Farmstead Gleaner

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow

Farmstead Gleaner doesn't untap during your untap step.

{2}, {UNTAP}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Farmstead Gleaner. ({UNTAP} is the untap symbol.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

Kozelek on Trazyn the infinite combo guy

1 year ago

@capwner thanks for the props on Farmstead Gleaner I know most people rely on Pili-Pala for infinite mana but I wanted something that most people would not automatically realize was part of the win-con, as well as redundancies in case of graveyard removal I have back up plans to my back up plans. Disciples of Gix is awesome for this deck regardless of reanimation or not

capwner on Trazyn the infinite combo guy

1 year ago

Looks like a solid mono-b combo build. The Farmstead Gleaner trick is really cool I haven't seen that one before. If you are going for optimization, I wonder if Trazyn in the command zone is the correct choice vs. Trazyn+Ooze in the 99 and a more value-oriented commander like K'rrik or Braids, Arisen Nightmare. Disciples of Gix is another solid card I see in these types of decks a lot, though it is better with more straight up reanimation spells so you can go from entombing disciples into comboing off.

Delphen7 on The Technomancer【Trazyn, the Infinite CEDH】v4.1

3 years ago

zAzen7977 Glad you like it :D

In my testing thus far, barring interaction, it usually plays Trazyn t2-t3 and wins the following turn.

• Between the lines being somewhat unintuitive and being able to win on top of interaction, the deck is hard to interrupt.

In general

• Interaction before we're set up hurts, but there are so many ramp effects we can usually pay command tax once or twice before getting truly stuck.
• Counterspells/removal on nonTrazyn cards usually don't matter as it just sets us up better to combo (ie an opponent counters a Mana Vault while we're sitting on a Pili-Pala kind of thing).

That said:

Counterspells

• These are pretty bad if they're aimed at Trazyn, but between discard, spells that draw counters (like Oppo Agent) and a lack of knowledge about his power, I usually see them deployed on the wrong cards.
• I play online (and thus against random people), but if you wanted to run this in a dedicated pod, more hand check would probably be good over Rocket Launcher and a couple other duplicate combo pieces to help clear the way for Trazyn once others know what's up.

Stax

• Stax is an interesting matchup. They can usually shut us out of comboing pretty quickly, but Trazyn is a 4/6 deathtouch, and the deck runs many big critters, so I can usually beat them to death and immediately win at instant speed.
• If anyone ever kills the stax pieces stopping us Trazyn can combo over anything opponents could do given we have Farmstead Gleaner or Pili-Pala. Even if we don't it's unlikely anyone has multiple piece of removal after removing stax pieces.
• It is worth noting that Drannith Magistrate and Collector Ouphe completely shut us down, but other common pieces are blank cardboard (like Grafdigger's Cage).

Removal

• As it's CEDH you don't really see much removal, but Patchwork Gnomes, Welding Jar and multiple haste effects mitigate what little there is
• If he is removed, it's usually pretty easy to recast Trazyn given how many ramp cards in the deck.

Turbo

• This is probably the worst matchup. If an opponent goes off before Trazyn is set up, there's nothing we can do about it. I usually hope that another opponent has interaction.
• Amusingly, Brain Freeze wins us the game if Trazyn is on the field, but Thoracle lines usually end poorly.
• When using discard to fish out counterspells, I try to target blue black players over other blue players to try and mitigate the risk of dying to Thoracle/Consultation if casting Trazyn goes poorly.

I think of the couple dozen games I've played thus far, my only losses were to a t2 Thoracle/Consultation, Gitrog with Collector Ouphe on the battlefield, a Chisei, Heart of Oceans playing way too many counterspells, and a wild game where no one drew anything until t30ish.

The best comparison for this deck is probably Turbo K'rrik. On average this list is slightly slower than K'rrik, but more resilient and less familiar, which gives us a slightly better game against interactive decks.

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This was a lot, but I hope it answers your question!

r0Wn on Wait, why did you just draw your entire library?

5 years ago

No Grand Architect, Pili-Pala, or Farmstead Gleaner...?

SquirrelPenguin on Ikoria Teaser

5 years ago

Lots of combos are possible with Zirda, the Dawnwaker.

Steel Hellkite or Dragon Engine or Golem Artisan for infinite power.

Voltaic Construct for infinite artifact creature untapping.

Gemstone Array for infinite mana.

Caravan Escort to instantly level up.

Juju Bubble for infinite life.

Samite Sanctuary for indestructible creatures (Does not prevent Murders)

Shield of the Ages to become invincible (Assuming your opponent doesn't win some other way)

And I am sure someone can find a combo with Farmstead Gleaner.

CrimsonChaos on Untap Symbol

6 years ago

We did just get Farmstead Gleaner recently, so it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility we may get more cards with untap symbols sometime.