Welcome to Nylea, The Truth Beast Within Primer. i would explain how this heavy creature deck can win. First, this deck is thinking in Cedh blind meta, and second, this deck is a combo deck.
Why Nylea, Keen-Eyed as general?
well, i think this is the first thing that came in mind when you`re thinking if Nylea can be an option in cedh. 4 manas (1 specific) for an indestructible enchantment/creature, with a good numbers. But the most importants things are this; a static ability that hit the mana casting cost of creature's spells and a win condition for infinite green mana, because is a creature tutor. This deck runs 36+Dryad Arbor creatures.
The win condition:
Nylea, Keen-Eyed, Gaea's Blessing, Krosan Reclamation, Beast Within, Eternal Witness, Sylvan Safekeeper and Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Nylea's ability not only put creatures from your library in your hand, she put into the graveyard all non-creature cards. This win condition is an instant speed. This is how function:
Once you make infinite green mana with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild:
- Response with nylea's ability to himself until your put into the graveyard Krosan Reclamation. If Gaea's Blessing is in your graveyard, cast for the flashback cost Krosan Reclamation targeting Gaea's Blessing. if Gaea's Blessing is not in your graveyard, continue to reponse to nylea's ability until your put Gaea's Blessing into the graveyard.
- Gaea's Blessing trigger on the stack. If Yeva, Nature's Herald, Allosaurus Shepherd, Sylvan Safekeeper or Eternal Witness are in the graveyard, resolve the suffle effect of Gaea's Blessing. if all this creatures are not in the greaveyard, response with nylea's ability until mills all your non-creature cards. if you have to need to resolve the shuffle's trigger, then hold priority and response with nylea's ability until the same result, putting into the stack Gaea's Blessing trigger again.
- Cast Yeva, Nature's Herald and resolve
- Cast Allosaurus Shepherd, and resolve
- Cast Sylvan Safekeeper, and resolve
- Cast Eternal Witness, resolve and put Beast Within into your hand
- Destroy any opponent's permanent. Destroy Eternal Witness with Sylvan Safekeeper, then go for nylea’s ability, putting Gaea's Blessing in GY, resolve the shuffle effect, nylea’s ability again until put into the hand Eternal Witness. Cast her putting Beast Within into your hand. Repeat until destroy all the opponent's permanents.
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Do (7) but Beast Within into any own creature. Repeat (8) infinite times to get infinite tokens from Beast Within and pass the priority, resolving the Gaea's Blessing`s trigger. The result after this is:
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No opponent's permants into the battlefiled, only tokens.
- You have all the creatures of your deck into the battlefiled + infinite tokens from Beast Within
- Your library only have non-creatures cards.
Past the turn and in your next, kill everyone via combat damage with infinite Beast Within tokens. In all the moment, all your creatures are safe because Sylvan Safekeeper, Yeva, Nature's Herald and Allosaurus Shepherd.
Note that you can win with Finale of Devastation in (6).
How to make infinite green mana?
This is a creature deck. all the infinite green mana combo are with creatures..., let's go to see it:
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+whisperers of wilds or Ilysian Caryatid
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Lotus Cobra if you have 1 creature without summoner's sickness and Nylea into the battlefield.
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Karametra's Acolyte
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Gyre Sage if have +1+1 counter
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Priest of Titania+1 other elf for all the cases if nylea is in the battlefield.
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and 1 green mana floating
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Marwyn, the Nurturer if at least have 2 force and nylea is in the battlefield for all the cases.
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Joraga Treespeaker if is level up and nylea is in battefield for all the cases.
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger+Arbor Elf+Wild GrowthorUtopia Sprawl
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Priest of Titania and 1 other elf
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Karametra's Acolyte
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Gyre Sage if have +1+1 counter
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and 1 green mana floating
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Marwyn, the Nurturer if at least have 2 force
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Joraga Treespeaker if is level up
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + whisperers of wilds or Ilysian Caryatid
Note the important of Joraga Treespeaker. She can turn in "tap for 2 green manas" each elf in the deck, so, can turn every elf in a combo piece.
This are with lands, enchants and/or artifacts:
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Wild Growth
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Utopia Sprawl
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Gaea's Cradle
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and 4 devotion to green
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Hope Tender + Castle Garenbrig and 3 green mana open. To do this:
1. Tap ashaya for 1 green and pay 4 to activate castle garenbrig. Have this 6 green mana to use in hope tender
2. Use 1 green mana in (1) to hope tender's ability. Untap hope tender and ashaya. tap ashaya for a green mana.
3. Repeat (2) until you have 5 green mana from (2) and 1 green remaning from (1)
4. Use the last green mana in (1) to hope tender's ability. Untap castle garenbrig and hope tender
5. pay 4 green manas in (3) to activate castle garenbrig. You are floating 1 green mana. Repeat infinite 1-5.
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger + Thousand-Year Elixir
* Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Scryb Ranger + Thousand-Year Elixir + Nylea, Keen-Eyed
* Umbral Mantle + Priest of Titania if there are 4 elfs into the battlefield
* Umbral Mantle + Karametra's Acolyte if you have devotion 4
* Umbral Mantle + Marwyn, the Nurturer if have at least 1 force and 2 manas floating
* Umbral Mantle + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds and 3 green mana floating
* Umbral Mantle + Hope Tender + Gaea's Cradle and if you have 4 another creatures
* Umbral Mantle + Hope Tender+Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and 7 devotion to green
note that Ashaya, Soul of the Wild+Quirion Ranger or Scryb Ranger transform Wild Growth and/or Utopia Sprawl into a wincon if you have another creature into the battlefiled without summoner's sickness
