Tergrid, God of Fright | Stax / Thievery - The Brewery [S05E17]

Greetings, everyone! Welcome to The Commander Tavern! I am Demented Kirby and this is the 17th episode of the 5th season of one of the series on this channel, The Brewery. This series is all about brewing and deck techs - hopefully showcasing the spiciest of brews!
This episode of The Brewery is my take on Tergrid, God of Fright. Tergrid is not only brutal as the commander of a stax deck since you can steal what's being sacrificed, but what's discarded as well. Not only that, but her backside is a wincon in the command zone once you're able to generate infinite mana. If you want to see the complete decklist for this deck, you can find it at this link: tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-01...
As always, thanks to all you viewers for your interest! Comment down below how else you'd build around Tergrid, God of Fright. You can also tweet me @CommanderTavern.
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[@Pedrobp92]

Possessed Portal is basically a one card wincon in this deck, blocking draws, forcing discards and sacrifices. If it starts hurting you too much you just sac it to itself.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

That's definitely an evil card!

[@gammypr3]

Nearly perfect! I was hoping for a Deck list

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Thanks! Glad you like it! The decklist is in the description.

[@zwc76]

@6:30: Rankles effects have to be applied in order, so if they are empty handed, you can only make them draw, you can not make them first draw then discard, the discard always happens first. Otherwise, great deck tech! :-)

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Thanks for the clarification!

[@crovax1375]

The play style of Tergrid reminds me a lot of a Shauku, Endbringer deck that I built, except Tergrid can win! Painful Quandary could almost be considered a win condition in this deck. Mind Rake is an underrated card that could work too

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Both excellent suggestions! I also updated the list to include Memory Jar. For some reason I thought it was ridiculously expensive a la Wheel of Fortune but it's actually quite cheap all things considered. Very cheap, in fact.

[@jordanpearson6446]

I've been looking at a lot of Tergird decks lately but am still surprised that I haven't seem some certain cards show up at all. This was the first one to suggest Words of Waste. Cards that I'm seeing a few of: - Words of Waste - Necrogen Mists - Desolation - Mind Slash Card I'm not seeing: - Triumph of Cruelty - Oppression Situational cards: - Warped Devotion - Gloom - Deathgrip - Endbringer's Revel Warped Devotion is good against bounce decks and can be made into a combo if you get bounce engine going. Gloom is good against white and can keep white spells stuck in your opponents hands longer for you to poach for yourself. Similarly to Gloom, Deathgrip can deter opponents from casting green spells which you can nab for your self when you make them discard, it also has the added benefit of protecting from most artifact/enchantment removal. Both cards can help you slow down your opponents plays or just force them to make sub-optimal plays. Endbringer's Revel might be interesting to use as a form of reanimator strategy to recur your opponents creatures from the graveyard to their hand then make them discard them for you to use. It has some risk in that it does give everyone a recursion tool which can be dangerous angst cerein decks. Though these cards are fairly situational.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Even though a lot of these are situational, they're still great cards. I suggested a lot of hosers in my Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale knight tribal deck in the form of all of those knights that both counter spells of specific colors as well as destroying permanents of a specific color. So Deathgrip especially can be very oppressive if you combine it with Painter's Servant. Mind Slash is also an amazing card and actually quite the bomb in my Commander Cube. Since you're stealing creatures away from opponents, chances are you'll always have things to pitch to it to make opponents discard cards.

[@jordanpearson6446]

@@TheCommanderTavern I actually like Deathgrip with Balduvian Shaman if you're running blue and have a blink effect. Color changing cards like that and Painter Servant also pair well with Breath of Dreams. I especially like how these are kind of obscure cards so most opponents won't be ready for them and they are cheap.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

@@jordanpearson6446 Exactly. I love running those obscure pieces of super secret tech that really take opponents off guard.

[@alex.sanders]

Only a Human without a soul could play her as a commander! Lol! Great vid tho.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Lol, indeed! >:D Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@incardianify]

I already have a tiny bones deck, but I am gonna use tergrid as the comander.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Tergrid is definitely stronger than Tinybones, in my opinion.

[@Eric_DJ]

I'm so building this I have all the cards except the commander.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Nice! It should be a breeze for you then when Kaldheim gets released!

[@incardianify]

Same

[@ProtoSkullX1]

Do The Scorpion god deck tech next without infect being the focus just -1/-1 counters

[@TheCommanderTavern]

I didn't even know a The Scorpion God infect deck was a thing. Is it common?

[@ProtoSkullX1]

@@TheCommanderTavern infect makes it a bit more aggressive

[@davidcapano9996]

Greel, mind raker would like to make tegrids acquaintance

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Off! The bestest of friends!

[@davidcapano9996]

@@TheCommanderTavern and i just did the research lithoform engine can copy the x cost in greel for added fun

[@TheCommanderTavern]

@@davidcapano9996 Yes it can, since it copies activated abilities on the stack; so it copies any values as they exist.

[@josehaya6362]

you would say this is a High power deck?

[@TheCommanderTavern]

It's high-powered but not cEDH. There is no such thing as a "tame" or "casual" Tergrid deck; the commander simply doesn't allow it.

[@phillydra9823]

peer into the abyss ?? surely making someone draw half their deck would be good.

[@TheCommanderTavern]

It would if you could cast it in response to their end step so they could discard almost half their library. The problem is that drawing half their deck means potentially getting more than enough answers to deal with either Tergrid or your boardstate.

[@incardianify]

Add tiny bones

[@TheCommanderTavern]

Tinybones would definitely be an interesting inclusion.