Strong, the Brutish Thespian

Strong, the Brutish Thespian Commander Deck

The deck revolves around Strong, the Brutish Thespian's enrage ability, repeatedly dealing damage to him through fight spells and damage-redirection effects to stack +1/+1 counters while converting radiation into life gain. The deck runs a dense suite of green fight and bite spells to trigger enrage on demand, with cards that double or amplify counter placement like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution accelerating Strong into an overwhelming threat. The strategy wins through an ever-growing commander backed by synergistic creatures that also benefit from counters, creating a wide board that overwhelms opponents through combat.

Decklist

• Ancient Animus
• Aquastrand Spider
• Branching Evolution
• Broodhatch Nantuko
• Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
• Bushwhack
• Carnivorous Canopy
• Case of the Trampled Garden
• Cathedral Acolyte
• Courage in Crisis
• Cultivate
• Cytoplast Root-Kin
• Duskshell Crawler
• Emerald Medallion
• Evolution Witness
• Explore
• 34× Forest
• Garruk's Uprising
• Gift of the Viper
• Glowing One
• Guardian Project
• Gyre Sage
• Hardened Scales
• Harmonize
• Herd Baloth
• Hungering Hydra
• Inscription of Abundance
• Inspiring Call
• Kami of Whispered Hopes
• Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker
• Lily Bowen, Raging Grandma
• Llanowar Elves
• Llanowar Reborn
• Lumbering Megasloth
• Mariposa Military Base
• Mutant's Prey
• Novel Nunchaku
• Overgrown Armasaur
• Pick Your Poison
• Plow Through
• Pounce
• Power Fist
• Prey Upon
• Primal Might
• Prizefight
• Rampaging Yao Guai
• Rampant Growth
• Ranging Raptors
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Ripjaw Raptor
• Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• Rite of Passage
• Simic Initiate
• Smell Fear
• Snapping Sailback
• Sol Ring
• Sporeweb Weaver
• Synchronized Charge
• Tail Swipe
• Tato Farmer
• Titanic Brawl
• Trash the Town
• Tromell, Seymour's Butler
• Unnatural Restoration
• Urban Daggertooth
• Wildwood Scourge