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Ghalta and The Stompy Lads
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Est deck cost: $342.96
Salt sum: 35.38
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Commander

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (prix) 130

Commander

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Instant

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (bbd) 190
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (aer) 109
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (tsp) 202
Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Momentous Fall (roe) 197
Ram Through

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Instant
Ram Through (iko) 170
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (eld) 172
Shared Summons

Search your library for up to two creature cards with different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Shared Summons (m20) 193

Instant

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Artifact

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Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (nph) 132
Emerald Medallion

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Emerald Medallion (c14) 237
Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Fireshrieker (m14) 210
Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Lifecrafter's Bestiary (aer) 162
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c17) 215
Perilous Vault

{5}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all nonland permanents.

Artifact
Perilous Vault (m15) 224
Relic of Progenitus

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact
Relic of Progenitus (md1) 21
Rhonas's Monument

Green creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

Artifact
Rhonas's Monument (akh) 236
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c18) 222
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c14) 275

Artifact

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Land

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Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Land
Castle Garenbrig (eld) 240
Desert of the Indomitable

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Indomitable (hou) 172
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (ddr) 35
Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}. {1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Hashep Oasis (hou) 177
Lotus Field

Hexproof This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice two lands. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Land
Lotus Field (m20) 249
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers

{T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: Target legendary creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Land
Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers (chk) 280
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (m19) 254
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (ori) 250
Tranquil Thicket

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Thicket (mh1) 248

Land

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Creature

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (c13) 134
Aggressive Mammoth

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Other creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Aggressive Mammoth (m19) 302
Apex Altisaur

When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Apex Altisaur (c19) 31
Arbor Elf

{T}: Untap target Forest.

Creature
Arbor Elf (a25) 160
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (grn) 123
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m15) 173
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (5dn) 86
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (cmr) 228
Gigantosaurus

Creature
Gigantosaurus (m19) 185
God-Eternal Rhonas

Deathtouch When God-Eternal Rhonas enters, double the power of each other creature you control until end of turn. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn. When God-Eternal Rhonas dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Rhonas (war) 163
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (m19) 186
Hungering Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

Creature
Hungering Hydra (m19) 189
Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead. {3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Incubation Druid (rna) 131
Kogla, the Titan Ape

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (dom) 168
Llanowar Tribe

{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}.

Creature
Llanowar Tribe (mh1) 170
Loyal Guardian

Trample Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Loyal Guardian (c18) 31
Master of the Wild Hunt

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Creature
Master of the Wild Hunt (m10) 191
Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, Keen-Eyed (thb) 266
Prowling Serpopard

This spell can't be countered. Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Creature
Prowling Serpopard (akh) 180
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (m19) 196
Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

Creature
Runic Armasaur (m19) 200
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (chk) 239
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (mm3) 134
Steel Leaf Champion

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Creature
Steel Leaf Champion (dom) 182
Surrak, the Hunt Caller

Formidable — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)

Creature
Surrak, the Hunt Caller (dtk) 210
Terastodon

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Creature
Terastodon (wwk) 115
Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Thrashing Brontodon (rix) 148
Ulvenwald Tracker

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

Creature
Ulvenwald Tracker (avr) 200
Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample When this creature enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Verdurous Gearhulk (kld) 172
Voracious Hydra

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. • This creature fights target creature you don't control.

Creature
Voracious Hydra (m20) 200
Yeva, Nature's Herald

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Yeva, Nature's Herald (m13) 197
Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Yorvo enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another green creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.

Creature
Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig (eld) 185

Creature

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Planeswalker

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Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}. +1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land. −8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Who Shakes the World (war) 169
Vivien Reid

+1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −3: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. −8: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible."

Planeswalker
Vivien Reid (m19) 208

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Frontier Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of each of your main phases, add {G}{G}. • Dragons — Whenever a creature you control with flying enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control.

Enchantment
Frontier Siege (frf) 131
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (m21) 308
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (2xm) 170
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (rna) 130
Sandwurm Convergence

Creatures with flying can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of your end step, create a 5/5 green Wurm creature token.

Enchantment
Sandwurm Convergence (akh) 183

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (war) 160
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (plc) 149
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (chk) 225
Nylea's Intervention

Choose one — • Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

Sorcery
Nylea's Intervention (thb) 188
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (m10) 201
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (aer) 123

Sorcery

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Wishlist

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Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land
Bonders' Enclave (iko) 245
Elder Gargaroth

Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.

Creature
Elder Gargaroth (m21) 179
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191
Gyre Sage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Gyre Sage (gtc) 123
Karametra's Acolyte

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Creature
Karametra's Acolyte (ths) 160
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (ori) 186
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (c18) 267
Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (cmr) 328
Nissa, Worldwaker

+1: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with trample. It's still a land. +1: Untap up to four target Forests. −7: Search your library for any number of basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Those lands become 4/4 Elemental creatures with trample. They're still lands.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Worldwaker (m15) 187
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Land
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood (zen) 221
Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (m11) 189
Rhonas the Indomitable

Deathtouch, indestructible Rhonas can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater. {2}{G}: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Rhonas the Indomitable (akh) 182
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (hou) 182

Wishlist

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"My second ever completed EDH deck. I remember on my first store championship winning the Ghalta promo given as a preview for the then upcoming Rivals of Ixalan and liking it so much that I wanted to make a Commander deck out of it as I wanted to get into the format. In the end, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lord Windgrace"}},{"insert":" ended up being my first EDH deck, but I still wanted to make a Ghalta deck, and eventually I managed to get there.\n\nThis deck is simple on its execution, you just keep ramping, get some other big creatures to reduce the cost of Ghalta and then cast him to go home. Pretty much a midrange stompy deck with a some Trample synergies as well. If you're pretty lucky, you would have a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lightning Greaves"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Swiftfoot Boots"}},{"insert":" on the battlefield, or if VERY lucky, also a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fireshrieker"}},{"insert":" and a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rogue's Passage"}},{"insert":". You can probably guess what would happen to an unlucky player if there's nothing stopping Ghalta from attacking.\n"}]}
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