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

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

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Lands (30)

• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 9x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 9x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Protection (8)

• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sun Titan

Anthems (6)

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

Wincons (5)

• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Hanged Executioner
• 1x Sandsteppe Outcast

Enablers (11)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Emancipation Angel
• 1x Enduring Renewal
• 1x Fleetfoot Panther
• 1x Kor Skyfisher
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Stonecloaker
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Whitemane Lion

Mana Advantage (9)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sol Ring

Tutors (8)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Hate (4)

• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Commander (1)

Removal (10)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wrath of God

Card Advantage (7)

• 1x Bygone Bishop
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Omens

Stax Effects (1)

• 1x Ghostly Prison

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Maybeboard

Combo-Based Pieces (11)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Enduring Renewal
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sandsteppe Outcast
• 1x Walking Ballista

Misc. Pieces (8)

• 1x Admonition Angel
• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Baneslayer Angel
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Reclamation Sage

Stax-Based Pieces (8)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tomik, Distinguished Advokist

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I know the primer is shit. I'm somewhat slowly working on it. Who am I kidding, it's never going to be completed.

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. I'm a big fan of her, as she was released during the set I started playing in, Born of the Gods. The deck seeks to abuse her ability to get lands into play by repeatedly casting low-costed creatures that bounce themselves to quickly get lots of lands out, and then take over the board with an army of tiny creatures. The deck lost a lot of firepower with the Paradox Engine ban, but it still works fine in medium-powered metas.

Note for Suggestions: Do not suggest landfall abilities. Do not suggest landfall abilities. Do not suggest landfall abilities. I'm not a fan of the mechanic, and the only reason Lotus Cobra is in the deck is because with it and Oketra's Monument and either Kor Skyfisher or Whitemane Lion you can get every single one of the forest or plains out of the library in a single turn.

Reading the Decklist

When I build decks, I have a series of categories I fit my cards in. Unless I really love the card, if it doesn't fit into a category I don't run it. These are the primary categories I run whenever building my decks:

• Lands: Self explanitory.
• Anthems: Cards that give a positive boon to our entire board, or affects casting cost of our cards.
• Enablers: Cards that allow us to combo off and begin the process of winning the game, or at least taking over the game with overwhelming advantage.
• Hate: Cards that aim to shut down aspects of the board so that people may not take advantage of it. For example, despite having a little recursion in the deck, we do not particularly make use the graveyard. As such, the main type of hate I run is graveyard-hate.
• Card Advantage: Cards that give us an advantage card-wise over our opponents.
• Mana Advantage: Cards that give us an advantage mana-wise over our opponents.
• Protection: Cards that protect our board state.
• Stax Effects: Cards that openly hinder our opponents and what cards they can or cannot profit off of.
• Tutors: Cards that allow us to search for either what we need at any given time, or our win-cons should we be in the later stages of the game.
• Removal: Cards that allow us to deal with threats from our opponents.
• Wincons: Cards we aim to win the game with. Usually these are played after our enablers.
• 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.

Deck Strengths

The deck is relatively slow on the first four to five turns of the game as we don't run too many ways of accelerating our mana output beyond a couple mana dorks and the staple rocks. However, once we get our commander out and if we have something like Whitemane Lion or Kor Skyfisher in our hand, we can easily get out all of the basic lands in our deck in 2-3 turns. From there, the deck can play pretty much anything it draws without problem.

Weaknesses

The deck has three main weaknesses. The first being closing out games, albeit with the conversion to a more combo-oriented playstyle that has become a lesser factor. The next weakness is Rule of Law type effects. Since we're essentially a storm deck that capitalizes on us playing the same spells over and over again, forcing us to only play one spell a turn hurts. Finally, the last weakness is big creatures. Over two-thirds of the creatures in the deck are either 1/1's, 2/1's, or 2/2's. As such, massive creatures with trample swinging in our direction tends to screw us over, particularly because we don't want to be blocking with our tiny army of value. Our commander being an indestructible 6/7 helps, but she needs to reach a certain devotion to work. The main reason Akroma, Angel of Wrath and Ghostly Prison are both in the deck is to help with this problem, albeit it's like a band-aid to a gash that needs stitches - they can only go so far.

General Strategy

The entire strategy of the deck involves getting either Cloudstone Curio or Aluren out on the field as fast as possible with our commander in play. Then, using cards such as Whitemane Lion paired with Wall of Blossoms we can draw our deck. From there, cards like Hanged Executioner give us infinite tokens with just Aluren and Cloudstone Curio in play, since he can bounce himself with his token. Just need Concordant Crossroads and we can swing with infinite tokens that turn.

There are also some other lines included within the deck, all involving Cloudstone Curio and Aluren in some way/shape/form. First is the aforementioned line with any of the blink creatures paired with the creatures that draw cards. Other lines include Rhonas's Monument paired with the blinking creatures in order to give all our creatures infinite pump and trample, Oketra's Monument paired with the blinking creatures to give us infinite tokens we can either sac to Blasting Station , Phyrexian Altar , or Ashnod's Altar depending on the situation or swing with an army of infinite creatures, Hanged Executioner and Sandsteppe Outcast to make infinite tokens and pair them with the aforementioned sac outlets, etc. There aren't too many ways to generate infinite mana, but honestly we don't really need infinite mana if we have Aluren , as all our win-cons save for Craterhoof Behemoth are under three mana.

Saffi Eriksdotter and Sun Titan also pair well with any of the sac outlets, and you can replace Sun Titan with Eternal Witness if you have Aluren out.

Top Ranked	Achieved #41 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elephant 3-3 G, Spirit 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance
Folders	Fun Deck Ideas, Karametra, Astro's Old Decks, X - EDH Inspiration - HYPERVALUE