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Commander / EDH Mono-Green

Jmax13

Ramp (20)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Land (32)

• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 22x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Card-Selection (6)

• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Card-Advantage (16)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Nessian Game Warden
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Thicket Elemental
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Buff (11)

• 1x Aggressive Mammoth
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Rhonas the Indomitable
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain

Utility (8)

• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

Commander (1)

Removal (14)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Somberwald Stag
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Territorial Allosaurus
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Whiptongue Hydra
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x World Breaker

Combo (8)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

Recursion (5)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Seasons Past

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Goreclaw is one mean bear.

As a 4/3 for 4, she is already a pretty good rate. Add in the fact that she makes all of our other ferocious creatures (power 4 or greater) cost 2 less and the fact that she provides +1/+1 and trample, and you have yourself the leader of a powerful mono green fighting force.

It's a given that this deck wants high power creatures. However, I approached this deck with two main objectives.

1) I want to have as many ways to interact with the board as possible

2) I want to draw as many cards as possible to stay ahead on resources.

With that in mind, I built this deck.

C-c-c-combo!

The deck does feature certain combos, as these are often needed for a beatdown deck to win the game. Most of these combos revolve around Temur Sabertooth and Cloudstone Curio.

This start's by going infinite on mana. We have a few ways of doing this.

• Great Oak Guardian + Temur Sabertooth + any combination of 7 or more creature mana.

this is easiest with Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Karametra's Acolyte, but is possible with Voyaging Satyr and Priest of Titania

• Cloudstone Curio + Great Oak Guardian + any 1 drop creature + any combination of 6 or more creature mana.

Because of our commanders cost reduction, we have cards all the way up to the 3 drop slot that can be cast for 1 mana, making this more efficient.

Of course, both of these combos above can be done without our commander on the battlefield, they just become two mana more inefficient.

This game plan is especially nice because it also results in infinitely big creatures as a side effect that our commander can give trample. Not a bad way to close the game with a swing.

• Karametra's Acolyte/Selvala, Heart of the Wilds/Priest of Titania/Voyaging Satyr + Umbral Mantle.

All of these creatures by some way or another can generate infinite mana via the untap from the mantle. Acolyte needs devotion, selvala needs power, priests needs elves, satyr need cradle or nykthos. But they all work.

Now, what the heck do we do with all that mana? Well, I'll tell you.

Winning the Game

• Kamahl, Fist of Krosa. Just him. He can animate your lands and then turn them into infinitely big trampling beaters.

• Rhonas the Indomitable or Nylea, God of the Hunt can serve as an outlet, providing you a creature for each opponent you wish to defeat.

• Temur Sabertooth/Cloudstone Curio + any etb or cast effect creature. I'll let you figure out which ones you like. Among them we can put infinite 1/1 counters, tutor all creatures out of our deck, exile all artifacts, exile all enchantments, exile all lands, destroy all flyers, bring all of our creatures out of our graveyard, fight all creatures below 5 power, and draw our whole deck.

Let your imagination guide you. Bear in mind that Bramble Sovereign will let you get infinite tokens of any non legendary creatures that etb, letting you abuse their effects so long as you can bounce the original.

If none of these things work out for you, there is always the back-up plan.

Beat Down

• Craterhoof Behemoth does what it does best.

• Stonehoof Chieftain protects your creatures as you swing

• Overwhelming Stampede will often be just a tad bit worse than craterhoof, which is still amazing.

• Kamahl, Fist of Krosa / Nylea, God of the Hunt / Rhonas the Indomitable will all pump your dudes sky high.

So that's that! I was tempted to make this deck much more mean, and it can be done, but I decided to go with a more 75% build that was strong but still fun to play against.

Let me know what you think. This deck is still under construction and will be getting some changes as time goes on. Results with this deck have been very good so far. It has a lot more going on than your typical green creature deck and has tons of counter play with your opponent. Let me know what you think.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Great Oak Guardian + Temur Sabertooth
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.16
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, The Monarch, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	EDH