Commander

Gluntch, the Bestower

Global commander stats

All Selesnya commanders

390 Wins

1195 Losses

Archetype profile

How Gluntch, the Bestower plays

Top 1% for group hug and top 6% for politics.

151 decks from 131 players. Mostly Human creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Top 6% +2.6

Group hug Top 1% +19.4

Stax and control Top 15% +2.3

Group slug Top 25% +0.5

How your creatures win

Big creatures Below average -2.0

Fight Below average -0.5

Tokens Top 48% -4.3

Tribal Below average Human, 7.4

Voltron Below average -3.3

+1/+1 counters Top 25% -2.2

Aristocrats Below average -0.7

Blink Below average -0.4

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Top 31% +1.7

Graveyard and reanimator Below average -0.9

Landfall Top 22% +0.3

Artifacts Top 15% +1.5

Enchantress Below average -0.6

Mill Top 40% -0.0

Lifegain Below average -2.5

Bars show where this commander sits among every profiled commander, the tick is the middle. The number is extra cards of that archetype per deck against the average deck in the same colors; tribal shows the main creature type and its count per deck.

Measured in tracked games

Spells cast per opponent's turn 0.07 Average 0.07, from 145 games.

Tokens created per game 12.1 Average 11.7, from 145 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 3.0 Average 4.0, from 423 games.

Commanders that play like Gluntch, the Bestower

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Ms. Bumbleflower Group hug top 1% and Politics top 7%

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Shadrix Silverquill Group hug top 2% and Politics top 8%

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler Group hug top 1% and Enchantress top 7%

Measured weekly from full decklists and tracked games. How we measure

Overview

Summary

Gluntch, the Bestower is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 1,595 recorded Playgroup games, winning 24% of them (390–1195) at an Elo of 1,541, ranking #1311 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 538733 damage dealt and 0.47 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 12 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Gluntch, the Bestower's win rate?

Gluntch, the Bestower has a 24% win rate across 1595 recorded Playgroup games (390 wins, 1195 losses).

How long do winning games with Gluntch, the Bestower take?

Wins with Gluntch, the Bestower take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: 23 days.

How many decks use Gluntch, the Bestower?

697 decks list Gluntch, the Bestower as their commander on Playgroup, of which 413 have played at least one recorded game.

Gluntch, the Bestower Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1311

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1541

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Global Elo trend

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Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 538733

Average commander damage per game 7

Average poison counters given per game 10

Average kills per game 0.47

Average turn length 3 minutes

No. decks for this commander 697

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 413

No. games played with this commander 1595

Total hours played 23 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1653	Kobold	11	7	64 %
2	1595	PapaTriste	26	11	44 %
3	1548	DrNaughty	1	1	100 %
4	1546	ChunkierSea1	4	2	63 %
5	1546	RealF11	2	2	100 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Gluntch, the Bestower wins, 46.81% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

46.81%

Alternative

29.43%

Commander Damage

12.77%

Non Combat Damage

3.9%

Mill

2.84%

Combo

2.48%

Poison

1.77%

Avg win turn 9.4 based on 391 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Gluntch, the Bestower

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Gluntch, the Bestower decks that leave them out.

+5.8 pp

Top card: Sandwurm Convergence

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Sandwurm Convergence 45 games	+5.8 pp	45
2	Privileged Position 51 games	+3.4 pp	51
3	Reliquary Tower 171 games	+1.5 pp	171
4	Brushland 123 games	+0.5 pp	123
5	Heartwood Storyteller 144 games	+0.4 pp	144

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Gluntch, the Bestower wins 32.04% of games from position 1 and 0.0% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

32.04% n=426

Seat 2

25.19% n=405

Seat 3

20.25% n=358

Seat 4

19.05% n=273

Seat 5

24.49% n=49

Seat 6

0.0% n=3

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Gluntch, the Bestower wins 27.64% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

27.64% n=662

1 mulligan

22.62% n=221

2 mulligans

24.65% n=71

3 mulligans

10.53% n=19

4 mulligans

0.0% n=5

5 mulligans

0.0% n=2

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Gluntch, the Bestower 3.9/5 on average, across 1058 self-reports.

3.9 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Gluntch, the Bestower wins, opponents flag the game as salty 35.5% of the time across 397 tracked wins.

35.5 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Gluntch, the Bestower. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.