Explosive Growth

Instant

Kicker (5) (You may pay an additional (5) as you play this spell.)

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If the kicker cost was paid, that creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

Dani3377 on Death Strike

1 year ago

Awesome! Inspiring Call was a feature card in the very first deck that I made in my whole magic playing experience, with Undergrowth Champion, Experiment One, Servant of the Scale and Avatar of the Resolute. PRetty sure I had Explosive Growth in there as well. Upvoted!

Zedester on Kick it up a notch

3 years ago

I see, im trying to take this deck n build on it while doing it figured i would these suggestions as well, Emblazoned Golem, Joraga Warcaller, Explosive Growth, Gift of Growth, Goblin Bushwhacker, Illuminate, Overload i think all cards within budget as well, but those will definitely replace so.e high cost creatures/spells

Bubbin on Tatyova

4 years ago

Your wanting to win with combat damage, so more cards like Rampant Growth , would be incredible here to fly through the deck. Explosive Growth

I suggest doing a search for the best cards like that, while removing creatures from the lower end, while you focus on ramping up to absolute units.

Wayward Swordtooth plus Overburden will hurt everyone but you. If you play sneaky and gain incremental life every turn people will just ignore you until you start playing Terastodon , Kederekt Leviathan , or things like that. A critical mass of those land fetches will make you throw down those bug guys consistently on like turn 4. You probably just need a few big finishers along side that Giant Adaphage in the sideboard.

Worst come to worst, those ramp spells Farseek , etc, are solid enough that so as long as you play green its not wasted money.

Playing Cloudreader Sphinx for 5cmc and passing turn is probably not ideal, maybe remove that guy?

Aiding on Stomp the Yard

6 years ago

Depending on your meta, my thoughts may be way off, but I can give you a couple thoughts.

Personally, I think you are trying to do cool things, but you are trying to do it in a non-disruptive way. The majority of your cards just exile from the yard without doing something proactive about it and a couple cards seem to go against this theme.

For example, Humility Makes Anafena a 1/1. For three mana. And this all. She doesn't exile anymore, she doesn't add counters, and the majority of your creatures are constellation based, so they then do nothing. Maybe you have some insane EtB deck with all sorts of mana abilities, but if that is the case, you could run Linvala, Keeper of Silence to turn off there fun while maintaining your own stuff.

I also think Archangel of Thune and Skybind are weak because you don't have a lot of little lifegain effects (think soul sister effects) and Skybind just blinks things. This could kill tokens or x/x dudes, but 5 mana for an almost do nothing on EtB enchantment feels.. lacking.

In terms of ramp/targeted removal, you are in green, so ramp is nuts and artifact removal is good. You also B/W so removal of creatures and enchantments is pretty great.

Ramp: Mana Dorks: - Lots of them. Jam them. 1 mana 1/1's that tap for mana that can be bigger in the early stages from an early anafenza swing (she says TAPPED creature. Not ATTACKING creature)

Llanowar Elves, Elves of Deep Shadow, Avacyn's Pilgrim, Elvish Mystic, Birds of Paradise (not technically a 1/1 but whatever), etc. They are all good and all produce colored mana, which is important in a mana hungry deck.

:Mana Rocks: 2-3 mana ones are best. The appropriate signets and the G/W Talisman is nice. Chromatic Lantern (if it isn't already in there) is an all-star. It is one of the normal picks with Enlightened tutor that I take, with Sol Ring and Courser being very close as well. You also could have a Sylvan Caryatid.

There is also 2-4 sorceries that get lands like Farseek, Explosive Growth Skyshroud Claim, etc. Oracle of Mul Daya also kinda fits here.

:Removal: ( my favorite) 2-4 mana seems to be the normal cost.

Snuff Out, Anguished Unmaking, Vindicate, Utter End, Malicious Affliction, (maybe, probably not because of exile) Council's Judgment, Silence the Believers, Nature's Claim for artifacts and whatnot if you feel it is needed.

Lastly, I think there is some kind of "lack" of wincon in here if your opponents have some form of lifegain or can keep Anafenza contained. There are some combos you can do like Linvala, Keeper of Silence + Nature's Revolt (the opponents lands can no longer tap for mana because they are creatures with a tap ability). Could also throw Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite into that mix to murder the lands as well. But some omissions/changes, you totally could have something else in there I am just not seeing and is a crazy wincon. I just don't see it :)

Sorry for a mega post.. But I just made an Anafenza deck that focused on the word "exile" and just wanted to play big scary things and win. So I recently found a LOT of cards to go into these kind of decks.

Omeros on zephramtripp

7 years ago

Here are some cheap ramp cards: Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Rampant Growth, Sylvan Scrying, Explosive Growth, Llanowar Elves, Quirion Elves, Elvish Mystic, Darksteel Ingot, Commander's Sphere, Sol Ring, Everflowing Chalice.

The ingot and sphere aren't great with only two colors in your deck but they're better than not having ramp at all. And they're dirt cheap.

For $3.50, Magistrate's Scepter is a strong and not too spendy option for your proliferate/counters plan. Take all the extra turns.

Long-Term Plans is a cheap tutor to pick up with the drawback of having to wait for the card. Nice for assembling whatever piece you need since it's not limited by card type.