Grand Warlord Radha Is a commander that I haven't seen pick up the steam I have expected ever since it's release. One of my favourite cards of all time is Druids' Repository and Radha allows us to have that as a legendary creature with a little gruul flavour added in. The deck can be complex and interesting even though the strategy can be boiled down to turning your board sideways.
You can go Xenagos for your big creatures or Ruric thar for your purists out there, but for Gruul tokens, Radha is a great choice. This build leans heavily into that and going into a token-heavy strategy allows you to pump some crazy amount of mana into mana sinks such as Rhonas the Indomitable and Genesis Wave . Radha can allow us to ramp up our deck in terms of mana and the wideness of our board quite quickly and exponentially. This allows us to free up some of our Ramp slots for some interesting and great effects eg; Sunbird's Invocation .
Gramdma Rampa Radha
Sure, Grand Warlord Radha (GWR) generates us a significant amount of mana in a perfect situation, but our deck runs a fair few expensive cards, x costs and mana sinks, and it's good to have a back-up plan to get to them without entirely relying on GWR.
Into the part that makes GWR truly interesting to play. The token creation in this build gets us where we want with our many, many swingers attacking, generating mana and dealing damage. We run a series of token staples with Avenger of Zendikar. Dragonlair Spider and both the Hanweir melds (Hanweir Garrison, Hanweir Battlements).
We also run a few token creators that work particularly well with Radha's Ability to generate us mana to put into them. Tilonalli's Summoner, Ant Queen and Wort, the Raidmother certainly get us where we want here.
Finally we have our Doubling Season and Parallel Lives which are essentials for getting our deck out of hand faster than our opponents can handle.
Our main strategy is very transparent and so once our opponents have built up and begun to grow their boards and play their threats it can become quite hard to overcome them. But we are Gruul, we see big wall and get even bigger fist to punch through!
If we aren't able to attack an opponent with our tokens, Impact Tremors can provide a way of putting our tokens to good use simply by their creation. Shaman of Forgotten Ways is also a great way to take care of that annoying Pillow-fort opponent.
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