Count my counters (standard hidden gems#4)

Standard Mono-Green

moo1234

Creature (24)

• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gnarlid Colony
• 3x Ilysian Caryatid
• 4x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 2x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 3x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 4x Wildborn Preserver
• 2x Wildwood Scourge
• 4x Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Instant (11)

• 3x Inscription of Abundance
• 4x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 4x Vastwood Fortification  ^Flip

Artifact (2)

• 2x The Ozolith

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Hydra's Growth
• 3x The First Iroan Games

Land (17)

• 17x Forest

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Sideboard

Instant (12)

• 4x Ram Through
• 4x Ranger's Guile
• 4x Return to Nature

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Nylea's Intervention

Artifact (1)

• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Oran-Rief Ooze
• 2x Stonecoil Serpent

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Ozolith

Unknown (1)

• 1x the colour white

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Hello fellow Bug watchers, this week is a deck all about a big bug that for some reason gives birth to other bugs whenever it makes other stuff bigger.

Last week month I did a deck about Omnispell Adept a really cool card, but then I gave the vote for next weeks, and well there was no next week for reasons too boring to talk about in any case

Introduction to this series

Hi I'm moo and welcome to a new series I've got called Hidden Gems (come up with a better name, I dare you), I've made it because alot of people overlook the standard format because the card pool is smaller, and others who play standard and only play ROGUES or mill (to which I would rather concede on the spot than play against), But to that I say touché. In this series I will make one standard deck a week made of cards I've seen play maybe one or 2 times ever, (often never)the decks will range from Oh my word why is noone playing this to a janky card:Glimmerbell combo. So I hope I hope you enjoy and come back to see this every week (if you don't I'll send the duolingo bird after you)

How to count to 10

This week's card is Iridescent Hornbeetle, which is the second best card from the +1/+1 counters archetype. (Best being Luminarch Aspirant), it's alot more janky than some other week's but it'll get you wins on arena, which is all anybody is playing, and it's cheap. So I picked mono-green when selesnya is clearly better to use, especially for sideboard options like Hushbringer. Buuuuuuuut... Green is my favourite colour. I like this deck, Deal with it.

Getting to 5

5 isn't too hard to get to. But against cycling or mono-red by the time you get there, you might've lost. So there are some cards to help you survive to get there

Wildborn Preserver: The second best card in Eldraine by far, it has flash, so you can ambush an opponent AND late game or even early-game, you can dump left over mana into it. as an added bonus it can also block rogues, what more do you want

The 2 ramp cards:

Ilysian Caryatid: A pretty good ramper, won of 2 good 2 mana mana dorks in standard, and they're both good in this set, I run him in most green decks

Tangled Florahedron  : When this card was spoiled I was like WOW that is awesome, turns out it's awesome.

Counter Spells

Iridescent Hornbeetle: The King of this castle, he makes beetles so fast you won't blink. It even counts counters that appear before he does and then BAM!, 5 beetles appear, that often trigger Yorvo

Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig: 4/4 that will be bigger for 3, and provides counters. YES

card:Renatta,called to the hunt: One day I will make a commander deck round her, but for now she's just a cheap (bost literally and mana-wise) and solid, it will also double the size of those beetles

Fertilid: yep, there's no lands left in your deck

Gnarlid Colony: Not much more to say than a 2 drop that isn'tPridemalkin

Hydra's Growth Good game

The flip-flop cards (the official name)

The New flip-flop cards are really cool, and they're surprisingly good, Khalni Ambush   is either a land or a 3 mana Pounce, Vastwood Fortification   is a nice little permanent boost spell, and Bala Ged Recovery   is (in my opinion) better than Eternal Witness, whilst I only use the first 2, they mean I have to put less actual removal cards and more cards I might actually work late game. I cannot stress how much I love cards like this. Things that get better as the game goes on. Devotion, kicker and Bestow are among my favourite mechanics because they are so fair. In any case there's your land cards

So in conclusion. I like this deck play it on arena, if you have the cards, DON'T spend wildcards on it, in platinum it's got just below a 50% win rate in platinum, but it is really fun to operate, and I personally prefer that over a good deck. The 3 decks I'm currently using on arena to win (2 I got to diamond with last league) which are a double strike and boost deck, Vigilance tribal, and Blue/White/Gren enchantments. In any case Vote for what I do next week

Next week

• Syr Faren, the Hengehammer
• Charix, the Raging Isle
• Underworld Sentinel

Or if you have any cards which noone else is using please mention them here

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 4 Rares 22 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 12 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Gold, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G