With the new Zegana coming out in a few weeks, I've been plotting a few ways to possibly build some form of Counter Trample swarm by having them all slam in one mass. While I have thought of a few ways, here's what I have so far:
Morningtide gives us a couple options: Sage of Fables can provide card draw. Floodchaser can hose utility lands and big mana. There's also Fertilid for ramp.
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
-Commander: Zegana, Utopian Speaker
-Adapt/Evolve/Monstrous Creatures:
Galloping Lizrog
Sharktocrab
Benthic Biomancer
Skatewing Spy
Salamander Drake
Cloudfin Raptor
Elusive Krasis
Experiment One
Fathom Mage
Gyre Sage
Renegade Krasis
Simic Fluxmage
Domesticated Hydra
Nemesis of Mortals
Shipbreaker Kraken
Hydra Broodmaster
-Counter/Adapt Support
Hydroid Krasis
Combine Guildmage
Biomancer's Familiar
Doubling Season
Essence Capture
Deepglow Skate
Gilder Bairn
Biogenic Upgrade
Guardian Project
Vorel of the Hull Clade
Monstrous Onslaught
-Alt-Win Cards:
Simic Ascendancy
So, what do you guys think? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
ya can't do a +1/+1 counters theme without at least a little support from the spike cycle from tempest block (i think)!
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
Doubling Season, Primal Vigor, Hardened Scales
Proliferate gives us Plaguemaw Beast, Inexorable Tide, Tezzeret's Gambit, Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine, Viral Drake (also a potential combo piece), and Fuel for the Cause. Oh, and all of these become a cantrip with Fathom Mage.
Inspiring Call gives us moar card draw.
You might also like Plaxcaster Frogling. For mass flying, I would suggest Levitation; there's simply no more efficient way to do it.
And persist creatures are really good in this kind of deck.
On phasing: