Ruric Thar, Magecrusher

Ruric Thar is a straightforward green stomper that punishes opponents for playing instant-speed interaction while protecting itself from counterspells and targeted removal. Once it lands, it swings for 7 trample damage every turn while your opponents face a painful choice: let it connect or cast spells and lose life. The deck leans into big green creatures, mana ramp, and artifact-based threats that don't trigger Ruric Thar's damage ability—this lets you develop a board while forcing opponents into an awkward position.

Your gameplan is to ramp aggressively into Ruric Thar, then back it up with similarly large threats like Craterclaw Colossus, Garruk tokens, or artifact creatures that dodge the damage trigger. Cards like Garruk, Curse Breaker synergize perfectly, rewarding your power-4+ creatures with card draw while generating more threats. You're not trying to be fast combo; you're a midrange deck that exploits a taxing commander to grind out wins through combat while your opponents burn through their life totals answering your board.

Win via old-fashioned commander and combat damage. Your resilience against countermagic and cheap targeted removal is your edge—lean into it by playing creatures instead of sorceries and building an inevitably large board state that costs opponents life to interact with.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.