Bruse Tana, Boorish Bloodsower

Commander / EDH Aggro RGW (Naya) Saproling Tokens Voltron

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🍀 Land 🍀 (39)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

🌹 Draw 🌹 (9)

• 1x Fungal Plots
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets

🌼 Ramp 🌼 (16)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Utopia Mycon

💐 Utility 💐 (12)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Huatli, Radiant Champion
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

🥀 Protection 🥀 (9)

• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Shield of the Oversoul
• 1x Snake Umbra

Commanders (2)

🌻 Power 🌻 (11)

• 1x Betrothed of Fire
• 1x Bravado
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Eidolon of Countless Battles
• 1x Goldnight Commander
• 1x Hope Against Hope
• 1x Mantle of Leadership
• 1x Sigil of the Nayan Gods
• 1x Sunbond
• 1x Thallid Germinator
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

🌺 Control 🌺 (2)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Goblin Bombardment

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Maybeboard

🌺 Control 🌺 (8)

• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Five-Alarm Fire
• 1x Glare of Subdual
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Shivan Harvest
• 1x Sundering VItae

🥀 Protection 🥀 (3)

• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

💐 Utility 💐 (5)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Pollenbright Wings
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

🌹 Draw 🌹 (3)

• 1x Camaraderie
• 1x Keeper of Fables
• 1x Sixth Sense

🌻 Power 🌻 (4)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Valor in Akros

🌼 Ramp 🌼 (3)

• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Rampant Growth

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Video of this deck in action courtesy of The GMGC!

WARNING: May cause excessive amounts of Damage, Lifegain, and Saprolings

My favorite deck! The plan is to make Tana huge quickly through the combination of effects like Sigil of the Nayan Gods and Bruse's double strike boon. It is common for this deck to swing for commander damage on turn 5, and new opponents rarely see it coming.

Basic Strategy

Ideally Tana, the Bloodsower will drop on turn 3 thanks to our myriad of 2-drop ramp. Turn four, Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder will join the party and bestow Tana with double strike and lifelink, likely allowing us to punch someone for 4 and make 4 little green plant friends. Turn 5, Tana will pick up something like Bravado , making her a 7/7 or greater, then swing again alongside Bruse for doublestrike and lifelink...

Now it gets interesting

With an all-for-one effect like Hope Against Hope on a double-striking Tana, her first-strike hit will make saprolings, which then makes her second-strike hit do more damage. So as an unblocked 7/7, if the first hit is 7, the second hit is 14, for an even 21 commander.

Backup Plans

Since dreams are rarely reality, the deck includes a protective package to keep Tana around so she can do her thing. Or if Tana gets removed too many times we can just beat face with saprolings. We also have some alternate win cons like Cryptolith Rite + Aggravated Assault .

Suggestions are appreciated!

You can check out a budget version of this deck here.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #28 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #11 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aggro 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RGW (Naya) 5 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Emblem Huatli, Radiant Champion, Saproling 1/1 G
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