Yggdrasil's Ire

Commander / EDH Casual GW (Selesnya) Lifegain Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick Tokens

Slogmog

Card Advantage (21)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Hunting Grounds
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Masked Admirers
• 1x Myojin of Life's Web
• 1x Primal Surge
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Graveyard Recursion (8)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Trostani's Best Freinds (6)

• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Worldspine Wurm

Flash enabler (3)

• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Winding Canyons

Keywords (1)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial

Color Fixing/Fetching (20)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Budoka Gardener  ^Flip
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Riftstone Portal
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Removal (12)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x False Prophet
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Luminate Primordial
• 1x Mangara of Corondor
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Anthem (4)

• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x The Immortal Sun

Basic Land (15)

• 8x Forest
• 7x Plains

Commander (1)

Protection (13)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Glory
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate

Token Production (8)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Budoka Gardener  ^Flip
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Worldspine Wurm

Win Condition (5)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Primal Surge

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 1x Angel of Jubilation
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Enduring Renewal
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Magus of the Disk
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

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Maybeboard

Other (6)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Battle Mammoth
• 1x Cosmos Elixir
• 1x Defensive Formation
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x The Great Henge

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Many aeons ago Yggdrasil, our great father of creation, gave life to our world. He intended to create good natured people that could help nourish and grow the forest to new heights. His intentions although in good spirit, let loose man that disregarded his ideals and invented those dreadful machines which they used to destroy our homes.

We will not sit idly by and watch our world be destroyed by our fathers creation. we move to restore balance and order, to Reclaim what has been lost to the ages. If man wants to cut down the forest, we will need to build an army to defend it.

Come to us brothers and sisters. Lend us your mana, your strength. Join the Onclave in the fight to Reclaim the world from the destruction of man. we will produce order in the world and show how man can live with-in nature with peace and order, just how Father intended.

Father has foreseen this event and has given us his wishes to mobilize the greatest army the world has ever seen. The very trees them selves will walk with us into battle to fight against the very machines that threaten to destroy them. Man's finite number of weapons will crumble to the endless forces of Selesnya's Onclave.

Why Trostani? Wheres all the Tokens? Show

I have seen countless other Trostani EDH Decks that include all the Selesnya guild token producers with their populate mechanic printed in the Return to Ravnica block. Don't get me wrong, it's a good deck. But not what I wanted to do. So when I made this deck, I decided I would break the mold and do something completely different. To capitalize upon Trostani's passive ability rather than its Populate ability was the driving force that influenced the construction of the whole deck, with tokens taking a back seat. Another factor that influenced most of the early changes revolved around my local meta game, field wipes and spot removal were everywhere. So instead of admitting defeat and going home, I made adjustments to where the deck didn't mind a Planar Cleansing or even a terminus, and spot removal is next to useless with the right cards out, but it was a necessity as it was everywhere. No better wake up call then a Sudden Spoiling followed by a Massacre Wurm to really find out how vulnerable a creature based deck is.

I admire the flavor of the other Trostani decks where they populate the tokens everywhere in the theme that true green decks if left to there own devices, will over grow there board state like the wilderness reclaiming nature from civilization. How ever flavorful that is, it is still vulnerable to any kind of field wipe effect which is where this build is fundamentally different.

After a decade of incremental changes this is what I've developed. I would like to explain a couple over arching deck construction points.

1. If there is a creature that can produce the same effect that a sorcery could, I want it. This keeps the creature density high which is exactly what I want.
2. There is a set of cards in the deck that (while are good on their own) when put together, creates a recursion loop that allows the deck to put any card from any zone into any other zone. largely facilitated by utility creatures. Even if the loop is disrupted from being complete, unless they can exile all of it in its entirety, they would only delay the inevitable. It will eventually happen. Because the loop is self recurring.
3. The sideboard is swapped in before the game starts if I'm playing at a competitive table.

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I have been told by people that I play with that this deck is a slow 8 on the power scale.

The name of the deck was suggested to me by Rothon.

Comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Top Ranked	Achieved #24 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 4 Mythic Rares 44 - 10 Rares 12 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.41
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elemental X/X G, Marit Lage, Minion X/X B, Plant 0/1 G, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample
Folders	Liked Decks, Ideas, Interesting, EDH Selesnya, Lifegain, Command Life, Casual, lifegain