Just a general question, what do you guys think about Predator Ooze in traditional mono green stompy?

@Smeltz45: Predator Ooze hits a couple good points for Stompy. It has high devotion and is hard to remove. The negative side of it is that it is slow. Stompy generally wants to be an aggro deck and this version specifically relies on either really efficient or really speedy creatures. It usually doesn't have time for too many value plays. Even the Collected Companys, which are my value plays, many times are used to try to get some haste creatures in on my pre-combat main phase to finish off an opponent or get them dangerously low. Thanks for the suggestion!

Groundbreaker and Strangleroot Geist really like Primal Forcemage. With geist especially it's disgusting because you get a 5/4 then a 6/5. Uktabi Drake is another one that works well with the Primal Forcemage package.

Hey, ChiefBell: Thanks for the suggestion! I had actually recently discussed Primal Forcemage a little with another person who had been running a couple. It was in consideration of the 2 flex slots that the Eternal Witnesses are in currently. I haven't tested the forcemages before, in fact I only recently changed from 1x Reverent Hunter and 1x Witness to the 2x Witness, to test it out, and haven't actually played it yet. The guy I talked to said that in his testing the 2x witness seemed the best, of those three options, in those flex slots, so I decided to go this way instead of the other.

Unless you are talking about going full in 4x forcemage and trying to increase the number of haste creatures, which seems may be the case with the Drake suggestion. For that I have not looked too much into it at this point, and I am not sure what the deck would turn in to at that point. It may be interesting to put together at some point, although I am certainly happy with how the current deck runs and performs. Thanks!

Isn't Groundbreaker kind of a nonbo with Collected Company? With everything else out of your deck, you seem to want to cast Company on their turn so you can untap and attack. But with Groundbreaker, you want to cast it during your turn to be able to attack with it before you can lose it.

Hey, Mortem! That is a good question, and it may seem so at first. However, there are usually three ways that it plays out with casting Collected Company.

1) I am casting it during the pre-combat main phase on my turn to try to find haste and/or devotion to either get in lethal or push it close. Groundbreaker is great here in both ways.

2) I am casting it during my opponents combat step, after attackers are declared, to attempt to flash in some blockers. Groundbreaker is usually good here as it can usually get a kill or at the least soak up some damage that I could not afford to take.

3) I am casting it during my opponents end step. This is the sneakiest part because, even though at first glance it doesn't seem so, Groundbreaker is strong here too. With the way the rules work, during the end step, all "at end of turn" triggered abilities trigger before players are able to cast spells or activate abilities. Therefore, if I put a Groundbreaker onto the field with Collected Company at that point, the time for the sacrifice ability to trigger is already passed for the turn and has to wait until the next end step (on my turn) before it can trigger, giving me the chance to still attack with it before having to sac it.

There are very few times that I will be casting Collected Company outside of those 3 scenarios (maybe in response to hand disruption). In those rare cases I just hope I don't hit any of the 4 Groundbreakers.

Great question!

This list is sweet. I love Stompy (it was my first Modern deck) and this is definitely the best non-standard list I've seen. The only thing I don't have and don't have the budget for is Noble Hierarch. What would you replace it with if you had to? Elvish Mystic?

Hey, dannecticut! I actually had this conversation with a guy just the other day, and I will tell you the same thing. First off, the Noble Hierarchs are very good in this deck and I would certainly suggest getting them if you ever have the means or opportunity. They don't seem like much but they are sneaky good and add just enough to make a difference you may not notice until you use them (and every little advantage matters in Modern). That said, I certainly understand the cost barrier that they are, which unfortunately alone makes this version of stompy not nearly as budget-friendly. You can substitue pretty much any mono-green one drop mana dork really, so yeah, Elvish Mystics are fine. I was using Elvish Mystics until I was able to get the play-set of Hierarchs. They are cheap and they fill in fine, but you can tell the power difference when you run Hierarchs. Good luck!

Is Treetop Village not that good in this version? I usually have them as lands 21 and 22.

Well, dannecticut, there are a couple things with this. The first is that one of the reasons Treetop Village is in traditional Stompy is to be late game when they are running low on options. This version already has much heavier late game and therefore doesn't usually need something quite like that. The biggest thing however, is the mana smoothness. I really want all of my lands to enter untapped in the early part of the game. Most of the time it can be integral. I can live off of 1 or 2 land hands but if they were tapped lands, I may be spending a turn doing nothing when I need to be doing something. I think that really it comes down to my running heavier threats at a slightly lesser density than traditional Stompy means that I still want to get creatures down as fast as possible, but they usually makes a bigger difference per creature, so it is more important to hit my curve, especially with less active 1 and 2 drops to fill in my curve in between. Not sure if that made sense. I know what I am trying to say but it seems to be coming out a bit off. :P