That was a deck I wanted to build with cards that I had on hand, so a few substitutions were made to the non-creature spells when I copied his general list. Notability, I did not have a Colossal Majesty, so I replaced it with Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood. I figured the ramp and draw would prove useful.
The deck had been working just fine with Saryth in command, but last week I decided to experiment with Gilanra in the command zone. As a partner, I pulled Kodama of the East Tree out of my trade binder. It felt odd to use Gilanra alone, but I didn't want to re-do the mana base to incorporate a new colour.
That game turned out to be pretty wild. Paying 6 to cast Pathbreaker Ibex then dropping Unnatural Growth for free makes this Timmy smile. As soon as I got home, I decided to double down on the duo and rework the deck around them. I haven't made a deck with a mana curve this lopsided since 2012. There was a point that I almost put Brutalizer Exarch in the list out nostalgia. Almost.
Some cards I want to call out are:
- Sol Talisman - Think this card is more at home here that it was in various artifact decks I have built. If I don't draw into it early in the game, I can just cheat it into play with Kodama the next time I play a land.
- Quirion Ranger - Untap Gilanra for extra mana and card draw, put the land back into play the next you play literally any permanent thanks to Kodama.
- Caller of the Pack - IIRC, token's that are copies of a non-token permanent, also copy the CMC of that permanent. Attack with caller, put two more high CMC creatures into play, YES PLEASE!
- Threats Undetected - This takes 10 mana, but here it goes. Cast Threats. While searching cast Panglacial Wurm out of the library. Kodama trigger is on the stack now. Choose my 4 creatures. My opponents now have to pick knowing that one of these cards could be going onto the battlefield once that trigger resolves. It's not perfect, but it is fun.
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