The Commander
Trample
Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Slogurk.
Remove three +1/+1 counters from Slogurk: Return it to its owner's hand.
When Slogurk leaves the battlefield, return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Guide
Gameplan
Slogurk is a lands-matter value engine: mill or sacrifice lands to grow him fast, then bounce him to your hand to reload three lands and re-trigger landfall on the way back. You grind incremental advantage with land recursion and self-mill, eventually winning through a huge trampler or a landfall/land-sacrifice payoff.
Strengths
- Self-protecting commander that dodges removal by bouncing himself for three counters
- Turns graveyard lands into a renewable resource, fueling repeatable landfall and ramp
- Grows quickly and cheaply at three mana with evasive trample
- Synergizes with fetch lands, sacrifice lands, and self-mill that other commanders can't exploit
Weaknesses
- Needs three counters to bounce, so early disruption before he grows leaves him stuck
- Relies on graveyard interaction—vulnerable to graveyard hate like Rest in Peace
- Two colors limits access to broad interaction and combo pieces
- Can be grindy and slow to actually close games without a dedicated payoff
Key Cards
- Crucible of Worlds — Lets you replay lands milled or sacrificed, multiplying landfall and Slogurk counter triggers.
- Ramunap Excavator — A creature Crucible that turns fetch lands and sacrifice effects into engines.
- Splendid Reclamation — Returns every land from your graveyard at once, exploding your board and stacking counters on Slogurk.
- Scapeshift — Sacrifices many lands to find more, dumping fuel into the yard and triggering counters en masse.
- Lotus Cobra — Converts every land drop and recursion into a mana burst, accelerating your grindy game plan.
- Wrenn and Six — Repeatedly returns fetch lands, providing endless landfall and counter triggers each turn.
Upgrade Path
Add more cheap self-mill and sacrifice lands (fetches, Ramunap Ruins, Hostile Desert) plus recursion like Crucible and Ramunap Excavator to make the engine seamless. Lean into a true payoff—Avenger of Zendikar, Field of the Dead, or Scute Swarm—so your value converts to a kill. Finally, tighten ramp and protection (Heroic Intervention, fast mana rocks) to outrace graveyard hate and close before the grind stalls.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Swing with a massive trampling Slogurk after stacking counters
- ▸Landfall payoffs like Avenger of Zendikar or Scute Swarm flooding the board
- ▸Lotus Field / Field of the Dead and overwhelming land-based value engines
- ▸Big mana into game-ending X spells or Craterhoof-style finishers
Archetypes
- Lands — His counter triggers and land recursion reward sacrificing, milling, and replaying lands constantly.
- Landfall — Bouncing Slogurk to reload three lands enables explosive replay turns that feed landfall payoffs.
- Self-Mill — Milling lands into the yard both grows Slogurk and stocks resources to recur.
- Value/Midrange — He grinds incremental card and mana advantage through repeatable land recursion.
Combos
- Slogurk, the Overslime + Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Walk the Aeons
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Borborygmos Enraged + Slogurk, the Overslime + Surly Badgersaur
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite damage
- Slogurk, the Overslime + Surly Badgersaur + Seismic Assault
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite damage
- Slogurk, the Overslime + Six + Lotus Petal
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite storm count, Infinite self-discard triggers
- Slogurk, the Overslime + Mind Over Matter
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB, Infinite self-discard triggers
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GU), by popularity.
