Because this is the first EDH deck I ever built (in 2010), it's the one I'm pimping out and to replace the commander after all this time just didn't feel right. I acknowledged my simultaneous desire to play better Magic by promising to swap if I opened a foil Multani at the Dominaria prerelease. I didn't even open a normal one in five events plus prizes, so that solved that as far as I'm concerned.
So yeah, this is my Molimo deck, the one that kickstarted my love of this format. It's full of pet cards like the Fog variants and the morph package, weird meta calls like Tranquil Path because my wife runs a Hanna, Ship's Navigator deck with roughly a billion Arrest variants and Bind, because nobody expects the mono-green player to say 'in response'.
The general gameplan is I ramp a bit, play some stuff out that's fairly innocuous, let everyone else fight for a bit then drop a giant hasty Molimo followed by Overwhelming Stampede and kill the table. If I'm really lucky, I also get to Genesis Wave for 20 at some point, which even if I lose makes me happy. Why yes I am a massive Timmy, how did you know?
Obviously the goal is still to make a pretty decent deck, I'm just less fussed about 100% efficiency in this one y'know? Also as I said I'm pimping this one, so anything pre-Urza's or only available in a precon is right out. I'm hoping Song of the Dryads makes it into foil some day, and the Killer Bees will be Unyaro Bees when I get around to it. Until then, it's the German version because Killerbienen is fun to say.
All solid calls, I must have either not noticed Ulvenwald Hydra or misread it as only getting basics. That said, Rampaging Brontodon doesn't seem to be a card, and Traverse the Outlands won't go in unless a foil version appears on the scene at some point.
Oh wait is that that five player thing that came out? I remember now. Yeah, if I feel the need for another big dude in here I'll definitely consider it, cause he's gonna get bloody huge.
Blackblade Reforged counts lands you control for buff. Can be equipped cheaper to legendary creatures.
Tireless Tracker can generate clue tokens which you can pay 2 to sac and draw a card. Then get buff for each clue you sac.
Challenger Troll limits the opponent to using only one blocker for each attacking creature with power 4 or more. Familiar Ground is an enchantment version.
Predatory Focus allows you to deal combat damage to an opponent regardless of blockers.
Kalonian Twingrove has P/T equal to the number of Forest you control and makes a token with the same effect.
Some Landfall cards could be useful with the deck's focus on land drops.
So I played a couple of games last night and got to test out Vivien, Champion of the Wilds. In the second game I activated her five times and saw one creature, so now I'm trying to work out if I just got severely unlucky or if my creature count is too low to use her minus ability with any degree of reliability.
1 Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
Creatures:
1 Serpentine Basilisk
1 Vorapede
1 Pelakka Wurm
1 Woodfall Primus
1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
1 Killer Bees
1 Yeva, Nature's Herald
1 Saber Ants
1 Arachnus Spinner
1 Duplicant
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Dungrove Elder
1 Nantuko Vigilante
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Eternal Witness
1 Wood Elves
1 Brawn
1 Bellowing Tanglewurm
1 Jugan, the Rising Star
1 Elven Riders
1 Acidic Slime
1 Broodhatch Nantuko
1 Spore Frog
1 Den Protector
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Terastodon
1 Tooth and Nail
1 Praetor's Counsel
1 Tranquil Path
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Desert Twister
1 Genesis Wave
1 Rishkar's Expertise
1 Overrun
1 Skyshroud Claim
1 Harmonize
1 Journey of Discovery
1 Overwhelming Stampede
1 Nissa's Pilgrimage
1 Rampant Growth
1 Hour of Promise
Instants:
1 Beast Within
1 Tangle
1 Crop Rotation
1 Strength of the Tajuru
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Bind
1 Strength of Cedars
1 Krosan Grip
1 Moment's Peace
1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc
1 Triumph of Ferocity
1 Vernal Bloom
1 Bear Umbra
1 Arachnus Web
1 Asceticism
1 Lignify
Arifacts:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Caged Sun
1 Strata Scythe
1 Brittle Effigy
Planeswalkers:
1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
Lands:
1 Petrified Field
1 Blighted Woodland
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Mosswort Bridge
1 Throne of the High City
1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Gaea's Cradle
25 Forest
Let's get the answer to the obvious question out of the way first shall we?
Molimo? Why not run Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar?
Because this is the first EDH deck I ever built (in 2010), it's the one I'm pimping out and to replace the commander after all this time just didn't feel right. I acknowledged my simultaneous desire to play better Magic by promising to swap if I opened a foil Multani at the Dominaria prerelease. I didn't even open a normal one in five events plus prizes, so that solved that as far as I'm concerned.
So yeah, this is my Molimo deck, the one that kickstarted my love of this format. It's full of pet cards like the Fog variants and the morph package, weird meta calls like Tranquil Path because my wife runs a Hanna, Ship's Navigator deck with roughly a billion Arrest variants and Bind, because nobody expects the mono-green player to say 'in response'.
The general gameplan is I ramp a bit, play some stuff out that's fairly innocuous, let everyone else fight for a bit then drop a giant hasty Molimo followed by Overwhelming Stampede and kill the table. If I'm really lucky, I also get to Genesis Wave for 20 at some point, which even if I lose makes me happy. Why yes I am a massive Timmy, how did you know?
Obviously the goal is still to make a pretty decent deck, I'm just less fussed about 100% efficiency in this one y'know? Also as I said I'm pimping this one, so anything pre-Urza's or only available in a precon is right out. I'm hoping Song of the Dryads makes it into foil some day, and the Killer Bees will be Unyaro Bees when I get around to it. Until then, it's the German version because Killerbienen is fun to say.
Dragonlover
21/05/19
Out: Primeval Titan
In: Hour of Promise
Lathliss Dragon Queen - All dragons all the time!
Mono-White Mono-Legends
Ruhan of the Fomori
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
Storrev, Devkarin Lich
Hour of Promise is Titan in Sorcery form.
Ulvenwald Hydra fetches one land and has P/T based on the number of lands you control. Also Reach for Fliers.
Traverse the Outlands and Boundless Realms will help thin the deck out of those basic Forests from the deck to the field.
Hydra Broodmaster as a mana sink option when you can make a good amount of mana.
Rampaging Brontodon it can get massive when it attacks based on the number of lands you control.
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar since it fits the deck and has built in recursion.
Dragonlover
Lathliss Dragon Queen - All dragons all the time!
Mono-White Mono-Legends
Ruhan of the Fomori
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
Storrev, Devkarin Lich
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rampaging Brontodon
Dragonlover
Lathliss Dragon Queen - All dragons all the time!
Mono-White Mono-Legends
Ruhan of the Fomori
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
Storrev, Devkarin Lich
Blackblade Reforged counts lands you control for buff. Can be equipped cheaper to legendary creatures.
Tireless Tracker can generate clue tokens which you can pay 2 to sac and draw a card. Then get buff for each clue you sac.
Challenger Troll limits the opponent to using only one blocker for each attacking creature with power 4 or more. Familiar Ground is an enchantment version.
Predatory Focus allows you to deal combat damage to an opponent regardless of blockers.
Kalonian Twingrove has P/T equal to the number of Forest you control and makes a token with the same effect.
Some Landfall cards could be useful with the deck's focus on land drops.
Rampaging Baloths - can generate 4/4 tokens for each land drop.
Seer's Sundial - if you have excess mana you can spend it for a draw following a land drop.
Lotus Cobra - generate G for each land drop.
Dragonlover
Lathliss Dragon Queen - All dragons all the time!
Mono-White Mono-Legends
Ruhan of the Fomori
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
Storrev, Devkarin Lich