Hello and welcome to Daily Commander!

Today we are going to be looking at Borborygmos!

Borborygmos is a seven mana 6/7 with trample and whenever he does combat damage to a player you put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The leader of the Gruul clan is very straightforward in what they want to do, and that is to go face and make your things bigger.

So why would we want to deny him his true nature? In fact we should be working on ways to make what he does even better by adding some counter synergies whenever we can find them.

While getting +1/+1 counters on your creatures is not that hard in green and red, one of the things that is a little tougher is finding ways to give the creatures with those counters benefits.

Battlefront Krushok makes it so that only one creature can block your attacking creature with +1/+1 counters, which for Borborygmos is really good because something with that high of a mana cost is a chump block magnet.

With trample that means that your creatures will be swinging even harder next turn or even extra combat shenanigans can make the damage even more effective.

Another thing we have to do is to support Borborygmos, again because that high mana cost is not doing him any favors.

Rhythm of the Wild is a solid enchantment to have for this deck because it protects our creatures from counter spells and gives our creatures Riot, which can count as haste or +1/+1 counters.

This allows Borborygmos to immediately attack when he enters play and swing at the player who has their shields down, which with a decent amount of ramp in our deck should be at a decent clip.

There is also a way to make sure that when we start accumulating counters on our creatures that we protect them.

Hindervines is a way to protect our creatures from things that may be a bit bigger because it prevents combat damage done by creatures with no +1/+1 counters.

So even if our opponents have anthem effects on a go wide strategy and manage to chump our biggest creatures, we can still protect them. Fogs are interesting to run in a pure aggro deck because no one expects them.

The best way that we win the game is via combat, so the way we take advantage of this is by making sure we keep our creatures getting bigger.

Kalonian Hydra, when paired with something like Rhythm of the Wild, will keep making our creatures bigger and bigger each combat.

Add something like Fangs of Kalonia, which gives a +1/+1 counter on a target creature then doubles the number of counters on creatures given counters this way or can be cast with Overload to give all of creatures counters then double them, the counters can get out of hand.

Of course there are the counter doublers like Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, or Doubling Season which, again, makes things even crazier.

This is the ideal way we approach Borborygmos, which is going to be difficult but something that any player, old or new, can understand and learn how to play.

Thank you for reading, see you tomorrow for the next Daily Commander!

Peace,

From, J.M. Casual