Mono Green Elf Ball (Marwyn, the Nurture)

Commander / EDH Mono-Green

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Creature (37)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Canopy Tactician
• 1x Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dwynen's Elite
• 1x Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Champion
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Galadhrim Brigade
• 1x Heritage Druid
• 1x Imperious Perfect
• 1x Leaf-Crowned Visionary
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Tribe
• 1x Lys Alana Huntmaster
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wood Elves

Instant (13)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Collected Company
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Elven Ambush
• 1x Fog
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Moment's Peace *list*
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Elvish Promenade
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Last March of the Ents
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Artifact (4)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 25x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Elvish Clancaller
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Elvish Warmaster
• 1x Immaculate Magistrate
• 1x Joraga Warcaller
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Timberwatch Elf
• 1x Wirewood Channeler

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Hall of Gemstone
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Long List of the Ents

Instant (1)

• 1x Obscuring Haze

Artifact (2)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Null Rod

Land (1)

• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Tooth and Nail

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Glass Cannon

A Marwyn, The Nurterer build is very "Glass Cannon" all or nothing strategy. Either you win right away, or someone boardwipes and you get sent back to the stone ages. Luckily for you, my playgroud runs a ton of boardwipes, so I've built this deck to be able to survive that type of situation.

Game Plan

This deck aims to get Marwyn, The Nurterer out as fast as possible. Once you get her out you can start playing all of your little elves that make her bigger. After a turn of two she gets big enough for you to start playing your entire hand and you can even drop some big doinks.

Establishing a Board Presence

This is a "Go Wide" strategy that needs to be quick at building a board. You ramp and get bodies out with cards like: Arbor Elf, Boreal Druid, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, Heritage Druid, Llanowar Elves, Dwynen's Elite, Priest of Titania, Circle of Dreams Druid, Elvish Archdruid, Imperious Perfect, Llanowar Tribe, Wood Elves, Canopy Tactician, Lys Alana Huntmaster, and Collected Company.

Once you've got 4 or 5 elves out you can really explode with cards like: Elven Ambush which can be played at instant speed at the end of the turn before yours and, Elvish Promenade which is essentially the same card, but it's only at sorcery speed. Elvish Promenade counts as an elf spell to trigger things like Lys Alana Huntmaster, but it doesn't hit the field and trigger Marwyn, the Nurturer

Abuse Marwyn

We play multiple things that untap Marwyn, the Nurture, so we can really rip ahead of our opponents. We do this with cards like: Quirion Ranger, Wirewood Symbiote, Scryb Ranger, Seeker of Skybreak, and Wirewood Lodge.

Card Draw

This build runs so many small creatures that you will very consistently empty your entire hand. Replenishing your hand is essential in progressing towards your win. You can do this with creatures like: Elvish Visionary, Leaf-Crowned Visionary, Beast Whisperer, and Regal Force. We also run spells like: Shamanic Revelation, Rishkar's Expertise, Last March of the Ents, and I am tempted to run Garruk, Primal Hunter too because Marwyn, the Nurturer always get so big.

Lords / Pump Up

We have: Leaf-Crowned Visionary, Metallic Mimic, Elvish Archdruid, Elvish Champion, Galadhrim Brigade, Imperious Perfect, Canopy Tactician, and Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen.

Game Finishers

You need a board full of little elves for these to close the game. Our Finishers are: Allosaurus Shepherd, Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Pathbreaker Ibex, Craterhoof Behemoth, Triumph of the Hordes, Coat of Arms, and Beastmaster Ascension.

Tutors

After you build up your board state you're going to want to close out the game as efficiently as possible. Your best bet is to tutor into your game finishers. The tutors include: Fauna Shaman, Fierce Empath, Green Sun's Zenith, Worldly Tutor, Archdruid's Charm, Chord of Calling which is instant speed, so it can be used at the endstep before your turn, Natural Order, and Survival of the Fittest.

Potection

To protect our most valuable creatures we have: Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, and Yavimaya Hollow.

Heroic Intervention, Wrap in Vigor should be held in had as a response to boardwipes.

To protect our face from getting beaten we have: Fog, Constant Mists, Moment's Peace, and Arachnogenesis. I'd like to find a spot for Obscuring Haze.

Removal

Reclamation Sage, Bane of Progress, Archdruid's Charm, Beast Within, Krosan Grip, Kenrith's Transformation, and Song of the Dryads.

Board Wipes

We are going to be the player that opponents want to wrath for, so we don't really run wraths (Green doesn't really have any board wipes anyways). We do run Nevinyrral's Disk in the event our board gets blown up and we want to keep our opponents in check. It will force opponents to play conservatively.

Annoying Cards

I'm running Collector Ouphe and that's really it. I would like to also run Null Rod, and Hall of Gemstone to really mess with my opponents, but please note that playing these cards draws a ton of hate and could make your friends salty if they haven't built their decks well enough.

Date added	8 months
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 2 Mythic Rares 34 - 13 Rares 21 - 3 Uncommons 14 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.90
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Spider 1/2 G