Gruul Gardening

Commander / EDH Aggro Alliance Counters RG (Gruul)

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Creature (27)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Arboreal Grazer
• 1x Beanstalk Wurm
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Branch of Boseiju  ^Flip
• 1x Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1x Clifftop Lookout
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Devilish Valet
• 1x Disciple of Freyalise  ^Flip
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gala Greeters
• 1x Hardbristle Bandit
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Radha, Heart of Keld
• 1x Raucous Entertainer
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Topiary Stomper
• 1x Venom Connoisseur
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Artifact (3)

• 1x Heaped Harvest
• 1x Team Pennant
• 1x The Ozolith

Land (43)

• 1x Arid Archway
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabaretti Courtyard
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 17x Forest
• 1x Highland Forest
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Instant (4)

• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Veil of Summer

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Emergent Sequence
• 1x Escape to the Wilds
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Flare of Cultivation
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Map the Frontier
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Nissa's Triumph
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Seek the Horizon
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Vastwood Surge

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Zendikar  ^Flip

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This deck goes wide and tall. It's not really concerned with doubling tokens or anything like that since most of our efforts on early turns is ramping. This deck is also mainly green with a red splash. I'm also new to Tapped Out and not sure how it calculates how competitive it is.

Mana & Fixing

Sac & Fetch cards like Harrow/Roiling Regrowth/Entish Restoration/SpringBloom Druid are important for sacrificing duals that have already fixed our mana and getting our basic count up.

Arid Archway: Can be a source of card advantage, as it was intended, but it can also just be a repeatable landfall trigger that can be tutored by Map the Frontier. It can also bounce Disciple of Freyalise to our hand if we're forced to play it on an earlier turn.

Plant Sub theme

Having plants out on the battlefield before Phylath comes down allows us to immediately utilize Phylath's buff and get into the red zone. Most of these creatures fly under-the-radar and aren't removal magnets (excluding Bill).

• Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• Branch of Boseiju  
• Beanstalk Wurm
• Hardbristle Bandit
• Ilysian Caryatid
• Raucous Entertainer

Supporting +1/+1 Counters

• Bristly Bill, Spine Sower - Hands down the best plant in the deck. Also, Bill grows our non-plants and his counter-doubling activated ability can quickly end games.
• Emergent Sequence
• Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• The Ozolith - Allows us to keep our threats coming as they're removed. Alternatively, if we have to pivot and play defense, it allows us to chump with plants and then go on the offense - providing a pseudo-vigilance effect.
• Raucous Entertainer
• Scavenging Ooze
• Vastwood Surge

2 Card Combos

Winning the Game

Aside from accruing lethal damage via normal combat, this deck is capable of KOing out of nowhere.

• 9 Mana: Devilish Valet + Phylath, World Sculptor
• 10 Mana: Battle Ogredriver/Enduring Courage + Phylath, World Sculptor: This can sometimes be lethal on its own, depending.
• 12+ Mana: Radha, Heart of Keld: Activate her multiple times.
• 14 Mana: Phylath, World Sculptor + Craterhoof Behemoth - Usually we should have enough to deal lethal to each opponent.

Calculating & Winning with Devilish Valet

Our cheapest line to eliminate an opponent is with Valet. Calculate by:

Valet's Power = p * (2^c)

Where p = [Valet's starting power] & c = [number of creatures that have entered this turn]

No Power Bonus/Domri's Anthem

You'll need at minimum of 5 basic lands out, creating 5 plants + Phylath get the Valet's power to 64.

Battle Ogredriver or Enduring Courage's (+2/+0)

3 Basics = 3*2^4 = 48 damage

Card Advantage and Tutors

• Disciple of Freyalise   - An absolute all-star in this deck. It allows us to turn our fatty boom-booms into sweet sweet card draw and life too. Also, it has added utility of a green sac outlet in the case something gets dressed down.
• Nissa's Triumph - I feel like a lot of people sleep on this card. Essentially, 2-mana draw two lands. In Magical Christmas land, it's gravy when we have Nissa, Who Shakes the World out.
• Nissa's Pilgrimage - With our density of ramp sorceries, getting spell mastery isn't uncommon.
• Radha, Heart of Keld - Seeing the top card of our library is, at minimum, knowledge.
• Seek the Horizon - 4-mana draw 3
• Shamanic Revelation - Phylath hedges this card's worst case scenario and makes it extremely reliable - often drawing a fresh 7.
• Escape to the Wilds - It's escape to the freakin' wilds! Ramp, Card Advantage, and also plays around OBM and other stax, if relevant.
• Archdruid's Charm - The Swiss Army Knife of cards. Removes the one ring, fights, and tutors for wincons.
• Tooth and Nail - Not running Hornet Queen/Hoof Combo, since I don't have a hornet queen/it goes against the deck's flavor imo, but you do you.

Removal & Interaction

We're not running any sweepers and are light on interaction since we'll likely be the threat.

• Beast Within
• Chaos Warp - Are you even a red mage if you can't fathom chaos warping your own board? Bored or need to hit a land? Warp a plant!
• Domri, Anarch of Bolas's -2
• Archdruid's Charm
• Thorn Mammoth

Haste Enablers

• Ogre Battledriver
• Enduring Courage
• Rhythm of the Wild

Anti-Blue

As Gruul, our pledge of the allegiance includes taking a fat dump on blue. Thus, we must. As Dave Chappelle so eloquently put it, "Cause F*** 'Em, That's Why!"

• Cavern of Souls
• Veil of Summer
• Delighted Halfling
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Include if you can/want:

• Allosaurus Shepherd
• Prowling Serpopard
• Choke
• Autumn's Veil

Pending Additions

• Glimpse the Core
• Enduring Courage
• Staff of Compleation
• Springbloom Druid
• Entish Restoration

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Fanatic of Rhonas 4/4 B, On an Adventure, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure