Omnath, Locus of Rage
RGLegendary Creature — Elemental

Omnath, Locus of Rage

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The Commander

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 5/5 red and green Elemental creature token.

Whenever Omnath or another Elemental you control dies, Omnath deals 3 damage to any target.

Guide

Gameplan

Ramp into Omnath, then flood the board with lands to generate 5/5 Elemental tokens off every landfall trigger. Convert that wide board into reach and damage by sacrificing or losing Elementals to ping faces, then close with a big land-fueled swing or a sacrifice loop. Every land matters twice: as a body and as a future bolt.

Strengths

  • Dual payoff: lands make 5/5 bodies AND turn dying Elementals into burn damage
  • Excellent at grinding back from board wipes since each replayed land rebuilds tokens
  • Strong color identity for ramp, land recursion, and explosive mana
  • Can win without combat by sacrificing tokens for direct damage

Weaknesses

  • Heavy dependence on the commander — without Omnath you make no tokens or damage
  • Seven mana and clunky if you stumble on ramp
  • Vulnerable to graveyard hate and exile-based removal that stops land recursion
  • Token swarm dies to a single board wipe, and Omnath's death trigger only hits one target

Key Cards

  • ScapeshiftSacrifices all your lands to fetch a pile back, triggering a wall of landfall tokens at once.
  • Splendid ReclamationReturns every land from your graveyard to the battlefield simultaneously for a massive landfall burst.
  • Tireless ProvisionerAdds extra landfall value and treasure to chain more lands per turn.
  • Lotus CobraTurns each land drop into extra mana to fuel more land plays and ramp into Omnath fast.
  • Goblin BombardmentFree sacrifice outlet that converts your Elementals into direct damage, weaponizing Omnath's death trigger.
  • Avenger of ZendikarCompounds the token strategy and benefits from the same landfall engine.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and extra land drops — Exploration, Burgeoning, Azusa, Lotus Cobra, and fetchlands — so every turn produces multiple tokens. Lean into a sacrifice combo package with Goblin Bombardment plus repeatable token recursion and a payoff like Warstorm Surge or Purphoros, God of the Forge to make damage inevitable. Finally, include protection (Heroic Intervention, Deflecting Swat) and a Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede to convert the wide board into a single-turn kill.

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 wide with an army of 5/5 Elemental tokens
  • Sacrifice Elementals to outlets like Goblin Bombardment to burn out the table
  • Mass landfall via Scapeshift or Splendid Reclamation to build an overwhelming board
  • Overrun-style anthem effects turning tokens into lethal alpha strike

Archetypes

  • LandfallEvery land drop spawns a 5/5, making fetchlands and land recursion the core engine.
  • TokensOmnath floods the board with 5/5 Elementals for go-wide aggression.
  • AristocratsSacrificing Elementals turns the death trigger into repeatable burn and a win condition.
  • ComboSac outlets plus land-return spells like Splendid Reclamation enable explosive damage loops.

Combos

Combos via Commander Spellbook.

Related Commanders

Same color identity (GR), by popularity.

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