Grothama All Devouring Commander Deck Tech 

Its a raid boss that drops hella loot. I like it.

WHAT?? A 5 mana drop that has MORE attack than our lord&saviour Yargle?? HERESY!!

Grothama reads “when this creature leaves the battlefield”, not when this creature dies. This means you could put some cool flicker effects in the deck as well.

You definitely need the green Myojin from Kamigawa in this deck. It's 8/8 indestructible that u can kill grothama, draw 8 and then remove its indestructibility and put in game ALL the creatures in your hand. With the insane card draw that u can generate with this deck this is a must. Asceticism is also good to protect your creatures from removal and sweepers. Bane of progress is a must since this is a creature heavy deck which can get huge and help u kill Grothama. Maybe add a Storm seeker (3G inst. deals dmg equal to cards in hand) somewhere in there for payback to the opponent who kills your commander. Sword of war and Peace will punish anyone abusing Grothama's draw ability. Also be careful not to mill yourself out. It CAN happen during these exciting moments. Very interesting deck and looks super fun.

Inspiring and interesting deck tech! As expected from you! Gotta start building my own Grothama deck asap!!! Love your content!

DJ, every time I watch one of your videos, you make me excited to build new decks.

I love this guy. Recently built a Grothama deck and you really add some fun ideas. Psychosis crawler for the win!!

Great video! I love the flavor of this commander!

Watching this was a treat, thanks for it

STILL different from my own Grothama build, STILL different from every other Grothama build I've seen on RU-vid thus far. I'm very happy to see this! People are seeing different parts of this card and building it in different ways. It's cute

hey Jumbo, love your deck techs! I'm new to the EDH scene ( about 4 month in now). I recently watched your Jodah deck tech and build a deck with the mentioned decklist and the suggestions in the video. Really helped me alot :). Thank you for your videos and keep the great work up

At first I didn't like this deck, but now Im placing an order for all of these cards on TCG Player. Thank you Jumbo Commander!

I want to play commander with you. Awesome deck. I have ordered the commander a while ago. Now I need to make it a reality hahaha

I've never seen a green deck that could potentially draw so many cards, I love it. This looks like a super fun deck to play. Now I gotta build Grothama.

Good job Jumbo! For making it onto the Command zone! Sorry for the belated congrats. Used to watch your videos religiously but been kinda been really busy lately. Keep up the awesome content as well! Really loved this deck tech a bunch.

Great Content. Love your channel !

Awesome deck! Big creatures ftw!

Mossbridge troll! I'm a green player and had never seen this troll! It's definitely going into my big green creature edh deck! Great video, lots of,good ideas and thanks for showing me the troll!

Awesome deck tech!!! It was great meeting you and playing against you in Vegas, I hope I have the opportunity again!

Great deck tech! Very original and fun deck it seems. And oh my god, I just checked the Core Set Spoilers and swa Arcades, I DEFINITELY want you to do sooooo bad a deck tech of the defender dragon! :D

Wow, crazy draw in green, can't believe my eyes.

Just subscribed because of the into. "Now before you attack!"

I like how the background for the "Indestructibility" section is Destructor Dragon :)

I picked up Grothama as a fun jank card for my Ghalta commander deck, love the wurm.

THATS AN ALASKAN BULL WORM!

Grothama is quickly becoming my favourate card from battlebond!

* draws 25 cards and prays for something that gives no maximum hand size*

I was having a stupid hard time figuring out how best to play Grothama. Turns out I have a mono green Vorinclex deck thats about to get new moves. Thanks Jumbo Commander! Love your deck techs

I made a deck and it was a wurm deck and i could not find a legendary wurm but i guess there is one so thank you for showing me that legendary wurms do exist

Yes! I love Grothama as a commander! Although It's terrible, It's such a unique and seems like a fun commander! It's like boss commander, and everyone tries to take out this boss and gain loot based on how much damage you dealt! I love it! Personally I prefer to take the rout of trying to make your opponent fight Grothama, and then you protect it by using big instant speed pump spells, as well as using them as a surprise when attacking by pumping them and giving them trample to kill with commander damage, although there might not be enough good ones to make it work. I guess we won't be seeing more Dominaria deck tecs for a while because of Battlebond.

I was going to do a Sylvala Heart of the Wild List but this deck has me giddy to play

LOL The first Mythic I pulled in my battlebond draft was Grothama. I spent some time just looking at the card to understand why it is mythic, instantly was drawn to the ''leaves the battlefield text'' was like ''oh I can bounce this creature'' but now you've mentioned that it can fight my own creatures, LMAO totallty missed that! So far I was using Grothama in my Derevi bounce and then tried Grothama in my Meren deck. I love bouncing Grothama, when it came to opponents combat I bounced Grothama, they get no card advantage, also using Bant gives access to all the bounce, indestructible, and pump spells; it is almost like a mini game now with my Derevi deck that it spends time fighting Grothama and not bothering with my opponents who in turn kind of leave me alone, meanwhile drawing cards to get my lock down combo. Meren merely sacrifices Grothama after a few tokens attack it each turn, merely to bring it back again:P

I've been playing a similar deck to this lately in paper and recently I dropped Vigor with Grothama out and I just turned my Inkmoth into a creature to swing for game. Seems like a really good land with Ibex and many of the other pump spells/effects we have.

Could you try to create a turbo fog deck? I have no idea what the commander would be, and I’d like to see how you would approach that

Grothama his triggered abillity would also work if it is bounced or flickerd right? Since it only says that it needs to leave the battlefield.

I believe Seedborn Muse from the Kamigawa block would be extremely helpful as well.

Played about 10 games with this decklist and it definitely isn't my favorite. I felt like things just had to come together correctly for it to even stand a chance. Had some really high highs but it was pretty low the rest of the time and it wasn't too fun to play.

Helm of the host is a great to consider for every edh deck but it only good if you have a commander that really benefits having multiple copies.

I like this decktech, i would add some form of recursion for our commander so it doesnt get too expensive, as well as to bring back some key creatures

Do you know the first rule of Wurm Club?

I can see more of a tron strategy where you grow the worm and then when it inevitably dies hopefully you get a lot of damage and draw more cards it also gives us more time to draw combo pieces example phycosis crawler

FYI, with the fighting, you get the triggers, and resolve them one at a time. That means: A.) you can't overkill it with more than one creature, and B.) you can't trick an opponent to kill their own board, as the trigger is a may ability, so they'll just opt out after you give him indestructible.

Grothama goes well with Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist in 1v1 commander. Swing with Mirri, your opponent has to either block the giant 10/8 or try and kill Mirri. Then on your opponent's turn they can only attack with one creature, nowhere near enough to kill Grothama unless it's an eldrazi or something else that big.

I have helm of the host in my atraxa deck. It gets out of control really fast

That's an Alaskan Bull Worm. Even has Druid's Call making a bunch of little Sandy's n' shit.

Myojin of Life's Web and Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant are really good after you draw a ton of cards.

When are you going to show us your Akiri/Bruse Tarl deck? The Boros need you to regain their honor! 😉 Btw. great episode! I haven’t watched it yet, but i know it’s going to be!

Grothama doesn’t need to die. It needs to leave the battlefield. You can as well bounce it to your hand. Or may be exile it somehow after doing DMG to it.

All the creature power but no interaction? How do we remove threats? I need more!

All the fight triggers on that are concurrent right? So each creature would fight, state-based actions would be checked, and if Grothama dies after the first one or two, the rest won't fight him? I mean the video occasionally talks about massively overswinging for more card draw, does it work like that, or like I described in the first sentence?

Grothama is the Green God we all deserve. 🙌👏🙏🙇

If enemy attacks it,can i block with any other creature?

you didn't mention things like Temur Sabertooth or Conjurer's Closet! Blinking or picking up Grothama (especially at instant speed) is super powerful

I just finished building my Grothama deck. Let me tell you how excited I am to play it. In particular one card is my favorite. That card... is Predatory Urge. The wurm eats itself and I draw 20 cards!

Also wasn't there an artifact that let you sacrifice something to draw cards equal to its power?

Pattern of rebirth would be great in here.

Hey Jumbo, what about Elemental Resonance, for mana? It's a 2GG aura that gives you mana equal to the enchanted creature's mana cost, at your pre combat mainphase. And Sporeback Troll. 3G for a Graft 2 creature, that has "1G: Regenerate target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it".

I started my own after it got spoiled I would like to suggest cards like combo attack this enables grothama to fight its self kinda along with another high powered creature but it is fun nonetheless and super budget would recommend a build

I made this deck and tried it today. VERY VERY fun. 7 games. My opponents drew 0 cards and I drew +50 from Grothama!

Probably has already been addressed beforehand, but I'm posting this for ease of searching. Death isn't the required path. Flicker that big guy, or bounce him and cast him.

As a semi joke, you forgot Mono Green's only single target, 2 card combo boardwipe. Tempting Licid + Engulfing Slagworm. :3

Keep in mind it's not a death trigger, but a leaves a battlefield trigger. Too bad there are no blinking effects in green...

I'm surprised you didn't mention Conjurer's Closet with Grothama and Indestructible, his ability does state he only has to LEAVE the battlefield, for the card draw.

On mana: I tested Sasaya, Mana Reflection, Karametra's Acolyte, & Omnath(helps with Power too later on). Not all of these are needed, but they help at playing those cards you are going to be drawing. Or in Omnath's case just make it really fucking big.

Isn't protean hulk banned in edh?

Why not use Temur Sabertooth? Grothama's ability doesn't say "dies" is says "leaves the battlefield"

Dragon Throne of Tarkir doesn't let your entire board state turn into a 50 card draw. Once the first creature who recieved +10/+10 fights Grothama, this will cause Grothama to die before the rest of the fights resolve. You'll draw 10 cards, plus the power of the first fighter.

I feel like some first strike equipment might be interesting to deter your opponents from using his ability or make it more challenging

temur sabre tooth would be funny when they choose to fight the wurm send it back to ur hand & they all swing & miss ;)

how will we get the commander back from the graveyard, after it dies? i dont get it

He doesn't need to "die" which is important as it allows you to send it back to the command zone

Bear vs Wurm vs Hydra vs Elf. Who will win you decide who the best mono green commander.

Hi Jumbo! Wow, there are so many interesting ideas in this video. But wouldn't it be nice to add some regeneration, like Yavimaya Hollow or Asceticism to prevent your enemies from drawing while keeping your own creatures that fought Grothama? Oh and lifelink can be crazy too. Imagine getting 10 life for EVERY creature fighting it! Well, obviously, infect is also really strong with this one. Why not also flicker this thing with Voyager Staff :D

Grothama doesnt need to die, it needs to leave the bettlefield. See conjurers closet.

I built a tribal Wurm deck with him as the commander. Yeah there are better options for that route but it was on theme. Didn't play the deck for long because my play group actually found a way to whine about the deck being "too powerful". *Sigh* But I remember in one game i had Grothoma out as well as Impervious Greatwurm. Greatwurm was equipped with Inquisitor's Flail. Guess what happened? I drew 32 cards and my Greatwurm remained. But I also wanted to yolo a bit so I cast Momentous Fall as well to draw another 16 cards and gain 16 life. Ah, silly green stuff.

If you have trample against your own creatures won't that still deal the difference to yourself?

You can force damage to it then flicker it since it’s leave the battlefield not dies

What are some cuts you can make to get this down to $100-150 and still fuck with your opponent?

Get that loot

Guys, why not fecundity for overkill?

Could you make a commander deck tech for vaevictis asmadi, the dire pleeeass!!!

Do Goreclaw next. We need bear tribal!

I feel like instead of ‘destined to die’ you missed an opportunity to use a ‘born to die’ reference however great video!

+Jumbo Commander Nice idea. That said, there is a slight problem with your Heroic Intervention plan: Grothama is a may trigger. The decision to fight or not is made when the ability resolves. You can't ask your opponent if they're going to have their whole team fight your general and slam Heroic Intervention for the blowout. At best, you'll get a bunch of weenies or 1-2 mid-sized guys (more if you have pump) before you have to play Heroic Intervention AND you have to hope they don't have removal to ruin your day. However, you forgot to mention an obscure green card called Storm Seeker. How funny would it be pretend you can't stop them from drawing an obscene number of cards and then go "Oh by the way. Take 25 damage, and you're dead."

Multani, Maro Sorcerer I think has a place in this deck

"i've a dream"

Heroic Intervention doesnt really help you that your opponent "sacrificed" his whole board. The fight trigger goes in the stack and you decide on resolution of the trigger if they fight or not. You have to cast Heroic Intervention before that, so they most likely won't fight your GROTHAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

My version of this deck is so gross, my playgroup hates playing against it and only two players have drawn cards from killing Grothoma in the year that I’ve had the deck.

I know if I built this I would focus more on the first ability. It grows infinitely large with a Vigor in play

helm should just be in all commander decks

States when it leave the battlefield So flicker fun?

IT'S TIMMY TIME!!!!

Well I men, he doesn't need to die, you could just blink him, then you get to keep him around and draw the cards.

plz make a eldrazi deck tech

I seriously thought Yavimaya Elder was just a head with other heads as hands...

My two recommendations are: Death's Presence and Repopulate

I’d be interested to see an attempt of mono-green mill forcing people to kill this and losing cards in their library

Is Pariah Shield banned in Commander?

I need to put this guy in my enrage deck so my enragers can fight him. That would be awesome.

Do the Kenrith s!