Greater Good

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Combos

• Greater Good + The Great Henge + Woodfall Primus
• Greater Good + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Walking Ballista

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Belfore on Mo' Counters, Mo' Mana, Mo' Monsters! *Help

3 weeks ago

I would drop the lands that aren't allowed in his deck for lands like War Room, Karn's Bastion, Boseiju, Who Endures, Scavenger Grounds, Opal Palace, Myriad Landscape, and Blighted Woodland. And for the ones that aren't allowed you can drop for just basic forests. Land count is pretty strong. For draw along with war room there is Garruk's Uprising, Guardian Project, Stocking the Pantry, Greater Good, Lifecrafter's Bestiary, Rishkar's Expertise (which feels like a flavor win), Return of the Wildspeaker, Beast Whisperer, and I would say Toski, Bearer of Secrets is surprisingly useful depending on how often you get through.

hyalopterouslemur on Ziatora, abusing dinosaurs Help!

4 weeks ago

Have you thought about Greater Good for a card draw effect? Disciple of Bolas can also work. So there are a few options for card draw.

On the mana front, I'd add in Nature's Lore and Skyshroud Claim. Don't know what I'd take out, though.

I would suggest getting rid of the reveal lands, though. Just replace them with the Blood Crypt cycle of lands, a.k.a. shocks (because they Shock you), if you have them. If not, maybe the Sulfurous Springs cycle of lands, called pain lands.

capwner on Slimes against opening hands [Casual/Jank]

4 months ago

Hey you're right, the surgical deck is very much all-in on slimes. (FYI surgical is like a $3 card now so don't let that hold you back!) Running 43 copies means there's not a whole lot of room for much else :) Altar of Dementia is an interesting rec which I hadn't thought about, but it would probably mean dumping a card like Doubling Season, which is tough because cards like that and Greater Good just vibe so hard with the slimes. Anyways it's not supposed to be the best golgari deck ever made, just the slimiest one :)

multimedia on The Ooze makes it sticky

4 months ago

How's it going? Nice recent update, you've done a good job with cutting creatures. If you're worried about card prices then don't get Grim Tutor, not worth it, since for it's high price you could add many more budget friendly card upgrades.

Something to think about for some deck improvements is the mana curve and how it plays having such a heavy top end. The big creatures you want to reanimate are the top of the mana curve here and there's a lot of them, it's filled. Having many other 5 CMC or higher spells (there's 10 here) that aren't creatures can really bog down the mana curve making gameplay worse.

Grievous Wound, Demonic Covenant, Badlands Revival, Convert to Slime, Final Parting, The Cruelty of Gix, Deadbridge Chant, Breach the Multiverse none of these cards are really needed. Since creatures fill the top of the mana curve then focus on improving the beginning of the mana curve? Malevolent Rumble and Diresight are examples of cards at beginning of the mana curve that do a lot for their mana costs for reanimation strategy.

Consider more lower mana cost reanimation spells? If the plan is to cast Stickfingers turn 4 for two then give yourself more chances to reanimate a creature that same turn with more lower mana cost reanimation? You have Reanimate and Animate Dead, but that's really it for early game possible reanimation. Consider Life / Death and Soul Exchange?

A big advantage of green recursion spells here is getting back a reanimation spell to reanimate again. The problem is most of the recursion spells here can only get back a permanent, not a nonpermanent spell. Other than Animate Dead most reanimation here is coming from nonpermanent spells. Consider Regrowth and Dryad's Revival?

Opponent exile effects at your creatures can really ruin your day. Consider some protection against exile? Fine protection against exile here is creature sac since if you sac your creature in response to the exile then it instead goes to your graveyard to be reanimated again. Greater Good is powerful since it can be repeatable, not only is it creature sac, but draw and discard too. Lazotep Quarry is a land that can sac a creature to make a mana.

If you're having trouble with opponents attacking you then Grave Titan could really help. It puts a lot of defense onto the battlefield when it comes in.

TheOutcastWarlock on Should Muldrotha Eldrazi be Sac …

5 months ago

My deck Muldrotha Eldrazi is a new deck I've been working on to compete at the higher power tables I run into. The idea is to dredge into life of the loam for lands while using cards like Malevolent Rumble to make spawn/scions to ramp into them. Support pieces include Birthing Pod & Cankerbloom.

I've used this exact deck several times and it's too slow, has no impact on the board, and is super fragile. If I add cards like Protean Hulk and Greater Good, what should I replace? Should I add the bigger eldrazi? What should I have as control pieces? Should I scrap this deck and start over from scratch?

I have no budget so any suggestions would be useful. Thanks in advance.

Poly_raptor on The Predator of Predators

5 months ago

Hello, dropping you some feedback from the advertise thread as feel you didn’t really get it when you posted!

I really like the deck, I’ve actually already upvoted so can’t do that again.

I appreciate Finale of Devastation offers some recursion, but I prefer Chord of Calling, it’s a pip more expensive but can be made much cheaper with creatures and is also instant speed, which can come in very useful.

Wilderness Reclamation could also be very good, as could Seedborn Muse, although the latter is probably the better card the former may be more flavourfully fitting. Lastly Greater Good could get you out of any top deck issues as you’re running a lot of big creatures.

Hope these suggestions are useful!

Icaruskid on Green Fireball | Omnath, Locus of Mana [PRIMER]

5 months ago

Risenforce Thank you! It's an unusual deck and so many people have helped evolve it into the fun but effective weird green machine it is today.

And yes! Because Omnath is commonly above 20 power, Life's Legacy, Momentous Fall, and Greater Good basically read "Draw 15 cards, recast your commander for 5 mana, and still have 10 mana."

Profet93 on Unashamedly Gruul Assault

6 months ago

Headers13 +1

I like how you play Xenagos with smaller creatures and pump spells. Very aggro combat trick based deck, it's enjoyable. Here are some thoughts for cards under $5...

Creatures

Eternal Witness - Recursion is nice

Savage Ventmaw - Combo with aggravated assault or just value on it's own.

Siege Behemoth/Carnage Tyrant > Kodama - Kodama has shroud so you can't target it. Siege has hexproof so you can, and a relevant ability.

Misc

Greater Good - Best card in Xenagos, even with low stat creatures. Pump them up with commander, maybe even another pump spell and then you can sacrifice them in response to removal to get draw/virtual + actual card advantage, fill your GY, as well as preventing theft and exile!

Rancor - Reuseable cheap buff

Rishkar's Expertise - While not entirely serious given your set up, despite being risky, it can pack a pump. Refueling hand and adding tempo? Sign me up

Return of the Wildspeaker - Can be used as draw or buff. It is expensive for sure, but worth considering.

Three Visits > Rampant growth - Three visits can grab duel type forest/mountain lands

Speaking of lands, there are some potential lands I can show you should you wish. Looking forward to your response.