Gut, Fanatical Priestess

Gut is a red midrange commander that rewards you for fighting and exiling your opponents' creatures. Her specialize ability costs {5} to give her an extra ability, letting you tutor for a combat trick or removal spell when she enters—effectively making her a repeatable selection engine. The core gameplan is to build around creatures with high power that win fights reliably, then use Gut's fight trigger to exile blockers and troublesome threats while dealing incidental damage. You're not trying to go wide; instead, you're leveraging aggressive creatures, fight payoffs (like cards that trigger when creatures die or when you deal combat damage), and combat tricks to grind out wins through creature superiority and pinpoint removal.

Since Gut exiles creatures, you'll want to maximize value from fight mechanics and creatures with evasion or forced-attack effects. Red's fight cards often come with card draw or extra damage, so you're doubling up on utility. The specialize ability means you can tutor answers on the fly, making the deck flexible against different matchups. With modest ramp and creatures that pressure opponents early, Gut closes games with commander damage or through a critical mass of damage-dealing creatures and effects.

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