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Gameplan
Sunastian Falconer is a Gruul value commander whose only printed ability taps for two colorless, so the deck is built as a big-mana ramp pile that uses that extra mana (plus traditional ramp) to deploy oversized threats ahead of schedule. You spend the early game ramping and developing mana, then slam fatties, X-spells, and Eldrazi to overwhelm the table. Combat damage and overwhelming board states close it out.
Strengths
Weaknesses
- The commander itself does nothing but tap for mana — zero card advantage or protection
- Summoning sick the turn it lands, and dies to any removal that hits your ramp
- Gruul lacks card draw and interaction relative to other color pairs
- Colorless mana can't pay colored costs, limiting flexibility versus a normal dork
- Slow against dedicated combo decks that ignore the board
Key Cards
- Cultivate — Cheap fixing and ramp that keeps the gameplan smooth in a colorless-heavy mana base.
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger — A premier payoff for all the colorless mana Sunastian and your rocks produce.
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth — Refills your empty hand, solving Gruul's card-draw problem while being a finisher.
- Heroic Intervention — Cheap blanket protection for your board and ramp engine against wraths and removal.
- Eldrazi Monument — Turns a wide board into an evasive, indestructible alpha-strike force.
- Greater Good — Converts your fat creatures into the card advantage Gruul desperately needs.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana rocks and dorks (Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves) so Sunastian's colorless joins a powerful ramp engine, and lean into payoffs that exploit colorless mana like the Eldrazi titans. Shore up Gruul's weaknesses with card-advantage engines (Greater Good, Beast Whisperer, The Great Henge) and protection (Heroic Intervention, Tyvar's Stand). Top it off with a haymaker finisher such as Craterhoof Behemoth or Finale of Devastation to convert your mana lead into a kill.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Casting Eldrazi titans and grinding the table out with recursion and annihilator-style value
- ▸Going wide with tokens plus Eldrazi Monument or Craterhoof Behemoth for an alpha strike
- ▸Big X-spells like Comet Storm or Banefire to burn out opponents
- ▸Voltron-style trample beatdown with overstatted Gruul threats
Archetypes
- Big Mana Ramp — Sunastian's colorless mana accelerates into expensive top-end threats faster than a standard curve.
- Eldrazi Stompy — His output directly pays toward casting colorless Eldrazi titans and devoid creatures.
- +1/+1 Counters / Stompy — Gruul beaters and ramp let you build a dominant board and swing for lethal.
- Landfall — Heavy ramp synergizes with payoffs like Avenger of Zendikar and Scute Swarm.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
