At it's core this is a ramp deck. Potential early strong plays against the combo, combined with a strong mid-game plan for grinders. Enough synergy and value to match up against control.
Birds of Paradise Noble Hierarch in tandem with
Lotus Cobra
allow you to ramp early. Mana ramp, and color fixing, extra bodies, basic enablers.
Key pieces allow you to sift through your deck.
Courser of Kruphix
in tandem with
Domri Rade
provide a makeshift draw engine that is very effective. The lifegain and removal abilities are essential. Path to Exile is good for removal and occasionally for fetching another land.
5-drop for Cobra
Resistant to Path, and a mana sink? Providing an aggressive play for the turn 3 Fetchland/Lotus Cobra 5 mana play Stormbreath Dragon is a really good threat.
The beaters.
Dungrove Elder provides the removal resistant finisher, Primeval Titan is a threat unto itself, but even if it's removed quickly after resolving still enhances our chances of winning by thinning our deck by fetching fetchlands, retrieving Kessig Wolf Run and upping the forest count.
tokens and draw.
Garruk, Primal Hunter
enable us to fill our hand, and fill our board.
The mana sinks...
Bonfire of the Damned provide the sweep. Courser helps see a potential miracle, and we can produce so much mana late game, Bonfire is never a dead card. Kessig Wolf Run can turn any of our creatures into finishers.
The unsung heroes.
Dryad Arbor is a forest and a creature and is relevant. Batterskull will provide value as well as another threat.
