Renata, Ungrateful

Commander / EDH Combo Counters Devotion Enchantment Mono-Green

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 15x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x War Room
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Enchantress (5)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Verduran Enchantress

Ramp (5)

• 1x Llanowar Tribe
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment creature (3)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

Draw (2)

• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Tutor (9)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Land aura (8)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Nylea's Presence
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Urban Utopia
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Wolfwillow Haven

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Mana Bloom
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Omen of the Hunt
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sac outlet (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Land untapper (3)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

Commander (1)

Misc (8)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kazandu Mammoth  ^Flip
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Veil of Summer

Removal (6)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Song of the Dryads

Counters (3)

• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Metallic Mimic

Persisters (3)

• 1x Aerie Ouphes
• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Woodfall Primus

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Other (7)

• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip

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This is a work in progress and my attempt to do a Renata EDH deck. This uncommon demigod has some characteristics that can make her a good leader (although much worse than other top-tier monogreen commanders like Yisan or Marwyn).

Why Renata is actually an interesting commander?

Renata has three characteristics that we can highlight and plan some strategies.

• Renata is an enchantment. Green is the best color for enchantress permanents (enchantress is a "type" of card that benefits the player for casting enchantments or having enchantments on the battlefield). So I use an enchantress shell with cards like Argothian Enchantress and Enchantress's Presence .

• Renata's power is based on our devotion to green. This deck tries to use permanents instead of instants an sorceries for some effects, like Omen of the Hunt instead of Kodama's Reach . Enchantments are cards that aren't too easy to remove (only green and white can do this with some efficiency and players often use artifact removal instead of enchantment removal in Commander), so our enchantments draws cards with the enchantment shell and generate devotion for Renata's power. Some cards will take benefit from this like Greater Good and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds .

• All of our creatures enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on them when Renata is on the battlefield. This and any sacrifice outlet that sacrifices creatures for zero mana makes an infinite combo with Persist creatures like Aerie Ouphes and Woodfall Primus , the only creatures that have Persist in green. Other creatures play Renata's role in this deck, like Melira, Sylvok Outcast and Metallic Mimic .

Deckbuilding decisions

Using dorks on enchantments instead of creatures

This deck doesn't use many mana dorks in form of creatures Llanowar Elves or Elvish Mystic . Instead, this deck prioritizes Auras to enchant lands for generating more mana when tapped for mana. I've chosen this approach because of the enchantress shell of the deck and because enchantments are harder to remove (and welp, I don't have Gaea's Cradle). For generating even more mana with these lands, I've included creatures that untaps lands like Voyaging Satyr and Arbor Elf . The enchantments that fit these criteria are:

• Fertile Ground , Utopia Sprawl , Overgrowth , Wild Growth and Wolfwillow Haven for additional mana.

• Abundant Growth , Nylea's Presence , Urban Utopia does not generate mana and does not fix our mana (welp, we are playing monogreen). But they can replace themselves drawing a card when they enter the battlefield. With an enchantress, we can draw even more cards.

Combo pieces: sacrifice outlets, dealing with counters and Persist creatures

We can separate the cards of this deck in some groups:

• Sacrifice outlets:
• Phyrexian Altar for free sac and infinite colored mana
• Altar of Dementia for free sac and infinite mill
• Blasting Station for free sac and infinite damage

• Greater Good for free sac and infinite draw (depending on the sacrificed creature)

• Counter providers or removers:

• Melira, Sylvok Outcast prevents our creatures from getting -1/-1 counters
• Metallic Mimic provides +1/+1 counters for one of our creatures with Persist

• Ivy Lane Denizen provides +1/+1 counters for green creatures with Persist

• Persisters:

• Aerie Ouphes can be sacrificed for itself if a creature with flying is on the field
• Woodfall Primus to destroy all noncreatures permanents of our opponents
• Lesser Masticore just to infinitely activate our sac outlets' abilities

The combos

• Persist creature + counter + Rancor + enchantress + Phyrexian Altar : Sacrifice a creature with Rancor to generate green. Rancor will return to our hand and the creature with Persist will come back. Cast Rancor and draw a card from the enchantress. Repeat. Use this loop to grab other sacrifice outlet that wins the game like Altar of Dementia or Blasting Station .

• Persist creature + counter provider or remover + Altar of Dementia (to deck out opponents) or Blasting Station to ping opponents.

Deck synergies and how to get small advantages

• With Cloudstone Curio and an enchantress on the battlefield, we can cast enchantments, draw cards, bounce enchantments on the field back to our hand, recast them... drawing a lot of cards in the process.

• Ground Seal is a graveyard hate that helps us against reanimation strategies. Even though we can't target cards in graveyards, this card can help us protecting our combo from graveyard hate. When a creature with Persist hits the graveyard, the Persist ability will trigger, but before resolving, our opponents can exile the creature and it won't reanimate. Ground Seal helps us preventing that. Finally, it is an enchantment and draws a card when enters the battlefield, so using it won't go against the enchantress theme of this deck.

• Despite being a monogreen deck, this deck has fetch lands. We can fetch a land to filter the deck, reducing the number of lands inside of it, increasing the chance of drawing nonland cards, and we can use the fetch effect to shuffle our library when Sensei's Divining Top reveals bad cards on top of the library and we are looking for better options.

• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx can become a Forest with Nylea's Presence or Dryad of the Ilysian Grove . If Nykthos become a forest, we can untap it with Arbor Elf .

• Courser of Kruphix is an enchantment, fitting the enchantress theme of this deck, but with it we can also filter our deck playing lands from the top of our library. Oracle of Mul Daya , despite not being an enchantment, fits a similar role as a filter.

• Destiny Spinner acts as an anti-counter creature. I think that its activated ability is kinda useless.

• Scavenging Ooze is our graveyard hate piece. It is a creature, so we can tutor for it with our tutors.

• We have few cards to deal with permanents in general, mainly creatures. Beast Within and Song of the Dryads are spot removals that deal with creatures, Reclamation Sage and Force of Vigor with enchantments and artifacts. We have only two boardwipes: All Is Dust for non-colorless permanents and Oblivion Stone for all nonland permanents. We have options to get them back from our graveyard in a pinch with Regrowth and Eternal Witness .

• To protect our board from boardwipes, we only have Heroic Intervention , a great green card for this task.

• Mana Bloom is inside the deck because we can cast it every turn, triggering our enchantress. In rare situations, we can use it as a ramp piece.

• Exploration plays well with Courser of Kruphix or Oracle of Mul Daya , even more when combined with Sensei's Divining Top , fetches, Sylvan Library and Mirri's Guile .

• Rancor is a recurrable enchantment and we can use it to hit hard with Renata if our devotion is sufficiently high.

• Our tutors can only get creatures (and in Crop Rotation case, lands). So, we priorite essential tasks on EDH games (graveyard hate, removals, etc) inside creatures (e.g. Reclamation Sage to deal with artifacts and enchantments, Scavenging Ooze to exile cards from graveyards). When we need creatures to combo, we can use tutors to get them.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	Cool Deck Ideas