Magic: The Gathering Standard Simic Ghalta Deck List: Primal Hunger for 2 Mana (October 2026)
A 60-card Standard Simic build centers on Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Slumbering Trugge and power 4 or greater creatures.
A Standard Simic (green-blue) deck built around Ghalta, Primal Hunger is the subject of a deck presentation. The list is green first with blue added, and it is aimed at players who like huge creatures. It also plays Savage Compulsion from Reality Fracture.
Ghalta, Primal Hunger: How the Deck Works
Ghalta is a green Dinosaur with 12/12 trample and mana value 12. Its cost drops by generic mana equal to the total power of creatures you control, so it can be cast for just two green mana if things go well.
The deck's second theme is creatures with power 4 or greater. Wilderness Pioneer adds 1 mana when it enters and draws a card when another creature with power 4 or greater enters.
Slumbering Trugge and Quantum Riddler in the Simic Build
Slumbering Trugge is a Plant Beast with an X in its cost and fixed 6/6 stats. Cast with X below 3, it enters tapped with paralysis counters equal to 3 minus X. At X=3 it enters untapped with no counters, and 4 mana total lets it fight immediately.
Quantum Riddler can be cast with warp for a low mana cost and draws a card itself. It and Scrap Shooter count as power 4 or greater creatures in the list.
Garruk's Uprising is an enchantment that draws a card when a power 4 or greater creature enters and gives creatures trample.
Simic Standard Deck List (60 Cards)
Creatures (21)
- 4 Llanowar Elves
- 4 Wilderness Pioneer
- 3 Scrap Shooter
- 4 Quantum Riddler
- 2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
- 4 Slumbering Trugge
Spells (12)
- 4 Savage Compulsion
- 2 Meltwalker Dissipation
- 3 Repulsion Mutation
- 3 Garruk's Uprising
Lands (27)
- 4 Breeding Pool
- 4 Blooming Blast-Tribe (as translated)
- 2 Maze Garden (as translated)
- 2 Barsinsee (as translated)
- 14 Forest
- 1 Island
Sideboard (15)
- 3 Wolf Tactics
- 3 Smuggler's Surprise
- 3 Spell Pierce-type card
- 2 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
- 2 Keen-Eyed Curator
- 2 Lizard Hunter of the Swamp
Savage Compulsion and the Reality Fracture Planeswalker Theme
Savage Compulsion is a 2-mana instant that deals damage equal to a creature's power. It can target creatures and planeswalkers.
The article says Reality Fracture has a planeswalker theme, and that decks using planeswalkers have greatly increased in Standard.
What it means for players
- Players who like big creatures get a full 60-card list with a 27-land base to test.
- Ghalta's cost reduction rewards a wide board of high-power creatures.
- Savage Compulsion gives the deck a way to hit planeswalkers.
What is still unknown
- Tournament results or win rates for the deck.
- Card prices.
- Exact English names for several cards in the list, which are marked as translated.
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