Decklist
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Let talk about the Deck for a minute. The power level is not CEDH you will note I don't include cards like Notion Thief for this reason though it would be backbreaking with all the wheels. For a long time I wanted a lands matter Landstrom type Deck I built Aesi extra turns and that was great but I wanted more. This deck combines the ideas from my prosh cradel storm with great auroura and aesi into one deck that gets to play and tutor all the cool lands matter creatures. You get to play 40 lands and Garth helps fill in the gaps wuite well. Its a mostly green deck in disguise and the most common way I kill is Devastation hoof into zombies form field of the dead but mostly it swings. Bitter ordeal also is a hot SB card vs combo players that i could legit probably get to 300 and use as a kill if i added scapeshift tech but I like the look at all my sweet creatures midrange feel to the deck.
Edit 1 Uploaded some images from my only game today just to show how nutty it looks ones the end of t3 then t4 before and after TGA when the gears are moving. Turn 4 I was able to generate insane value swing with gnawbone for over 20 tokens and auora away the board and essentially play another long turn. t5 kill since I use combat step and not a storm card.
Edit 2 Cards on my radar
1 Wasteland > in 1v1 auto include here probably only just good enough in general since if i want to tutor for mass land kill I want strip-mine anyway but i could see going to 41 lands not lower though its lands matter and we want 40+
reanimate > cards go to my yard having a 1 mana way to get them back after pod sacs NO and EE sac wheels etc seems pretty damn good
Force of negation > more free pitch counters garth in the command zone can get things back or draw or kill creatures or enchants he cannot however counter This is playable
Yawgwin > not good enough early seems win more late but its yawgwin and post TGA could be good if not for the fact my previous land drops on turn counted was in the deck before got cut.
Notion thief - This would be broken in this list and make it a tier above where i want it i cant play this if your in full power go ahead auto include cedh style.
Earthcraft- Dont always have a basic land but when you do its like a geas cradle tho with haste I can use my guys sometimes anyway and I don't have lots of basic lands nor do i want ot be fetching them despite the massive green skew in the deck
Endurance- The decks all green This is SB tech vs combo
Bitter ordeal> my gravestorm is actually insane with landrops gnawbone and tithe and dockside tokens etc SB tech vs combo
Slyvan Scrying - Gets good lands maybe even worth cutting a land for!
Weakest cuttable cards > gitrog monster > Courser of kruphix
Both have high synergy and just lower overall quality though loam dredge with gitrog is nice it doesn't happen as much you normally would rather pod into benthic or fea cursed and NO aesi. Coursair has actaully been pretty good it just looks lower power. Next test might be gitrog for Force of negation or reanimate
Changlog
- Gitrog + reanimte
First game with the card never saw it would have rather had it than trog at any time killed table turn 5 with 32 hasted creatures and 15 lands on board inculding cratle i had to dig halfway through my deck to recut the force of vigor i tutored early to deal with a sol ring > gilded lotus guy.
- Snow-Covered Swamp +slyvan Scrying I don't like going under 40 lands but this replaces one
- Coursair of Kruphix + Ancient copper Dragon wanted another pod 6 drop this is fun and useful since I can get haste and abuse korvold
Epic game ad nuas player fizzle on a final fortune misplaying a turn 2 kill with crypt ring and vault slopping fast main phase vamp for ad nuas main phases for no reason final fortune into messing up oracle combo. Kozliek meanwhile opened crypt dork and my rhystic studt is slow then ugiend away mange to stall him out casting rift 4 times in one game and one ring into crathoof kill like turn 10 in a grind fest from behind. EE into dockside to use korovid and draw 7 while ramping 7 to get back into the game. Again pilot was greedy didnt play his counterpspell commander the turn before i killed him he dropped ulamo and butcher of truth instead into mana rocks
Only new card drawn coper dragon if it connected I had a win it got nuked but it was a god line i had
Dragon has been a house perfect 2nd 6 drop. Deck feeling tight and fun
Changelog 9/4/2023
- Smothering tithe - Slow killable and bad at times and feels too broken with wheel and twister and windfall
+ Nissa, Resurgent Animist great landfall card I had not even seen.
9/5/2023
small change
- Elves of deep shadow + elvish mystic.
way more green in this deck than black running both could be fine but the black mana feels like a pinging boreal druid most times. As much as I would love to ad more dorks or lands the list is getting tight and if anything needs more control cards not more mana it makes plenty of mana.
- Watery Grave
+ oboro - Still a blue source with engine upside don't really need shocks in my splash colors that are not green sources.
- Overgrown tomb I know another land but all the cards are so good and the shock damage is not great when I fetch as often as I do
+ orcish Bowmasters this cards been insane everywhere I have it and here with the wheels its great and I needed more 2 drops anyway and I'm glad to be back at 25 creatures.
-Force of will - Cant or dont want to pitch this card enough but on the upside I free a slot
+ lightning Greaves - More cmc 2 filling out the curbe there a bit. More haste to enable garth Lines and faster dragon hits and mana dork haste in combo lines etc.
Card Discussion
Fetchlands > dual lands > few basics
The fetch lands are some of the best cards in the deck as its landfall theme White red and black are a splash here and even blue is not super heavy this is a green deck in disguise but despite that we want all colors online for garth. Also we need the mountain in play for anger generally I want to be able to tap for all colors and lots of green. I play and tutor legends into play making otowara insane here as well as boseju also recurrable with loam. Field of the dead is a main win condition in this deck and why we have snow covered forest and forest. Also this gives 3 targets for prismatic vista which is low given crucible etc but the downside of hard drawing plain mountain swamp outweighed trying to make vista always work when 9/10 times its not an issue at all. Wasteland is missing but should be in the deck most likely. minamo untaps garth and ring the rainbow lands are self explanatory. Urborg and yavimaya making fetchlands tap is huge for many phases of the game. Last but certainly not least cradle is the best land in the deck making insane amounts of mana.
Creatures-
Mana dorks > This deck plays very few 2 drops and wants to mull for a turn 1 mana accelration to quickly land cards like oracle of muldaya to start our landfall snowball. We often want to EE or NO them away into AESI or azusa type cards quickly ... more to come
No deathrite shaman? - I dont want to exile my lands in this deck and others dont always have or play them t1 my dork must make mana t2.
I liked the idea of elves of deep shadow since garth but since im using duals that was a stupid logic and the green mana is just better so we run all the ones that can make green+ t2.
at 2 CMC we have lotus cobra the land drop king of 2 drops dockside which is not only broken but one of our token gens to really get extra value off Korvold its also ETB so great for pod and saccing. Bloom Tender out 2 drop dork taps for 5 with garth and we do have a haste outlet. Eeven sans garth it taps for 2+ most the time past turn 3.
3cc
Nissa, Resurgent Animist - Lotus cobra that gets us an creature card the second activation quite awesome I have elves and elementals in the deck
Azusa, Lost but Seeking - Land drop queen makes the turns super silly
Eternal Witness - ETB pod regrowth amazing here
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove - Half azusa half lantern we continue to play extra lands and fixed out colors as well as getting anger out mountain.
4cc
Oracle of mul daya- Posterchild for the deck extra lands drops and card advantage off the top snowballs with other extra land drop cards hard exactly what we want in play turn 2-3
Omnath, Locus of Creation- Land drop tech free mana like a lotus cobra and extra life to fight all the fetch damage as well as a nice ping that occasionaly cleans up PW's for us and the damage is relevant as I do swing to win here.
Anger- Haste outlet great to sac off TGA doesn't nuke GYs best mas haste outlet for the deck i tested fervor and others this is much smoother.
5cc
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King - Value engine with fetch lands like our other guys somtimes have to sac a land or something to cast but the fetchland value is insane and his interaction with treasure tokens makes his upide value game ending powerful and they him being giant flyer is just a bonus.
Tatyova, Benthic Druid- Lil aesi with life gain which we desperately need amazing 5 drop the draw on landrop are the most broken triggers for this deck
Titania, Protector of Argoth - Great for pod makes tokens for cradle and they are pig adn kill PW's pressure players etc great card
Garth One-Eye - God is this card fun from geyser when your out of gas to controlling creatures or artifacts and enchants or regrowing a good card he's always got powerful and relevant plays a great backup for a gassed hand and with haste can be legit scary. Super fun to have control cards in my command zone with a build playing mostly mana and less control
6cc
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait- The real commander of the deck draws for cards and exploration effect sign me up. A perfect hand in this deck would got turn 1 dork turn 2 sol ring natrual order dork into aesi play a fetchland. That sets up a t3 that could run away with a game. Even if you ate swords here you already replaced the 2 cards instantly and the land in play is safer than your elf was and you ate a removal card.
Ancient Copper Dragon - super fun card makes insane tokens having haste in the deck makes him better if I'm not killing when he swings the extra tokens are normally enough to end a game and I'm not above a post combat TGA to "control" a board or keep trying to grind value. TGA loves treasure tokens and zombies plant tokens etc
7cc -
Avenger of Zendikar - Cradle enabler Tga enabler Hoof kill enabler I have tons of lands 14 by turn 5 is not uncommon.
Old Gnawbone - Like brass dragon the tokens give enough value to seal a game off a single swing. Also even with no haste he triggers off my other creatures.
8CC
Craterhoof > one of 2 main kills along with final devastation often combed together if I don't have mass tokens.
All the creatures fit the build and have massive synergy making paying them together loads of fun next sections to come later.
Instant's
Brainstorm - I already don't run enough blue pitch for my FOW so despite the high land count I've even considered ponder but this with all the fetch lands and instant speed is too good not to run
Cyclonic Rift- Catch all answer we make big mana to overload it quick garth can regrow it when were playing form behind a bomb here I don't like most wraths as I'm a dork creature engine deck the one sided nature and dealing with everything its the best wipe we can run
Enlightend tutor- One of the only white splashes for more early rings and crypts as well as crucoble / exploration when they are better. Also one ring is a card thats just always OP here it cant untap as many times as dedicated ring but the protection from all can be a time walk in this meta with a you never gas again cherry on top
Fierce gaurdianship- Free counter we do play garth
Force of vigor- Best pitch card in the deck early crypt ring is an issue artifacts can be an issue you can always pitch green value town with early wheels making them more one sided best disenchant in the deck best pitch card too
Force of will- almost want a few more filter blue cards just to pitch it more tho i can hard cast it here later we make so much mana.
Mana Drain- UU is actually not always a given but this cards tempo is so strong even with less colorless to feed its still a bomb and ill use it early for just a little mana to drop my landtech engines quickly.
Mystical tutor - Grabs anything relevant or black tutor for anything 1 cc tutor wheels free counters free disenchats rift
Nature's Claim- One of the best disenchants ever in our main color
Path to exile- When you are in white so you play swords and path
Swords to plowshares- Yep my white splash just kill things and tutors sol ring
VAmpric tutor- My black splash is not much different go get any card 1 mana.
Sorcery-
Demonic tutor- Staple tutor all i sue black for here is consistency
Eldritch evoltuion > baby natrual order turns my small landfall and dorks into bigger badder versions up my curve.
Green Sun's Zenith- Tutors mana dorks or mid tier oracle azusa type cards early Aesi type cards midgame and hoof to end game always good
Imperial Seal- see vamp and demonic
Life from the Loam- Land recursion and gy fill for land recursion second cricble effect maybe even ebtter in this build than crucible gets back strip mine fetchlands my cycle ability lands
Natural Order- Used to grab aesi asap and start the landfall engine most games later its hoof or avenger or whatever you need to end a game korvold if you just played a dockside for 12 whatever
Reanimate- TGA leave gy alone i wheel i sac dudes its also usable on other players for one mana having a tutorable reanimte for 1 is really nice lose your aesi right away ? bring him back for one like nothing happend
Sylvan Scrying- Green land demonic tutor cradle most times sometimes a fetch or the color you need etc always been a good draw lots of utlity lands too
Windfall- With i drop all my lands comes I refill my hands wheels and exploration been a thing I've loved forever
Wheel of fortune- More wheels
Time twister- Keep wheeling
Time spiral - Big wheel now but win this deck normally cheaper or ramps mana via cradle
The great aurora- The card that makes the deck so cool a green world purge that time spirals Mutiple times usebale as a board wipe with your back agisnt the wall instantly wins off most casts and when ti doesn its like you get a brand new super turn after gimping all oppoents the whole deck is built to resolve this card as a game ending effect
Artifacts
Mox diamond - Free mana and i have lots of lands
Mana crypt - Broken mana free
Sol ring - broken mana at 1
Crucible of worlds- Combos with all my landrop tech value engine
Birthing Pod- The deck has amazing targets at every single cmc and this cards a house here often tutored for its so good
The one ring- This is in every commander deck I own now its that good Then time walk has one me alot of games and dropping it early is enough CA to have any deck win. As much a staple as crypt and ring IMO
Enchantments
Exploration- The og extra land drop I will often tutor this t1 over crypt or ring in land heavy hands with potential to combo or refill. amazing here.
Mystic remora - Card advantage engine staple
Rhystic Study - Card advantage staple easy turn 2 cruve out in mana dork deck.
What I want to test tonight cut the dragons and greaves
+ wasteland
+rejuvinating springs
+ elves of deep shadow
Back to 25 creatures and 40 lands
Edit
- Hallowed fountain - Just added a blue green soruce and trying to get some of these shocklands on splash colors out they hurt to much
+ ragavan nimble pilferer.
39 lands
26 creatures now
- elves of deep shadow + trade routes down to 25 creatures
Cards I'm looking at right now Reclamation Sage - due to having pod and creature sac things I've wanted this a few times.
- Korovold
+ corsair of kruphix This card was never bad when i had it and often my life total scares me and I love the top of deck effect. Korovold had some amazing upside when i could make treasures but as i cut lots of cards that did that he felt less powerful I considered Rec sage for bod and deserted temple to untap cradle but settled on this as I think its more focused on the area I'm weak which is before my land engines start flowing.
