Tatyova Landfall Sacrifice

Casual Budget GU (Simic) Landfall Sacrifice

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Creature (24)

• 2x Avenger of Zendikar
• 3x Baloth Woodcrasher
• 2x Lotus Cobra
• 4x Ramunap Excavator
• 2x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 4x Scythe Leopard
• 4x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 3x Territorial Scythecat

Land (24)

• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 13x Forest
• 7x Island

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Explore

Instant (8)

• 4x Harrow
• 4x Sarkhan's Resolve

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Hello!

Hope you are having a lovely day! This deck is pretty straight forward: sacrifice some lands with cards like Harrow to get more lands and play the sacrificed lands from the graveyard with Ramunap Excavator. This triggers lots of landfall effects so you can win with Avenger of Zendikar or Rampaging Baloths. The early game is pretty weak (until you get one of the wincons down). I'm trying to keep it as cheap as possible cuz im broke :). Below are my notes for this deck as it's certainly a work in progress. All advice is welcome!

Thoughts On Current Deck:

• Territorial Scythecat: Makes early game feel much better. Takes pressure off drawing wincons.
• Explore: feels really good, maybe my new favourite card lol
• Scythe Leopard: Adds some early game pressure - can easily-ish have a 4/4 on your turn 3
• Evolving Wilds: Getting 2 landfall triggers is really nice, especially with Ramunap Excavator and Explore to get 4 triggers in one turn. Would be nice if tutored land didn't come in tapped lol
• Harrow: The two lands coming in being untapped is really nice lol
• Currently, there are only basic lands aside form Evolving Wilds since the tutors only get basic lands. Not sure if this is correct.
• Tatyova, Benthic Druid: lets you draw crazy amount of cards. More thoughts below
• Should look to see if there's any interesting blue cards worth experimenting with.
• Currently only card to interact with the opponents board is Sarkhan's Resolve. Is this enough?
• I'm not sure if Avenger of Zendikar and Rampaging Baloths are the best win cons.

Cards I've Tried:

• The Gitrog Monster: good, costs a couple dollars
• Oran-Rief Hydra: Good, costs a few extra dollars, trample is nice. Easy target for removal. Makes it feel suboptimal to splash other colours.
• Undergrowth Recon: okay, costs a couple dollars. Annoying when it steals the last land in the graveyard away from Ramunap Excavator so it comes in tapped (if you don't have another land to play in your hand. Granted a niche scenario, but still annoying). Also probably worse without The Gitrog Monster
• Elvish Visionary: Filler, didn't do much. Mid/late game gave too much draw.
• Redrock Sentinel: Felt like a "win more" card since it feels bad to sacrifice a land without getting any in return without an established board (even with the treasure + draw card).
• Springbloom Druid: Slower than Harrow and doesn't provide meaningful defence.

Maybeboard

• Waker of the Wilds: A different win condition. Cheaper to play (sorta)
• Giant Growth, Fog, Ranger's Guile, Vines of the Recluse, Negate, Return to Nature, Rapid Hybridization: Interact with board more
• Sylvan Caryatid, Wall of Blossoms: Early game creatures that are better on defence. (also plants!)
• Tireless Tracker

Land Engines

• Llanowar Scout: Extra land is nice (from hand might be too restrictive? especially for Gitrog)
• Search for Tomorrow: Very cheap but slow
• Sakura-Tribe Elder: More reliable than Explore, but slower. Better for Scythe Leopard
• Nissa's Pilgrimage: w/ spell mastery gets 2 lands on the board + 1 in hand without sac. Thats better ramp than Harrow, but relying on spell mastery. They also come in tapped.
• Cultivate
• Khalni Heart Expedition
• Rites of Flourishing
• Courser of Kruphix: on the edge of the budget
• Explorer's Scope
• Restore (not legal in modern)
• Erinis, Gloom Stalker (not legal in modern)
• Zuran Orb

Interesting non-basic lands

• Ghost Quarter, Simic Growth Chamber: Interesting non-basic lands
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Myriad Landscape
• Blighted Woodland
• Ash Barrens

Non-Budget Maybeboard

• Exploration (not legal in modern)
• Crop RotationGC (not legal in modern)
• Fabled Passage
• World Shaper or Aftermath Analyst
• Lotus Cobra
• Scute Swarm
• Nissa, Vastwood Seer  
• Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• Splendid Reclamation
• Ancient Greenwarden
• Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• Scythecat Cub
• Horn of Greed

Other Colours

• Felidar Retreat, Moraug, Fury of Akoum, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, Dragonmaster Outcast, Omnath, Locus of Rage

Changelog (Most recent at top)

• Replaced card:Rampaging Baloth with Baloth Woodcrasher and Jaddi Offshoot with Lotus Cobra
• Replaced Edge of Autumns with Sakura-Tribe Elder. It's less funky, but more useful.
• Replaced a Jaddi Offshoot with a Harrow. Draw offshoot noticably less, but harrow has bigger impact.
• Replaced Springbloom Druid with a Harrow and 3 Territorial Scythecats. This change feels really good.
• Replaced a Forest with an Island to make Tatyova easier to play
• Replaced a Tatyova with a Rampaging Baloths: Often drew too many Tatyova. In addition, a wincon is necessary to have a decent board presence, Tatyova is not. Idk about this, feels very slow when you don't draw Tatyova. Reverted this change

Date added	4 months
Last updated	3 months
Splash colors	U
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 6 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Landfall