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{"ops":[{"insert":"This is my "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grenzo, Dungeon Warden"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Defender/Walls Deck."},{"insert":"\n\nThough he is a goblin and walls are not normally a black-red archetype, his ability to dump cards from the bottom of my deck and put zero-power walls into play for 2 each is insanely powerful. \n\nA whopping 48 cards in the deck are grenzo targets - and there are a lot of tools to make grenzo's ability cheaper, copiable, or easily spammable in another way, ranging from "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heartstone"}},{"insert":" to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Braid of Fire"}},{"insert":" to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pit Automaton"}},{"insert":". The strategy also let you run some insanely niche synergy pieces that often get double-takes from the table, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tel-Jilad Stylus"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Meekstone"}},{"insert":", and some \"defender-adjacent\" cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rug of Smothering"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ornithopter of Paradise"}},{"insert":".\n\nGrenzo also ends up playing in a very strange, draw-go style, often just dropping a land and passing, only to pour everything into Grenzo's ability on an opponent's end step. Though the recursion is random, with half the cards being valid targets and several ways to manipulate the bottom of the deck, its very easy to drop Grenzo on turn 2 and start getting increasingly large numbers of walls each turn. Better yet, since they're all defenders, other players often don't percieve the deck as a serious threat.\n\nAfter going into full spam mode on walls, the deck has multiple paths to victory. First is amassing a ton of mana and beating down with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Bulwark"}},{"insert":" activated to animate your whole board. Second is copying abilities like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blight Pile"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vent Sentinel"}},{"insert":" to nuke your opponents from orbit. Finally, if backed into a corner, the deck can go infinite with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Feldon of the Third Path"}},{"insert":" copying "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Balthor the Defiled"}},{"insert":" to recur pinging walls with haste, thanks to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tuktuk Rubblefort"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Cauldron of Eternity"}},{"insert":" letting Grenzo recur cards off the bottom any number of times with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":".\n\nAnyways, That's the deck - one of my weirdest builds ever, but always a blast to play.\n"}]}
Commander
Commander
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Draw/Tutor
Draw/Tutor
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Enablers
Enablers
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Grenzo Targets
Grenzo Targets
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Land
Land
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Mana
Mana
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Recursion
Goblin Engineer
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
, , Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
, , Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Goblin Artificer
Goblin Welder
: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.
Creature - Goblin Artificer
Recursion
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Removal
Duplicant
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Molten Collapse
Choose one. If you descended this turn, you may choose both instead. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
• Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
• Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
Sorcery
Removal
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To The Bottom!
The Cauldron of Eternity
This spell costs less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
, , Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
, , Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact
To The Bottom!
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Win Cons
Furystoke Giant
When this creature enters, other creatures you control gain ": This creature deals 2 damage to any target" until end of turn.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Creature - Warrior Giant
Win Cons
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