Karametra, god of Harvests

Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya) Landfall Ramp Toolbox

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Creature (40)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• 1x Cathar Commando
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Guardian of Faith
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 1x Kor Skyfisher
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Silverback Elder
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Stonecloaker
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Thornscape Familiar
• 1x Tiller Engine
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Welcoming Vampire
• 1x Whitemane Lion

Land (38)

• 1x Arctic Treeline
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 5x Forest
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 5x Plains
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 5x Snow-Covered Forest
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (5)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Oketra's Monument
• 1x Symmetry Matrix

Commander (1)

Instant (6)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Primeval Bounty

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Sideboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Defiler of Faith
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Kazandu Mammoth  ^Flip
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Nylea, Keen-Eyed
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Soul of the Harvest

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip

Land (2)

• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Instant (2)

• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Farewell

Artifact (1)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Emancipation Angel
• 1x Emeria Angel
• 1x Fleetfoot Panther
• 1x Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Stone-Seeder Hierophant
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets

Instant (1)

• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Great Henge

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Rishkar's Expertise

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A landfall deck, with a side of creature toolbox. The ramp consists in a ton of mana dorks and cost reducer, to get Karametra out on turn 3/4. Then every creature becomes a land drop that triggers the landfall payoffs (scute swarm, felidar retreat, avenger of zendikar, primeval bounty, field of the dead), and the deck includes a fair amount of card avantage engines that trigger from casting creatures. This helps to make the mana dork matter later in the game, where they would suck in most decks.

The deck has 6 creature tutors, either for synergy/combo pieces, win conditions, card advantage engines, or for silver bullets : hatebears (drannith, collector ouphe), removal (skyclave apparition, kogla, cathar commando, silverback elder), wrath (cataclysmic gearhulk), protection (guardian of faith, selfless spirit, destiny spinner, mother of runes), ...

That was the "fair" aspect of the deck, but there is also multiple combo engines, where each engine piece has a lot of synergies with the deck even when you don't have the full combo.

The combo aspect is based on whitemane lion (and 2 other slightly worse creatures with the same effect), that bounces itself back to hand when you play it, so you can replay it again and again as long as you have enough mana, netting you a land drop on every cast, and the landfall triggers that go with it.

Then there are various ways of making it cost 1 or even 0 to cast: cost reducers like cloudkey, thorn familiar, oketra's monument for the colorless part, and things that make mana from land drops for the W part (lotus cobra, tireless provisioner, tiller engine). Or just Aluren. Then you get to put every forest and plains from the deck in play, and make a million scute swarms/huge cat or plant tokens in the process.

Overall the deck is very consistent, has answers to a lot of common situations, and is very resilient since its commander is very hard to kill, your ramp is in the form of lands (so no artifacts to be sniped), and you tend to draw a lot of cards/have tutors to find what you need to keep going after a wrath.

It is however not particularly fast, since you need 3-4 turns to get Karametra out, then 2-3 turns to setup by ramping a lot, drawing/tutoring cards and playing combo pieces, then one more turn to make a huge board and another to swing with it. So you're only lethal turn 7 to 10 (and you're not locking the game up before that either), so you'll still lose to efficient combo decks or just the table ganging up on you. Which was what I was looking for, a good smooth deck but not oppressive to a table of tuned but not competitive decks.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 2 Mythic Rares 44 - 13 Rares 15 - 4 Uncommons 11 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Clue, Copy Clone, Food, Illusion */* U, Insect 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B