At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Bumi, Unleashed
- Colors: Red / Green (RG)
- Archetype: Gruul earthbend land-creature aggro (budget)
- Power tier: competitive
- Competitive Brawl: ⚠️ Not legal — banned/illegal: Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer (casual/regular play only)
Not Competitive Brawl-legal
This deck can’t be played in Competitive Brawl — it contains a banned/illegal card: Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. It’s fine for casual/regular play.
Strategy
Ramp into Bumi, Unleashed, then earthbend your lands into hasty 0/0+counter attackers. When Bumi connects, every land untaps and a bonus combat opens where only land creatures swing — so the earthbend package (Toph, Badgermole, Earthbending Lesson, Rockalanche, Cracked Earth Technique) is your whole payoff, and the freed mana refuels more animation the same turn. Trample and counter anthems (Badgermole, Goreclaw, Garruk’s Uprising, Solid Ground, Mossborn Hydra) turn those animated lands lethal, while landfall bodies pile on from all the ramp. Haste and protection (Rhythm of the Wild, Swiftfoot Boots, Crashing Drawbridge, Ogre Battledriver) get Bumi online early, and a cheap burn/removal suite keeps blockers off the board.
Upgrade path
This is the playable-now budget build: it runs only owned cards plus common/uncommon crafts, with ZERO rare/mythic wildcards spent because the commander Bumi, Unleashed is already owned. Where the power ceiling uses unaffordable bombs (Aggravated Assault, Craterhoof Behemoth, Embercleave, The Great Henge, Moraug, Terror of Mount Velus, planeswalkers), this list substitutes the owned/common-uncommon earthbend land-creature engine and cheap trample payoffs to keep Bumi’s core loop intact. Upgrade toward data/decks_json/brawl-bumi-combat.json as wildcards allow — top craft priorities are Aggravated Assault, then Craterhoof Behemoth and Terror of Mount Velus as finishers.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Bumi, Unleashed
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Woodland Mystic
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Circuitous Route
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Haru, Hidden Talent
1 Rebellious Captives
1 Earthbending Student
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 Bitter Work
1 Rockalanche
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
1 Earth Rumble
1 Earth Kingdom General
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
1 Earthbending Lesson
1 Badgermole
1 Cracked Earth Technique
1 Solid Ground
1 The Cave of Two Lovers
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Territorial Scythecat
1 Brushfire Elemental
1 Skyclave Geopede
1 Snapping Gnarlid
1 Roaring Earth
1 Evolution Sage
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Earth Rumble Wrestlers
1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Elemental Bond
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Seismic Sense
1 Rhythm of the Wild
1 Crashing Drawbridge
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Ogre Battledriver
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Gigantosaurus
1 Sentinel Spider
1 Needletooth Pack
1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrade
1 Lava Coil
1 Scorching Dragonfire
1 Beast Within
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Quaketusk Boar
1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
1 Rydia, Summoner of Mist
1 Inspirited Vanguard
1 Makindi Sliderunner
1 Command Tower
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Den of the Bugbear
1 Stomping Ground
1 Thornspire Verge
10 Mountain
22 Forest
Ideal build (upgrade target)
The power-ceiling build (multi-agent workflow output) — every premium payoff and the full combo/synergy package. The current list is the playable-now budget version; craft toward this as your wildcards come in.
Crafts to reach the ideal: 35 (17 mythic, 15 rare, 3 other)
- Mythic: Bloom Tender, Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Chaos Warp, Combat Celebrant, Craterhoof Behemoth, Embercleave, Fervor, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Old Gnawbone, Port Razer, Questing Beast, Terror of the Peaks, The Great Henge, Verdurous Gearhulk, Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate, Xenagos, God of Revels
- Rare: Aggravated Assault, Birds of Paradise, Bonecrusher Giant, Brotherhood’s End, Delighted Halfling, Domri, Anarch of Bolas, Esika’s Chariot, Glorybringer, Heroic Intervention, Nature’s Will, Relentless Assault, Terror of Mount Velus, Tireless Tracker, Topiary Stomper, Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- Other: Pathbreaker Ibex, Sword of Feast and Famine, Sylvan Library
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Bumi, Unleashed
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Delighted Halfling
1 Bloom Tender
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Cultivate
1 Farseek
1 Circuitous Route
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Topiary Stomper
1 Aggravated Assault
1 Combat Celebrant
1 Nature's Will
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Port Razer
1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
1 Relentless Assault
1 Fervor
1 Rhythm of the Wild
1 Crashing Drawbridge
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Xenagos, God of Revels
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Pathbreaker Ibex
1 Terror of Mount Velus
1 Embercleave
1 The Great Henge
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Elemental Bond
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Sylvan Library
1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrade
1 Chaos Warp
1 Beast Within
1 Lava Coil
1 Scorching Dragonfire
1 Brotherhood's End
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Questing Beast
1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
1 Old Gnawbone
1 Glorybringer
1 Terror of the Peaks
1 Verdurous Gearhulk
1 Ogre Battledriver
1 Esika's Chariot
1 Bonecrusher Giant
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Command Tower
1 Secret Tunnel
1 Den of the Bugbear
1 Stomping Ground
1 Thornspire Verge
14 Mountain
18 Forest
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