Wort: the Ramp Mother of Burn

Commander / EDH MegaMatt13

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Amonkhet —April 29, 2017

2 additions from Amonkhet: Harvest Season and Sheltered Thicket. The thicket is nice because it can be fetched by the green ramp spells that let you search for any forest. The cycling is a nice touch too. Harvest Season when copied with Wort will at worst be a slightly cheaper explosive vegetation. It has the capacity to ramp like crazy.

Snap157 says... #1

If you had Wort, Dragon Fodder and Fervor, could you have infinite tokens by just tapping the creatures produced to replay the spell?

April 14, 2017 8:08 p.m.

crowned says... #2

Snap157 - It doesn't work that way at all. Firstly haste doesn't matter on creatures, you can conspire with summoning sick minions. If you conspire as part of the casting cost of Dragon Fodder you will get one and one only copy of the spell, check the conspire keyword.

Some new card ideas I had:

Burgeoning - Had this laying around and it could help speeding up your early game, while also getting a few more landfall triggers during your opponents turn. I might replace Nissa's Renewal since it's the most expensive ramp spell we got, that doesn't have high late game relevance. Lifegain is always very useful extra on a card though.

Sheltered Thicket - It is a forest/mountain that also cycles. As the card above, we do draw our fair share of lands each game, so utilizing the lands that flood us can be of great value.

Harvest Season (new amonkhet card) - While being utterly useless alone, if you conspire it with 2 minions, it turns into an Explosive Vegetation for 3 mana. Not incredibly useful in Burn-Wort, but could be very strong in a more token-centered strategy that wants to build in the new Amonkhet cards.

April 15, 2017 5:40 a.m.

MegaMatt13 says... #3

crowned, great minds think alike. I was going to throw in harvest season and sheltered thicket... Taking out nissa's Pilgrimage, which always felt like a weak 3 drop ramp. I've thought about burgeoning, but I've found that I often don'thave a ton of lands in hand. IIt's great turn one, but kinda dead after that. I would play if I had ways of bouncing lands to hand.

April 15, 2017 10:48 a.m.

The_Notebook says... #4

I like the looks of this, you're very balanced, but with heavier emphasis on ramp than my own Wort deck here on TappedOut which is a lot more token centric. I also love Rude Awakening its very good tech, would honestly be such an overloaded card if it could be done at instant speed because you could essentially threaten to reset the entire board if someone tries to board wipe, which is we are honest, is a HUGE problem to Wort and all things we hold dear, maybe more for my token style of Wort, but even for something such as this its a horrid set back. If I can make a few, he tends to make a target of himself, but Krenko, Mob Boss is great tech for Wort. He allows for great coverage in terms of red tokens and creates more every time if left alone allowing for a great deal of board pressure as you opponents can easily lose the game with such a swell of power. While maybe not as reliable Animist's Awakening also holds a great deal as at least a sideboard include to this as a mid-game ramp card, paying even 8-9 for this then copying it is can get you a LOT of value, and if you've cast 2-3 spells already all the lads you find come in untapped, even lands that say they come in untapped as the second ability untaps the lands after they have all been played allowing for a longer turn. Another great card I have found for Wort is Seasons Past its recursion so I don't think anymore needs to be said on that matter.

April 18, 2017 10:13 p.m.

MegaMatt13 says... #5

The_Notebook, thanks for the feedback. Of your suggestions, Animist's Awakening and Seasons Past interest me the most. No idea what I'd cut though haha.

As for Krenko, I had him in a super early version of this deck. I've become incredibly picky with what permanents I include since they can't be copied. I would include Krenko if this was a goblin tribal version of Wort. I can understand how Krenko can get really out of hand if left unchecked but my meta has too many boardwipes for that to happen. You'll notice that most of my tokens have haste or some other ability (like Omnath's burn) because speed is key in this deck.

April 19, 2017 2:34 p.m.