Destroy All Their Lands. Ramp All My Lands | Brewer's Kitchen
Well, hello there! Brewer’s Kitchen here and today we’re gonna destroy all of our opponent’s lands while ramping all of our lands.
The Gameplan
This deck is pretty much built exclusively around the interaction of Springheart Nantuko and creatures that ramp a land when they enter the battlefield.
If we bestow the Monk on Clifftop Lookout, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim, Primeval Titan or Sylvan Primordial and trigger landfall, we can pay two mana to create a token copy of the enchanted creature. This will ramp a land upon entering, causing another landfall trigger. Now we can repeat the process until we run out of mana.
But what if there was a way to not run out of mana? Lotus Cobra, Nissa, Resurgent Animist, Tireless Provisioner, and Spelunking allow us to add mana every time we go through the motions. Once we have two of these on the battlefield, we go mana neutral.
The real fun begins, once we get three of those effects and start creating mana. We can use it to cast our deck with Golos’s ability or at least cast every card in our hand. As mentioned in the title, we can blow up the opponent’s entire mana base if we slap the Nantuko on Sylvan Primordial.
As weird as it sounds, that is not the most powerful combo in the deck. Fecund Greenshell scales exponentially with the Nantuko since every copy we create will trigger every Greenshell, resulting in a chain reaction that gets increasingly less likely to fizzle. Once we get this going with at least one landfall mana ability, we will put all lands from our library on the battlefield, all other cards in our hand, and end up with an army of Greenshells that all pump each other +2/+2 each. To finish the job, we play a single copy of Akroma's Memorial to give haste for a lethal attack.
The rest of the deck is early game ramp like Utopia Sprawl, Explore and Arboreal Grazer to accelerate into the combo.
While this sounds super cool, we’re still playing the Timeless format. That means we sometimes have to face extremely powerful decks. While heavy aggression is hard to fight, having Field of the Dead and tutors for it allows us to grind out against decks like Scam and Control.
Wrap up
This deck is extremely fun to play once we do our thing. Even without the full combo, spending every turn creating more and more copies of a ramp creature will get out of hand very quickly because every turn ramps for more activations in the next one. That said, a lot of the top tier decks will be hard to deal with. Except for Omnitell… turns out the Primordial is a hilarious counter to their entire gameplan.
If you have questions or ideas for this or any other deck, you can reach me on Twitter @Brewers_Kitchen or at brewerskitchen@mtggoldfish.com.
