Gimli, Mournful Avenger

Gimli, Mournful Avenger Commander Deck

Gimli, Mournful Avenger grows by stacking +1/+1 counters each time a creature you control dies, and once three creatures have died in a single turn he automatically fights an opponent's creature, making him both a growing threat and a removal engine. The deck fuels this loop by flooding the board with expendable creatures and tokens, then sacrificing or losing them in combat to trigger Gimli repeatedly while equipment like Gimli's Axe and combat tricks make him increasingly lethal. This is a bracket three deck, as Vicious Shadows turning every creature death into direct damage across the table, combined with Gimli's recursive growth and board-wide fight triggers, creates a high-pressure engine capable of closing games quickly through multiple overlapping win conditions.

Decklist

• Acolyte of Bahamut
• Ambitious Dragonborn
• Amethyst Dragon
• Arcane Signet
• Avenging Hunter
• Bag of Holding
• Balor
• Basilisk Collar
• Basilisk Gate
• Bhaal's Invoker
• Breath Weapon
• Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
• Cliffgate
• Cloak of the Bat
• Command Tower
• Coronation of Chaos
• Decanter of Endless Water
• Draconic Muralists
• Dread Linnorm
• Druid of the Emerald Grove
• Dungeoneer's Pack
• Earth Tremor
• Electrostatic Infantry
• Erebor Flamesmith
• Explore the Underdark
• Ezuri's Predation
• Fang Dragon
• Fearless Skald
• Fire of Orthanc
• Fireball
• Fires of Mount Doom
• 9× Forest
• Ganax, Astral Hunter
• Gate Colossus
• Geode Golem
• Gimli's Axe
• Gond Gate
• Heap Gate
• Heritage Reclamation
• Ingenious Artillerist
• Javelin of Lightning
• Livaan, Cultist of Tiamat
• Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• Manor Gate
• Master Chef
• Meteor Golem
• Meteorite
• Mind Stone
• Mithril Coat
• 12× Mountain
• Nature's Lore
• Navigation Orb
• Overwhelming Encounter
• Palladium Myr
• Pillardrop Warden
• Plundering Barbarian
• Rancor
• Reckless Barbarian
• Reflecting Pool
• Rug of Smothering
• Run Amok
• Saddle of the Cavalier
• Scaled Nurturer
• Sharpshooter Elf
• Shower of Arrows
• Silvanus's Invoker
• Sol Ring
• Spiteful Banditry
• Stone of Erech
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Thrakkus the Butcher
• Thrum of the Vestige
• Tiamat's Fanatics
• Traverse the Outlands
• Two-Handed Axe
• Universal Solvent
• Vicious Shadows
• You Look Upon the Tarrasque
• You Meet in a Tavern
• Young Red Dragon