Pollenbright Druid

Creature — Elf Druid

When Pollenbright Druid enters the battlefield, choose one —

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Combos

• Cytoplast Root-Kin + Pollenbright Druid

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Shazica on

1 year ago

I have a very similar deck with Reyhan, Last of the Abzan and Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker as commanders. I was looking into having Atraxa as a commander instead, but Atraxa is infamous for being a very strong creature that amasses tons of scary, unpredictable value - it is a poison deck? Is it a +1/+1 counters deck? Is it a superfriends deck? Most often, you will find that the other players have Rule 0-ed you as the archenemy before the game begins.

There are two things you can do about this. You can either rise up to the challenge, or you can change commander.

If you want to take on the challenge of constant Archenemy because you want to keep Atraxa, then you have multiple cards that are too weak. Some of which are Arcus Acolyte, the three Myojins, Pollenbright Druid, Murder, Magistrate's Scepter, Chromatic Lantern, Vivisurgeon's Insight, and Expand the Sphere for starters. There are probably 10-20 more I would consider cutting, since these are too casual for the level of play you're signaling with Atraxa. Instead, run low-mana spells like Nature's Lore, Night's Whisper, Fierce Guardianship, Heroic Intervention, Flawless Maneuver, Deadly Rollick, Mystic Remora, Cyclonic Rift, Negate, Swan Song, the WUBG shock lands with their fetches, the list goes on... This won't make your deck cEDH, this will make it more reliable, reactive, and consistent in answering most of your opponents stuff.

If you want to change commanders, you can go for Falco Spara, Pactweaver for value, Anafenza, the Foremost for aggressive, Ghave, Guru of Spores for combo, or the partner pairings of Cazur, Ruthless Stalker  ^Flip + Ukkima, Stalking Shadow, or Nikara, Lair Scavenger + Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel. All of these will force you to abandon a fourth color, but restriction breeds creativity...?

Side note 1: You can still run Atraxa in the 99, that is a more commonly accepted usage.

Side note 2: You have two Ivy Lane Denizen.

Cheiromancer on Counters Party Pezzent! (10/12 Euro/$)

1 year ago

You have enough ETB creatures that Roaring Primadox might be worth trying. Imagine a bouncing Pollenbright Druid!

ClockworkSwordfish on All Valuable Magic Cards I own H-Z

2 years ago

A number of these quite liberally push the boundaries of what's considered "valuable"... Pollenbright Druid? Minimus Containment? Really?

Corrosive_Cat on Oozing with Potential (?)

2 years ago

In this kinda deck, lot of people really like Winding Constrictor, though maybe unnecessary with Hardened Scales. Pollenbright Druid and Karn's Bastion could be a good shout for multiplying counters, as could Solidarity of Heroes. Polukranos, Unchained would be cool, too, if you had the space - would probably recommend getting rid of the couple of two-ofs and making more three or four-ofs, for constistency's sake.

Degaine on GW Modular

2 years ago

not enough creatures to make Winding Way playable enough. Most of the time you are going to hit 1 or even 0.

Travel Preparations could be cool, Pollenbright Druid is just a lord or enabler, same as Bloom Hulk. Maybe Basri's Acolyte or Aquastrand Spider?

Ainok Survivalist could be nice sb card.

wallisface on mono-green-proliferate-need-help

2 years ago

CloudFrog if you’re wanting to go down the route of running a playset of Nissa, Who Shakes the World, then I would suggest the following changes:

• ditch the other walkers, as well as all your enchants & artifacts.

• go up to 24 lands, and run around 8 mana dorks to accelerate your mana base.

• look to add 3-4 Rishkar, Peema Renegade as your primary way to add counters and bolster the team, while also providing you the ramp needed to get Nissa out early.

• I like your existing creatures of Duskshell Crawler, Evolution Sage, Llanowar Elves and Pollenbright Druid. The other ones i’m unsure on (though they’re not bad). I think Arboreal Grazer could be good as early ramp, as well as a defender for keeping Nissa safe.

• with all that ramp, 2-3 copies of Harmonize might be good. In any case, i wouldn’t bother with card draw outside of that card

Unlife on Pure Poison *Primer*

3 years ago

Boundless Realms could work well, it ramps a ton and with a few poison counters and Pollenbright Druid on the field, it could knock out a couple of players. Lifecrafter's Bestiary gives you a free scry, plus a way to draw cards. Beast Whisperer can also help with card draw, in particular for you since you'll be casting a lot of low cmc creatures. I know the focus is on deathtouch, but Blight Mamba could be a nice low cmc creature, especially since it can usually survive a boardwipe. Rhonas's Monument functions as both pump and cost reducer, and Rogue's Passage can help get through that last bit of damage. Inkmoth Nexus , I know its infect instead of deathtouch, but it has a bit of evasion, and Skyshroud Claim is great forest specific ramp. I hope this helps, great deck, always awesome to see more poison decks being built.

morgud on Stompy Scales

3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. With limited protection I leaned slightly toward Kujar Seedsculptor because with a Hardened Scales in play it has a toughness of 4. But you're correct that in non-burn matchups Pollenbright Druid is better.