What is Magic: the Gathering Red-Green Gruul’s deck main theme? To smash with huge, hasty creatures to end opponents as soon as possible. Placing it into the paper, a deck with creatures that get pumped with their Landfall ability. Sure they are fast to kill but how are they resilient to spot removal? They are not. They are easily picked off even by Shock or a ping effect. The deck needs to evolve and here we have an updated list with ETB (Enters the Battlefield) abilities while maintaining a fatty power/toughness.

Today’s Standard BO1 deck tech for Magic Arena comes from a recent playtest video by CovertGoBlue. He featured a Gruul Deck that benefits from Snow-covered lands and Snow spells like Blizzard Brawl. It appears to be a crossbreed with the Mono-Green Aggro list but still retains a few core components such as Jaspera Sentinel, Esika’s Chariot, and Goldspan Dragon.

Check out the full Gruul Smash Standard BO1 deck list below.

MainDeck
7 Snow-Covered Forest
6 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Shatterskull Smashing
4 Cragcrown Pathway
2 Faceless Haven
3 Highland Forest
2 Lair of the Hydra

4 Goldspan Dragon
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
4 Jaspera Sentinel
4 Gnarled Professor
4 Prosperous Innkeeper

4 Blizzard Brawl
3 Esika’s Chariot
4 Frost Bite
4 Ranger Class

Sideboard
1 Environmental Sciences
1 Expanded Anatomy
1 Introduction to Annihilation
3 Mascot Exhibition
1 Containment Breach

See CovertGoBlue’s playtest video below.