EDH Omnath Landfall Midrange

Commander / EDH* Competitive Midrange Ramp RG (Gruul)

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Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Pyroblast

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x See the Unwritten
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Artifact (2)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Sarkhan Vol

Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savageborn Hydra
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (39)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 21x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Tempt with Vengeance

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition

Creature (2)

• 1x Tornado Elemental
• 1x Veteran Explorer

Land (3)

• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Stomping Ground

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Omnath, Locus of Rage - Landfall Midrange

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• This deck is still under construction. Suggestions are welcome!
• The maybeboard are the cards I'm trying to acquire.

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Introduction

Omnath, Locus of Rage is an extraordinary piece of architecture, and this deck respect it as such. Here are its primary strengths.

• Lands can't be countered, so 5/5s can splash right into a sea of blue mana.
• In EDH, it is very easy to overcome the obstacle of 1 land each turn. Cards like Oracle of Mul Daya and Exploration are starters, and ramp spells in general that search for lands like Explosive Vegetation are very strong here.
• Mana ramp in general is already strong because it gets you closer to casting several spells in a turn. Increasing the power of mana ramp is a very powerful and threatening thing to be doing in general.
• You get to Lightning Bolt *whenever any elemental dies*, not just when the 5/5 tokens die. While not all elementals are worth running, there are a few that stand out, like Greenwarden of Murasa.
• The gameplan is very simple and elegant. While the deck can be easy to play for beginners, there's still plenty of room for value plays that come with choices to be made. If you've been steering clear of Omnath, Locus of Rage because you feel it's too linear and simple, rest assured that there are still many tough choices to be made.
• The ability to play 5/5s without casting spells means you don't have to overextend your hand to develop a threatening boardstate. You often times are holding pack lots of powerful cards in your hand waiting for your opponent to make a move. This results in a lot of resilience.

Mana Ramp

It's very important that all of the mana ramp I am running produces landfall triggers. Cards like Birds of Paradise aren't going to cut it. Ramp cards I am running include the following.

• Courser of Kruphix: He's a Woodland Bellower target and plays lands that aren't in your hand yet. That's worth it.
• Oracle of Mul Daya: An absolute must-have for any green deck. It one of the strongest draws in the deck.
• Sakura-Tribe Elder: It's a Rampant Growth on a creature. Can be targeted by Woodland Bellower, but that admittedly won't happen often. It's also a good delayed land-drop.
• Solemn Simulacrum: Easy to cast, obvious synergy. What's not to like? Great with Temur Sabertooth late game.
• Exploration: Playing two lands per turn is huge, especially as a turn 1 play. This can be a game breaker.
• Into the Wilds: I like investing into a permanent like this. Overtime, this can produce several free land drops. While in other decks, other mana ramp is usually better because it tends to be faster, this card is specifically good in this exact deck, and better here than anywhere else.
• Blighted Woodland : It's like Myriad Landscape except that it doesn't come into play tapped. It may seem like paying two extra mana might not be worth it for that fact alone, but as a top deck, or coming off the top with Oracle of Mul Daya, this card is very explosive as it produces three landfall triggers on the spot.
• Garruk Wildspeaker : I usually have two red sources by the time I'm ready to play Omnath, Locus of Rage, but in the weird scenario that I don't, Garruk can get me two red mana anyway by untapped a land. Making a 3/3 beast synergizes with Elemental Bond and Garruk's Packleader in a very nice way, and his Overrun ultimate ability is easy to get to and ridiculously strong alongside an army of 5/5 elementals.
• Boundless Realms: Perhaps the most impactful landfall spell available, this is a win-condition.
• Cultivate: A very good ramping card. It can get both the mountains I need for Omnath, Locus of Rage.
• Explore: I like draw power, so I naturally fell into this choice.
• Explosive Vegetation: This card is absurd, and can also get mountains.
• Farseek: Another generic ramp spell. Can get a dual land.
• Kodama's Reach: It's just a second Cultivate. I'm specifically running these and not Nissa's Pilgrimage because Nissa's Pilgrimage only gets basic forests. I need the ability to pump out two mountains among my lands quickly, and casting a Nissa's Pilgrimage instead of Cultivate isn't going to do that.
• Nissa's Renewal: This card is so absurd.
• Rampant Growth: Generic ramp spell.
• Ranger's Path : Notably able to target Cinder Glade and eventually a Stomping Ground when I acquire one.
• Search for Tomorrow : An underrated ramp spell.
• Skyshroud Claim: A staple ramp spell.

Ramp spells that I am not running, and reasons why.

• Three Visits: I don't have one. It's a bit pricey. I'll never find one for trade, and probably will never have one in general.
• Nature's Lore: This one is certainly more attainable, but again, I do not own one.
• Khalni Heart Expedition : I'm actually going to be picking this one up soon.
• Manabond: It's a possibility. I don't own one. I'd have to find one or buy it. Could be absurdly strong, but I would need to go up to probably 45-50 lands if I added this one.
• Veteran Explorer : I'm looking to acquire one of these. It's pretty sweet especially with Skullclamp.
• I'm straying away from cards like Armillary Sphere that just add lands to my hand. I want my ramp spells to specifically produce a landfall trigger.
• I'm straying away from Jund Panorama and Naya Panorama because I feel that teramorphic expanse and Evolving Wilds are good enough without having to add more of those that cost mana to activate.
• I can add fetch lands, it's just that I don't have any extra right now. They're all in another deck. I'm not in a position to be spending a lot of money at the moment, so I'm going to have to be playing without fetches for now.

Card Advantage

You'll find that this deck is surprisingly very card-advantage-oriented. I am primarily a blue player, so the amount of value I put into this deck reflects that. Draw power in any deck is important, even in Green/Red. Here's what I'm doing to draw cards.

• Skullclamp: While I don't have a lot of tiny creature generation to draw crazy amounts of cards, putting this on a 5/5 elemental token produced from Omnath, Locus of Rage and then sacrificing the token to Evolutionary Leap is pretty strong, drawing two cards, dealing 3 damage, and then leaping into a free creature. Any deck that plays a semi-significant number of creatures will find that Skullclamp is probably a good addition, especially of draw power is limited otherwise.
• Staff of Nin: I tend to gravitate towards this card in all my decks. In fact, I think that every single EDH deck I play has a Staff of Nin in it. Drawing two cards per turn is something I feel is essential for almost any strategy. The 1 damage can be a handy tool at times.
• Garruk's Packleader: My general creates 5/5s out of nowhere, so this card produces lots of card advantage. Also, Rampaging Baloths produces tokens that interact with this creature too.
• Elemental Bond: A similar effect to Garruk's Packleader. Essential to the deck's strategy.
• Greater Good: Talk about drawing cards. This card is absurd.
• Shamanic Revelation : This card draws a lot of cards, and gains a lot of life. It's sort of a finisher after you represent a huge boardstate.

As well as drawing cards, I also have generally valuable creatures that replace themselves and produce card advantage.

• Omnath, Locus of Rage: I'd be lying if I didn't include it in this list, as redundant as it seems. This is unarguably the most prevalent card advantage engine in the deck. A 5/5 creature is worth a lot more than zero mana, and that's what I get them for.
• Slab Hammer : Returning a land to my hand means I can make another 5/5 elemental. In a very small way, this can produce card advantage when I'm not drawing any lands for whatever reason, which happens occasionally.
• Eternal Witness: This is my favorite card in magic: the gathering, and absolutely a staple in any green deck.
• Greenwarden of Murasa: Not only is he Eternal Witness's dad, but he's also an elemental.
• Rampaging Baloths: Like a mini Omnath, Locus of Rage that gives me free creatures whose power adds up fast.
• Solemn Simulacrum: Hey! It can draw a card. Don't hate.
• Temur Sabertooth: I count this as card advantage because he returns Eternal Witness to my hand. That's dumb.
• Whisperwood Elemental: While he is an elemental and does produce card advantage, sometimes what he does are things that are unexpected and turn out to hinder me. This card is still in consideration and might become something else.
• Woodland Bellower: This card searches for Eternal Witness, Courser of Kruphix, Skarrg Guildmage , and Reclamation Sage. It also can get Sakura-Tribe Elder in weird cases, and Riftsweeper if I ever acquire one and decide to run it.
• Wort, the Raidmother : This is one hell of a card with mana ramp spells, and especially with Shamanic Revelation . I accidentally killed myself today when I Shamanic Revelation 'd for 25 and copied it before realizing that I had 25 creatures in play. Whoops.
• Young Pyromancer: He produces elemental creatures that can be absurdly abused with Skullclamp and my commander.
• Evolutionary Leap: Kill my creature? I'll respond by putting another one in my hand. Essentially, I 0-for-1 you.
• Ancient Grudge : Destroy 2 target artifacts with 1 card. There's a lot of mana rocks in the format. I'll gladly spend 3 mana and a card to destroy a Gilded Lotus and a Sol Ring.
• Regrowth: It's a very powerful card in green. I want to play Praetor's Counsel too, and I'm just considering what to cut (and I have to get one).

Removal

Here's the removal available in this deck.

• Omnath, Locus of Rage: Again, I'd be lying if I didn't include this. Lightning bolts all over the place isn't irrelevant and is definitely considered removal.
• Staff of Nin: Yup. 1 damage can kill things. The other day, I used Zealous Conscripts to steal my opponent's Omnath, Locus of Mana to bring it back down to a 1/1, and then killed it with my Staff of Nin. It also hits planeswalkers.
• Acidic Slime: It's pretty well-rounded.
• Reclamation Sage: Targetable by Woodland Bellower and destroys what threatens me most.
• Scavenging Ooze: Probably the most reasonable answer to the graveyard without running clunky cards like Tormod's Crypt.
• Silklash Spider: My only answer to a swarm of flying creatures, and answers then very effectively.
• Woodfall Primus: Such bomb drop, much wow.
• Zealous Conscripts: Indeed, gaining control of a permanent can count as removal, especially with Evolutionary Leap to sacrifice a stolen creature.
• Warstorm Surge: I make 5/5 elementals. Enough said.
• Ancient Grudge : I like being able to destroy mana rocks and various other utility artifacts.
• Beast Within : Generic staple removal is generic.
• Destructive Revelry: Not too overwhelming, and will be replaced with a Krosan Grip sometime later on probably. This deck is still pretty new, so this will suffice for now.

Utility

And finally, here's some utility cards I decided to include.

• Nim Deathmantle: This might be removed, but it can save my Omnath, Locus of Rage. I haven't been thrilled with it because I tend to tap out on my turns, and I never really leave the mana open to save anything.
• Hammer of Purphoros: Giving all my creatures haste is a powerful effect with Omnath, Locus of Rage. Lethal damage can come out of nowhere.
• Archetype of Endurance: Giving all my creatures hexproof is only half of what this guy does. I can also remove hexproof from my opponent's creatures. Omnath, Locus of Rage is a great form of removal when my elementals die, and being able to target my opponent's creatures is essential. Cards like Lightning Greaves will still shroud their creatures, but Swiftfoot Boots will no longer protect them. Killing a damn Narset, Enlightened Master is extremely relevant in my metagame too. That card is absurd and needs to die.
• Avenger of Zendikar: An obvious choice for any landfall deck. You're kidding yourself if this card isn't included.
• Nylea, God of the Hunt: I'm mainly playing this card to give my 5/5s trample.
• Purphoros, God of the Forge: I tend to have a lot of creatures coming into play in this deck. Purphoros is a huge threat for that reason. There's always the fear of... "Is he going to play an Avenger of Zendikar??? SHIT!" He also gives my swarm of 5/5s +1/+0 for only 3 mana, which I can easily do several times for an even bigger alpha strike.
• Skarrg Guildmage : He gives my 5/5s trample and makes additional elementals to synergize with my commander. What's not to like?
• Urabrask the Hidden: Gives all my 5/5s haste. That's pretty much it. Also stops some infinite combos involving kiki-jiki, not that I'm too worried about that in my meta, but it's still worth mentioning.
• Yeva, Nature's Herald: In the small bit of playtesting I've done so far (only about 15 games), I haven't had too many opportunities to see the potential with this card yet. I think it's still good, allowing me to play Omnath, Locus of Rage at instant speed.
• Fires of Yavimaya: This is just to have 3 copies of *"Creatures you control have haste."* in the deck. Two just isn't quite enough. I need the 3.
• Parallel Lives: Create double 5/5s per land drop. This is an extremely relevant card.
• Warstorm Surge: This card is just gross.
• Chord of Calling: The trusty chord, which is very easy to cast for large numbers in this deck. It mainly gets Avenger of Zendikar, but has plenty of other very potent threats, include instant speed Zealous Conscripts, which can often be a life saver.
• Green Sun's Zenith: Another trusty tutor. It's effective at bringing out Greenwarden of Murasa and Woodland Bellower, but also good at getting Avenger of Zendikar and Archetype of Endurance. In preparation to casting Omnath, Locus of Rage, it's also nice to just green sun for Garruk's Packleader, or just Oracle of Mul Daya if you're getting mana screwed.

Thanks for your view, and hope you enjoyed the deck. A +1 would be appreciated, and have a wonderful day!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.75
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Dragon 4/4 R, Elemental 5/5 RG, Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Cool decks, Cool Decks