[EDH][PRIMER] Karametra's Garden of Eden

Commander / EDH* Combo GW (Selesnya) Infinite Combo Multiplayer Primer Ramp

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Lands (28)

• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 9x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 9x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Removal (10)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wrath of God

Stax Effects (6)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Wincons (2)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Genesis Wave

Mana Advantage (12)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Enablers (8)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Emancipation Angel
• 1x Fleetfoot Panther
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Stonecloaker
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Whitemane Lion

Tutors (7)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Hate (4)

• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Commander

Card Advantage (10)

• 1x Bygone Bishop
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Omens

Protection (8)

• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sun Titan

Anthems (4)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Idyllic Tutor

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Description

Welcome to the Garden of Eden, home of Karametra, God of Harvests, one of my favorite legendary creatures that has ever been printed in Magic: The Gathering. Here, her army comprised of a menagerie of different creatures including cats, birds, and angels make their home here. Hello all! Welcome to a deck that I love, Karametra, God of Harvests. For some odd reason, people tend to go either a enchantress theme or a landfall theme. I'm not a fan of either builds, so I paved the way for a third path that should've been the most obvious, Karametra creatures!

Also, it should be noted that the deck isn't fully tuned. The deck is built for surviving high-powered metas, but probably won't win. However, the deck can fairly easily crush lower-powered decks.

Note for Suggestions: I absolutely hate the landfall mechanic. Only reason Lotus Cobra is in the deck is it generates mana and I love fast mana generators. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't of even considered it. Please DO NOT suggest landfall things!

Reading the Decklist

When building my decks, I try and fit cards into a multitude of different catagories. These catagories include Enablers, Card/Mana Advantage, Hate, Protection, Removal, Tutors, and Win-Cons. Some of these cards could only fit into one catagory (Fauna Shaman and Acidic Slime) or cross over into several different catagories (Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Solemn Simulacrum).

• Lands: Self explanitory.
• Protection: Cards that protect our stuff.
• Tutors: Allow us to search our library for what we require at any given time.
• Wincons: Self explanitory; cards that allow us to win the game on the spot most of the time.
• Mana Advantage: Cards that give us an advantage mana-wise over our opponents.
• Card Advantage: Cards that give us an advantage card-wise over our opponents.
• Hate: Cards that say "F*ck you!" to opponents and not allow them to do things.
• Stax Effects: Cards that make the game harder to play for our opponents.
• Removal: Cards that let us, well, remove or stop what an opponent is doing. They have a scary creature? Spot removal! They have a scary board? Boardwipe!
• Enablers: Cards that enable us to combo off or let us get more out of our cards.
• Anthems: Cards that give a positive boon to our entire board.
• Sideboard: Cards that could easily go into the deck and will probably swap out with certain cards depending on the game.
• Maybeboard: Cards I am thinking about throwing into the deck.

Deck Colors

I chose because I already had a large amount of staples for both colors and it involves my favorite color, green. Thats it, really!

Deck Strengths

The deck is quite strong at getting lands out quickly, especially after getting our commander out. In addition, once we get a decent board, it is quite hard to take down. Plus, since we're usually 7-15 lands ahead of our opponents most of the time, we can usually recover a lot quicker. In addition, a majority of the deck is two or three drops, so a Cyclonic Rift doesn't hose us as much as it should!

Weaknesses

Our deck is weak to certain cards being countered, tis why I threw in more cards like Dragonlord Dromoka and Grand Abolisher. In addition, our deck is weak to wrath effects, specifically cards that put -1/-1 counters on our creatures. Usually, if you have something like Whitemane Lion, we can save one or two creatures, or with Aluren and Cloudstone Curio we can save our entire board. As well, the deck is also much slower than most of the competitive tier one and two decks.

Needless to say, Toxic Deluge and Black Sun's Zenith screw us over.

General Strategy

The general stratagy of the deck is to get our general out, and then proceed to play lots of creatures, and get out more lands. There exist two different paths to victory really; Aluren + Cloudstone Curio + Wall of Blossoms/Wall of Omens to draw our entire deck or good ol' classic Genesis Wave into Craterhoof Behemoth.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	3/3 Beast, Clue
Folders	Fun Deck Ideas, Karametra
Top rank	#41 on 2017-06-19