The deck forces opponents' creatures to block your attackers, then cashes in on General Marhault Elsdragon, which gives a blocked creature +3/+3 for each creature blocking it. Forced-block effects and must-be-blocked creatures pile blockers onto a single attacker, trample carries the excess damage to the player, and the combat and card-draw payoffs turn each of those attacks into value. How it wins: Force many blockers onto one huge trampling attacker, then deal lethal combat damage to a player, often across extra combat phases. Key cards: - Forced-block effects: These make all creatures able to block a target do so, so Marhault's bonus scales with every blocker; Roar of Challenge and Lure are the clearest examples. - Must-be-blocked creatures: These attackers force blocks on their own and trigger blocked-creature bonuses; Breaker of Armies and Nacatl War-Pride are the best examples. - Blocked-trigger payoffs: These reward creatures becoming blocked with extra combat, untapping or cards; Anzrag, the Quake-Mole and Neyith of the Dire Hunt lead the way. - Trample enablers: These let the oversized blocked creature push lethal damage through the blockers; Archetype of Aggression and Surrak and Goreclaw give the team trample. - Combat damage payoffs: These turn connecting hits into cards or a growing army; Ohran Frostfang and Quartzwood Crasher are the key examples.

General Marhault Elsdragon decklist

• Aberrant
• Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
• Arcane Signet
• Archetype of Aggression
• Armed
• Assembled Alphas
• Beast Whisperer
• Beast Within
• Birds of Paradise
• Bolt Bend
• Bonders' Enclave
• Boseiju, Who Endures
• Bow of Nylea
• Brash Taunter
• Brawn
• Breaker of Armies
• Chandra's Ignition
• Chaos Warp
• Cinder Glade
• Command Tower
• Commercial District
• Cragcrown Pathway
• Cultivate
• Deflecting Swat
• Elvish Mystic
• Exotic Orchard
• Fabled Passage
• Farseek
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• 7× Forest
• Fyndhorn Elves
• Garruk's Uprising
• Gorm the Great
• Greater Good
• Gruul Signet
• Guardian Project
• Hanweir Battlements
• Heroic Intervention
• Hunter's Insight
• Inscription of Abundance
• Karlach, Fury of Avernus
• Karplusan Forest
• Kessig Wolf Run
• Llanowar Elves
• Lure
• Mosswort Bridge
• 5× Mountain
• Nacatl War-Pride
• Nature's Claim
• Nature's Lore
• Nemesis Mask
• Neyith of the Dire Hunt
• Noble Quarry
• Ogre Battledriver
• Ohran Frostfang
• Plaza of Heroes
• Prismatic Vista
• Quartzwood Crasher
• Rancor
• Reflecting Pool
• Return of the Wildspeaker
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Rishkar's Expertise
• Roar of Challenge
• Rockfall Vale
• Rootbound Crag
• Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• Scavenger Grounds
• Shadowspear
• Shinen of Life's Roar
• Sol Ring
• Spire Garden
• Stomping Ground
• Surrak and Goreclaw
• Sylvan Caryatid
• Taiga
• Talisman of Impulse
• Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• Taunting Elf
• Three Visits
• Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• Two-Handed Axe
• Tyvar's Stand
• Vandalblast
• Vigor
• Wheel of Misfortune
• Wooded Foothills
• Xenagos, God of Revels
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth