The Hills Are Alive

Commander / EDH Budget Land Destruction Mono-Green Ramp Theme/Gimmick Tokens

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Sorcery (23)

• 1x Collective Unconscious
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Howl of the Night Pack
• 1x Hunting Wilds
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Rude Awakening
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Awakening
• 1x The Great Aurora
• 1x Waiting in the Weeds
• 1x Wave of Vitriol

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Creature (13)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1x Llanowar Druid
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Sylvan Advocate
• 1x Thelonite Druid
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Tireless Provisioner

Instant (7)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Natural Affinity
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Vitalize

Land (40)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 38x Forest
• 1x Myriad Landscape

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loreseeker's Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Powder Keg
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Earth Surge
• 1x Gaea's Touch
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x The Mending of Dominaria
• 1x Vernal Bloom
• 1x Zendikar's Roil

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****IMPORTANT****

This deck is made specifically for a format at my local card shop where it's the same as regular EDH but every card over $2 (according to the lowest TCGPlayer median price) is banned. Rules & price tracker can be found at 2dollarmagic.com.

If you're not interested in playing in this format, use this deck as a skeleton to find some really good, fun, and cheap cards to throw into your deck and improve it with more expensive cards that do a better job.

Some non-budget options that would be great for these deck are Beacon of Creation, Vernal Bloom, Ezuri's Predation, Powder Keg, Mobilize, Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Beastmaster Ascension, Avenger of Zendikar, and Triumph of the Hordes.

****IMPORTANT****

This deck stemmed from the idea of wanting to make a deck that was gimmicky with a commander that was underused but could still win games. I went through all of the commanders that were under $2 and found the gem that is Jolrael, Empress of Beasts.

This deck is a token deck through-and-through. The whole focus of this deck is to create a massive board state of little tokens or animated lands. Swinging in with lands is the primary goal of the deck so we need ways to animate them. Jolrael, Empress of Beasts, Sylvan Awakening, Rude Awakening, and Natural Affinity can make your lands into deadly attackers. In order to get to this goal we need to ramp like mad to get as many lands on the field as possible. Every half-decent ramp spell under $2 is thrown in this deck as well as a higher-than-average land count currently landing at 38 forests and a Blighted Woodland.

While the main goal of this deck is to swing at your opponents with a massive board of lands, this deck comes with other ways to make tokens as well. Cards like Ant Queen, Rampaging Baloths, Waiting in the Weeds, and Howl of the Night Pack will help put some bodies out on the board. This helps supplement our main gameplan and makes our buff cards even more effective.

Speaking of buff cards, this deck includes Overrun, Overwhelming Stampede, Primal Bellow, Siege Behemoth, Earth Surge, and Sylvan Advocate to push that extra bit of damage. Most notably, Primal Bellow and Overwhelming Stampede go very well together.

This deck can also have incredibly explosive turns with massive card draw cards such as Shamanic Revelation and Collective Unconscious after turning your lands into creatures and massive "ritual" effects like Early Harvest, Vitalize, Llanowar Druid, and Rude Awakening giving you massive amounts of mana. In that way, this deck can switch into combo/storm mode where you just chain card draw and rituals until you get enough gas to wipe out the table.

Take everything I said above and add in some more removal & card draw and you've got yourself the deck! This deck is far from being competitive but I can tell you it's fantastic for the occasional wacky fun game (especially if you're fed up with mana screw).

Suggestions and comments are greatly welcome!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Cat 1/1 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 2/2 G, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Food, Insect 1/1 G, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Wolf 2/2 G
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