Hermit Hua Tuo

Commander / EDH* Mono-Green

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Vestige
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Havenwood Battleground
• 1x High Market
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Memorial to Unity
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Untap (4)

• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote

Ramp (14)

• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Rejuvenator
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wild Growth

Removal (10)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Kraul Harpooner
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon

Tutor (7)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Recursion (4)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Skullwinder

Commander (1)

CardAdvantage (10)

• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Garruk's Horde
• 1x Gather the Pack
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Vessel of Nascency
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Winding Way

Protection (7)

• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Warping Wail
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Utility (6)

• 1x Battlefield Scrounger
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Gnaw to the Bone
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Spore Frog

WinCon (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Kessig Cagebreakers
• 1x Temur Sabertooth

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Hua Tuo Mono Green Hermit Midrange Primer

Introduction

This is a primer for Hua Tuo, Honored Physician in 4-player Free-For-All EDH. In general, the goal of the deck is to mill your entire library with Hermit Druid , then utilize your graveyard as a toolbox and win package using your commander as a Worldly Tutor on a stick combined with untap effects (i.e. Thousand-Year Elixir ) and draw effects (i.e. Vizier of the Menagerie ). This deck functions quite differently then most other mono-green decks you may see in EDH, though there are some similarities that can be drawn to Yisan, the Wanderer Bard . There are a lot of moving pieces needed to make the deck work, but these pieces are resilient and easily accessible due to the utility your commander provides.

Deck Archetype

Creature-Reliant Midrange - Resilient to removal, both due to the recursion package and your commander. You will be able to rebuild from a boardwipe with good consistency. While you are looking for a combo finish, it is by no means a fast combo. This means the mid part of the game has to be spent on interacting with your faster opponents while you continue to build up to a position where you can combo off in one or two turns.

Deck Strengths

• Very resilient to hate and removal. Your commander helps mitigates opposing removal, and you can ramp hard enough to outpace most taxing effects. There are enough untapping effects in the deck to help you break through any opposing stax pieces (i.e. Static Orb , Tangle Wire ).
• Great access to a toolbox of creature-based answers, and can sustain a long game without any library. Once you have generated enough mana and dumped your library into your graveyard, Hua Tuo, Honored Physician grants you access to any creature the situation demands. If you haven't yet milled yourself, you can still recur your Reclamation Sage type effects by allowing them to die only to bring them right back with Hua Tuo, Honored Physician .

Deck Weaknesses

• You are very reliant on your graveyard both to win and meaningfully interact. This means that if your opponents have any graveyard interaction, and use it against you at the wrong time, you may have a very hard time winning. That being said, it is possible to assemble your combo without first milling yourself, but more on that later.
• Once you've activated Hermit Druid , your deck becomes completely dependent on Hua Tuo, Honored Physician to prevent yourself from losing the game via decking. This means that you need to time your Hermit Druid activation well, waiting to do so until you have resolved Hua Tuo, Honored Physician , and ideally once you have a plan to protect your commander. Other counter measures to defend against your opponents removing Hua Tuo, Honored Physician include activating him as many times as possible after milling yourself in order to rebuild a bit of a deck. That way if he does happen to get destroyed, at least you'll have a couple of turns to resolve him again.
• Cursed Totem and Linvala, Keeper of Silence completely turn off your key pieces (dorks, and commander).
• Other stax pieces that disrupt creature-heavy decks Humility , prevent ETB effects ( Torpor Orb ), or interupt graveyard interaction ( Rest in Peace ) are obviously major hurdles for the deck. Saving your removal for these types of a effects may prove optimal.
• Being a mono colored Hermit Druid deck limits are land based significantly. It means we have to make generally sub-optimal choices, and are much weaker to non-basic land hate ( Blood Moon , Path to Exile ).

Hua Tuo vs. Yisan

• These two commanders have a lot in common. Both are creature-based mono-green decks that focus on mana production to fuel an engine. There is high value in untapping effects, since both decks want to be able to utilize their commander as many times as possible.
• Yisan is obviously the superior commander from a cEDH perspective, but Hua Tuo offers unique advantages that Yisan does not. Once you've turned Hua Tuo, Honored Physician on with Hermit Druid , you can play out a string of creatures in whatever order you want. In other words, you aren't restricted by the linear increase in CMC like Yisan is. This allows for a great deal more flexibility in how you assemble your combo or interact with the board.

Strategy / Gameplan

General Gameplan

Mulliganing

The Mindset of a Hua Tuo Player

How to Pilot without a Library

Winning

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This deck was partially inspired by Wanderer's Song and the primer was similarly inspired by it's primer.
Paper (Budget) Version of the deck: Mono Green Hermit Combo - Paper Version

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.54
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Plant 0/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G