Stompy Green Devotion

Modern Devotion Midrange Mono-Green Ramp

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Land (21)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 4x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 4x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Stomping Ground
• 3x Windswept Heath
• 4x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Creature (24)

• 4x Arbor Elf
• 4x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 4x Fierce Empath
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 4x Llanowar Tribe
• 2x Primeval Titan
• 4x Steel Leaf Champion

Planeswalker (7)

• 4x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 3x Vivien, Arkbow Ranger

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Oath of Nissa
• 4x Utopia Sprawl

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 2x Walking Ballista

Instant (6)

• 2x Dismember
• 2x Fracturing Gust
• 2x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Blood Moon

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Primal Command

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

Creature (1)

• 1x Sundering Titan

Land (1)

• 1x Lair of the Hydra

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Mostly Mono-Green Devotion

Credit: Based on a green Devotion build that caught my attention from RIEN VANRAEPENBUSCH'S GREEN DEVOTION at https://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplyo18/trial-winning-decklists-grand-prix-lyon-2018-2018-02-17 Further winning decklists are Andrew Skrzypczak's at http://www.starcitygames.com/decks/121562 and Fulgence at https://mtgdecks.net/Modern/fulgence-5-0-decklist-by-fulgence-746769

Arbor Elf plus Utopia Sprawl is key to some of this deck's fastest starts, and I run Birds of Paradise as well to increase the likelihood of having a turn-1 mana accelerator. Late game plays with Kessig Wolf Run means that these early drops can still be threats later on. The inclusion of Steel Leaf Champion helps this version of the deck get early board presence and pump up your devotion count. Newcomer Llanowar Tribe is a powerhouse that can power out turn3 Primeval Titan. Be aware of what you want to name with the Utopia Sprawl, as you often need extra green early in game1 but after sideboarding red cards you may want red in game2 and game3.

Primeval Titan usually finds a Nykthos if you don't already have one, plus Kessig Wolf Run to overrun your opponents. If you've already got Nykthos, you can search up a Stomping Ground to activate the Wolf Run. The only big win-con tutor-targets I run maindeck are Craterhoof Behemoth and Hornet Queen to either overrun my opponents or keep attackers at bay. Often I will side these out for more match-up specific pieces like Ruric Thar, the Unbowed. In a control or combo-heavy meta, it is probably correct to put Ruric Thar, the Unbowed in the mainboard, maybe in place of Hornet Queen.

Other Versions

There are a large number of flex slots available to the Green Devotion list, depending on whether you want to play a grindy game, aggro, combo or anywhere in between. A control variant with Trinisphere and Mwonvuli Acid-Moss or Acidic Slime has become a popular version of Devotion these days.

Leyline of Abundance builds are picking up in popularity. Christopher Gooch posted a high SCG finish with his take: http://old.starcitygames.com/decks/135879

Sideboard Show

Alpine Moon Blood Moon - These are for decks that rely heavily on their manabase to access colors on time, like Esper/Jeskai Control, Tron, or Sultai/Jund/Abzan midrange. For decks that make use just a single special land, like Inkmoth Nexus or Spire of Industry can have just the Alpine Moon come in.

Dismember - This is for times when you just need to kill something big real fast, like a Gurmag Angler, Lyra Dawnbringer, or Endbringer.

Gaea's Revenge and Thrun, the Last Troll - This gives me another option to fight against control.

Veil of Summer - This is a reactive card, and very good against blue and black control decks.

Fracturing Gust Collector Ouphe and Reclamation Sage - Artifact decks are plentiful, so these hit them hard.

Pyroclasm Kozilek's Return - This is good against any decks playing lots of small creatures like Elves, Soul Sisters, Affinity, Humans, Spirits, or burn. Takes out your own mana dorks, but they make poor blockers anyways, so these sweepers are worth it.

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed - This is for any spell-heavy opponent like combo, control, Phoenix or burn.

Surgical Extraction - Used less commonly these days, I may bring this in against decks that have specific cards that can hose me, or against control so I can eliminate a board-wipe or planeswalker after dealing with it.

Walking Ballista - This is great against decks that run small but important creatures like Druid Combo, Infect, Humans or Burn. Also machine-guns mana dorks like Hierarch, Birds or Elves.

Relic of Progenitus Grafdigger's Cage Scavenging Ooze- Graveyard decks are not prevalent in my shop so I don't have much need to fight it, but for larger metas, Relic and Cage are good, quick graveyard tools.

Join the Discussion!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Modern Ramp 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern RG (Gruul) 4 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WUB
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 1 Mythic Rares 29 - 10 Rares 4 - 4 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch
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