Best Stompy Commander in MTG

summation

• Stompy decks aim to win quickly by quickly playing lots of creatures, mostly green-related.

• Legendary creatures like Halana and Alena make great Stompy decks in Commander.

• Choose a commander like Gwenna for mana boost, General Marhault Elsdragon for blocking, or Tovolar for power consumption.

Stompy is one of many deck types that exist in Magic: The Gathering. A Stompy deck is a deck that tries to play as many creatures as possible to win as quickly as possible. This is done by curving with a large creature so that you can deal a lot of damage before your opponent can start defending. It is most commonly associated with green, but exists in all colors.

Commander has a lot of legendary creatures that make up great Stompy decks. With how many powerful creatures have been released over the years, the Stompy deck has a ton of great creatures that could be powerful archetypes for the format.

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Halana and Alena, partners

Hurry up

There are two things Gruul (red/green) is good at: giving creatures haste and casting large creatures. Partners Halana and Alena not only activate haste, but they also provide +1/+1 counters to your creatures, helping them grow their stats to high numbers.

Halana and Alena decks often utilize cards that gain additional counters on creatures to increase the power of Halana and Alena, allowing them to increase the power of other creatures with their own effects. If you mix it with cards that can grant Rush, you can win like a snowball.

General Marholt Elsdragon

Dare to block it

Stompy decks deal massive damage and dissuade their opponents from blocking to achieve this. This is why General Marhault Elsdragon is great as a Stompy commander. When a creature is blocked, its stats increase dramatically, making it much easier to win the fight.

One of the best ways to build a General Marhault Elsdragon deck is to play a ton of creatures that can trample. This will cause your opponent to take damage if they don't block the attacker. However, even if you block, you still take damage as the creature tramples the attacker.

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Ruxa, Patient Professor

vanilla beatdown

Ruxa, the Patient Professor, is a unique way to play a Stompy deck using creatures without abilities. You can allocate damage as if your creatures weren't blocked, so attacking with enough creatures can take someone out of the game in just one turn, even if they're blocked.

The advantage of the Ruxa deck is that it is very affordable. The cost is very small, as most vanilla creatures are worth a penny. With support that increases the creature's stats, it can become a huge threat in the game.

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Gwena, Eye of Gaia

ramp up

A Stompy deck wants you to transform into a powerful creature to start the game. Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea is a quick way to do this. This is a mana poison that generates two mana instead of one and can untap itself when you cast a high-mana value creature. Umbra Mantle allows you to use Gwenna to untap for infinite mana, or you can tap a permanent to gain additional mana.

Unlike other Mana Dogs, Gwena's stats increase when she casts creature spells, making her a powerful attacker and blocker. Having a mana dock in your command zone is a very good thing, giving you constant access to additional mana generation.

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Gitrog, Ravenous Ride

Saddle up

Gitrog, Ravenous Ride is a unique Stompy deck that allows you to sacrifice powerful creatures to draw cards and place lands on the battlefield. This makes it easier to cast spells with high mana values. Although it has the disadvantage of not costing much mana, creatures with high stats are perfect targets for the Gitrog effect.

Gitrog, Ravenous Ride is a great creature in its own right, even if it doesn't use the saddle feature at all. Trample and Haste are the two best keywords in a Stompy deck, and their effects are just an added bonus to cards that are already useful in your strategy.

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Tovolar, Overlord of Dread

werewolf king

If you like drawing cards and turning werewolves aside, Tovolar, Dire Overlord is the perfect Stompy commander. It focuses on wolves and werewolves, all of which have useful effects for drawing cards when Tovolar deals damage.

Tovolar has everything you want in a Stompy deck, despite its narrow build mechanics. There are several useful mana poisons that can help your werewolf grow into the strongest werewolf. Since tails are always more powerful than heads, it also becomes trivial to create a night where every werewolf wants to wake up.

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Whirlwind Wanderer

step acceleration

Maelstrom Wanderer is a great commander for Stompy because it gives him two different spells along with Stompy. The sweet spot for Stompy's creatures is around 6 mana, so Whirling Wanderer has a mana value of 8, so it can cascade into Stompy. It also grants haste to a creature, allowing it to attack immediately.

One of the best ways to build a Maelstrom Wanderer deck is to utilize permanents that can bounce creatures back to your hand. This allows you to keep casting Maelstrom Wanderer without worrying about the commander tax and keep cascading down it, filling the battlefield with creatures.

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Animar, spirit of the elements

creature discount

Animar, Soul of Elements wants you to cast a ton of creature spells, and the more you cast, the bigger the Animar gets and the cheaper those creatures become. Protection from white and black is very relevant since these are the two colors with the most frequently used removal spells.

Since Animar only costs 3 mana to cast, you can get to the battlefield early and take full advantage of its effects as quickly as possible. The mana value of the creature you cast doesn't matter. So even a one-mana creature provides a counter to Animar, making it easier to cast larger creatures.

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Selvala, Heart of the Wild

drawing and lamp

Selvala, Heart of the Wild is a fantastic Stompy commander because all of his effects factor into his strategy. As you transform into more powerful creatures, you'll continue to draw cards and replace them with creatures in your hand. The mana generation effects are also fantastic, and with cards like Umbra Mantle or cards that can untap, you can easily generate infinite mana to play your entire hand.

Selvala allows you to easily generate infinite mana, making it easy to play your entire deck with the right combination of cards. The mana Selvala generates can be used on anything, not just creatures, so it can snowball.

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Helga the Cowardly Prophet

Little frog, big stomp

Most Stompy decks have high mana value creatures, and Skittish Seer Helga is one of the best ways to utilize them. It's a mana dock that can be tapped for a lot of one mana, but can only be tapped for higher mana values. Since the deck primarily includes large creatures, Helga can often tap to cast creatures at all times.

It also comes with the added bonus of providing a card draw to ensure your creatures always remain fresh in your hand.

The Bant (green/white/blue) colors help provide protection against extra creatures and anti-spells, but most cards are still likely to be green. Helga can eventually gain massive amounts of mana, and the more powerful creatures she casts, the better she gets.