Hello hello! This is my first venture into partner territory, and I've always had my eye on [Tana, the Bloodsower as something of an underrated gem. She seems like she could spiral out of control quite fast with the right color combo and support. Enter Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder. With access to white you get tons of anthems, as well as Selesnya goodness to support the go wide with tokens theme. So far the deck has actually performed quite well...mostly. Turn 3 Hero's Blade into turn 4 Tana, turn 5 Bruse, swing for 10, get 10 tokens and gain 10 life was just fantastic. And then someone wrath'd the board and I could never quite recover, and therein lies my problem. The deck is very, very reliant on Tana to do the heavy lifting. If she can't survive enough to make her small army it just crumbles and I'm struggling to find ways to deal with that. Suggestions for cards and strategies would be amazing. Here's the list I have so far. I'm quite proud of it being as it clocks in around $70.
At the heart of it, you are a token deck. The fallacy is, "apply pressure, don't get blown out by over-extending". Ramp helps reset you faster than others. Stronger quality cards will help. Beastmaster Ascension will always apply pressure until removed. Each time you swing, it gets a set of counters, Tana gets bigger. If she connects, now more critters come out.
All your ramp spells should cost you two mana. Rampant growth is your friend.
Consider Harmonize and possibly some wheel effects. You need to be able to refill your hand when you don't have a board full of saprolings.
You need other token producers besides Tana. This is a list of everything that makes saprolings in your colors. Nemata, Mycoloth, night soil, Rith's charm, and pollenbright wings are all pretty good. The fungus guys are usually OK because they also give you ways to turn your saprolings into other resources.
Breath of Fury can "go infinite" with Tana as long your opponents can't block her and you have something like Fires of Yavimaya in play.
Unfortunately every try hard from Sacramento to Shanghai preaches from the top of their 27 lands + Mana Reflection that Tooth and Nail and Time Stretch are fine to play in the same turn but Armageddon is unfair.
Oh! And look into the mycoloths. Many have super useful abilities if you sac saprolings, so in response to a wipe, sac them get some value out of them.
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At the heart of it, you are a token deck. The fallacy is, "apply pressure, don't get blown out by over-extending". Ramp helps reset you faster than others. Stronger quality cards will help. Beastmaster Ascension will always apply pressure until removed. Each time you swing, it gets a set of counters, Tana gets bigger. If she connects, now more critters come out.
Consider Harmonize and possibly some wheel effects. You need to be able to refill your hand when you don't have a board full of saprolings.
You need other token producers besides Tana. This is a list of everything that makes saprolings in your colors. Nemata, Mycoloth, night soil, Rith's charm, and pollenbright wings are all pretty good. The fungus guys are usually OK because they also give you ways to turn your saprolings into other resources.
Breath of Fury can "go infinite" with Tana as long your opponents can't block her and you have something like Fires of Yavimaya in play.
Parallel Lives is obviously a must have.
Oh! And look into the mycoloths. Many have super useful abilities if you sac saprolings, so in response to a wipe, sac them get some value out of them.
This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.