an idea, this deck is not intended to be a combo deck (in the sense of tutor up the win and call it done). It HAS the potential of doing so, but the idea is to have Grenzo be more of a toolbox commander and be more "fun", while still being able to answer allot of things our opponents might end up doing, but also to cheat out creatures for less mana

Now disclaimer: This deck is still in its testing phases. Due to lack of being able to play I don't know how often this will be updated, but I feel it necessary to note that I don't play weekly anymore.

So lets get started! How do we win you say?

Win-con #1 Show

Kiki-Jiki Pile #1 - Zealous Conscripts:

With Grenzo in play, cast Doomsday for BBB, leaving you with 2 mana

Pile the following, from Top to Bottom: XXX (any card of your choice), Zealous Conscripts , Goblin Sledder , Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker , Priest of Gix

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Priest of Gix, and acquiring BBB

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, who will then activate making a copy of Priest of Gix, pooling BBBB

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Goblin Sledder , who will sacrifice himself to add +1/+1 to Grenzo, leaving you with BB pooled

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Zealous Conscripts, who will take control of Kiki-Jiki and untap him

Kiki-Jiki will then go infinite with Zealous, creating infinite tokens with haste, who attack and win.

Kiki-Jiki Pile #2 - No Zealous Conscripts: Show

With Grenzo in play, cast Doomsday for BBB, leaving you with 2 mana

Pile the following, from Top to Bottom: Metallic Mimic , Murderous Redcap , Skirk Prospector , Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker , Priest of Gix

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Priest of Gix, leaving you with BBB

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, who will then activate making a copy of Priest of Gix, pooling BBBB

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Skirk Prospector, leaving you with BB

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Murderous Redcap

Sacrifice Kiki-Jiki and Redcap to Skirk Prostpector, giving you RR

With Redcaps Persist trigger on the stack, activate Grenzo again with your remaining mana to bring in Metallic Mimic naming Goblin

This returns Murderous Redcap without any counters, allowing you to go infinite with Redcap being sacrificed to Skirk, while returning with no counters on due to Mimic. This creates an infinite loop of 2 damage dealt to a player, killing the table.

No Kiki-Jiki in Pile: Show

With Grenzo in play, cast Doomsday for BBB, leaving you with 3 mana

Pile the following, from Top to Bottom: Metallic Mimic , Murderous Redcap , Skirk Prospector , Priest of Urabrask , Priest of Gix

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Priest of Gix, leaving you with BBB+1

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Priest of Urabrask leaving you with BBRRR

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Skirk Prospector leaving you with BBR

Spend 2 mana, activating Grenzo, to bring in Murderous Redcap leaving you with B

Sacrifice Redcap to Skirk Prospector, adding R, leaving you with BR

With Redcaps Persist trigger on the stack, activate Grenzo again with your remaining mana to bring in Metallic Mimic naming Goblin

This returns Murderous Redcap without any counters, allowing you to go infinite with Redcap being sacrificed to Skirk, while returning with no counters on due to Mimic. This creates an infinite loop of 2 damage dealt to a player, killing the table.

Other Combos - Infinite Mana/Infinite ETB/LTB triggers Show

You will need Workhorse , Grenzo, Dungeon Warden , Heartstone and Epitaph Golem . This is the easiest way to do it, without needing a sacrifice outlet

Using Workhorse, remove all four counters from him, having 4 colorless mana floating

With Workhorse in your graveyard, use 1 colorless to use Epitaph Golem's ability, targetting Workhorse and putting it on the bottom of your library (three still in the pool due to cost reduction)

Use Grenzo to pull Workhorse out. Workhorse now enters the battlefield and is able to rinse and repeat (two colorless remaining). Each cycle nets two colorless mana

This combo can be performed for infinite (colorless) mana. In addition, cards like Flayer of the Hatebound or any Blood Artist / Purphoros, God of the Forge type effects allow this to deal infinite damage. This combo can be performed without Heartstone, but nets no additional mana

Other Combos - Infinite Mana/Infinite ETB/LTB triggers Pt.2 Show

You will need Priest of Gix , Grenzo, Dungeon Warden , Heartstone , Epitaph Golem and some sort of sacrifice outlet, not to mention getting Priest either to the bottom of the library or hard casting it.

Priest ETB's, makes BBB

Sacrifice Priest to a sac outlet.

Use B for Epitaph Golem's ability, putting Priest on the bottom (BB remaining)

Use Grenzo (one B remaining) to return, now making BBB (BBBB in the pool)

While needing more pieces to function, it can still be a good way to make infinite (black) mana. Again, using ETB triggers like Flayer of the Hatebound or Purphoros, God of the Forge type cards or even using Blood Artist type of effects allows you to go off this way as well.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Goblin 1/1 R