Dying: A Life Style

Commander / EDH Budget Mono-Green

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Creature (29)

• 1x Bounteous Kirin
• 1x Briarknit Kami
• 1x Carven Caryatid
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elder Pine of Jukai
• 1x Forked-Branch Garami
• 1x Golgari Brownscale
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Harbinger of Spring
• 1x Jugan, the Rising Star
• 1x Kami of the Hunt
• 1x Kodama of the South Tree
• 1x Lifespinner
• 1x Loam Dweller
• 1x Myojin of Life's Web
• 1x Nightsoil Kami
• 1x Patron of the Orochi
• 1x Permeating Mass
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Promised Kannushi
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Seedborn MuseGC
• 1x Sekki, Seasons' Guide
• 1x Soilshaper
• 1x Spectral Force
• 1x Starved Rusalka
• 1x Thousand-legged Kami
• 1x World Shaper

Land (37)

• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 1x Fertile Thicket
• 22x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashes of the Fallen
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Long-Forgotten Gohei
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trading Post

Instant (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Momentous Fall

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bramblecrush
• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Metamorphosis
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x See the Unwritten

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Crawling Sensation
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Vessel of Nascency
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Spirit tribal has been an established tribe for a while now, and with so many great white and blue spirits, what better way to utilize them than to make a mono-green spirit tribal. But we're not talking about some boring board-buffing, keyword-giving tribal nonsense. I'll leave that for the merfolk. No, I'm talking about pulling your whole graveyard to your hand and vomiting it onto the battlefield unceremoniously over and over until your opponents have memorized every niche green card in the Kamigawa block.

Raising Some Spirits Show

First part of our game plan is to dump all of our cards into our graveyard. We do this in a pretty standard fashion with stuff like Satyr Wayfinder, Mulch, and See the Unwritten as well as dredge.

Second part of our game plan, which can be skipped if we can get enough ramp or card draw, is to generate value and control the board with soulshift cards. You can sacrifice creatures like Fork-Branched Garami or Elder Pine of Jukai to Birthing Pod or Life's Legacy for cards and mana advantage while also returning spirits that you put in the graveyard earlier.

Once you have a good amount of mana and a healthy number of dead creatures, you can finally use your commander, who stays around for a glorious 2 seconds before being sacrificed to a timely Metamorphosis or Momentous Fall, which returns all of our spirits to our hand. If you've gotten a Myojin of Life's Web along the way, congratulations, you can vomit your entire hand onto the battlefield. Or, if you didn't, cast them like a normal, boring person.

Cards that look weird but are alright, trust me Show

Spectral Force: First of all, if you're playing against someone who is running black, it's a 5 mana 8/8 with trample, which is great. If you're not, worry not, you can sacrifice it to Momentous Fall-like effect or just straight-up Rishkar's Expertise for 8 cards.

Emerald Medallion / Rhonas's Monument: Green is the ramp color, and in other commanders there is a lot better ramp available. But cost reduction is much more valuable in a deck that aims to dump their hand of creatures often.

Crawling Sensation: I have to admit that this is just one of my favorite cards for dumping stuff into a graveyard. It can enable itself, giving us little tokens to chump. In combat, we can be tricky and cycle lands like Slippery Karst for instant speed blockers.

Minion Reflector: In addition to just giving this deck haste in some way, this card can double up on the many ETBs and LTBs this deck has, like Jugan, the Rising Star, World Shaper, or Reclamation Sage.

Metamorphosis: The main reason this is in the deck is to combo with Iname, Life Aspect, immediately giving us 7 mana to cast the creatures we return to our hand. But as I mentioned before, it can capitalize on LTB triggers that our deck has.

I think it goes without saying that this deck isn't as good as some of the other mono-green commanders, but it's not nearly as bad as people would think and actually is really fun to play Seasons Past as your commander.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.79
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C