Ombath, Locus of Stream-Standing

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Lands Multiplayer RUG (Temur) Value Engine

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Land (36)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 8x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Temur Ascendancy
• 1x Underworld Breach

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Awakened Inferno

Creature (20)

• 1x Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Cavalier of Thorns
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Flamekin Harbinger
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Guided Passage
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Awakening
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Storm Cauldron
• 2x The Great Henge

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Creature (9)

• 1x Cavalier of Gales
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Vigor

Artifact (4)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Instant (4)

• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Sudden Substitution

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Mystic Remora

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This is a battlecruiser-style landfall deck built for a ~75%, moderately competitive meta. The plan for the deck is to sit back and ramp to eight lands to start drawing off of Omnath's pseudo-landfall trigger while gaining advantage from the rest of the value pieces along the way until it's too much for your opponents to overcome. I haven't acquired a lot of the more expensive green staples or fetch lands yet, but I think it's at a pretty good place even without those for now.

Pros and Cons

This deck might be for you if:

• You'd rather spend the first few turns building a nigh-unstoppable value engine than attacking your opponents head-on.

• You enjoy standing in streams.

• You get annoyed when you only draw one card per turn.

• You like complex board states with a cacophony of triggers to keep track of.

• You'd rather have many different answers for possible situations than a single win condition that you aim for every game.

You might not enjoy this deck if:

• You are an aggro player.

• You have a hyper-competitive playgroup.

• You prefer to have a single, clear-cut win condition.

• You are stressed out by complicated board-states.

• You'd rather look at the art on your playmat than a pile of lands and tokens you just played/generated.

Notable Interactions

• Oboro, Palace in the Clouds + Burgeoning : You can repeatedly bounce Oboro back to your hand and use Burgeoning to replay it on every opponent's turn if they play a land, guaranteeing you a landfall trigger even if you have no other cards in hand.

• Animar, Soul of Elements + Omnath, Locus of the Roil : Use Omnath's landfall trigger to put a +1/+1 counter on Animar and make your creatures cheaper.

• Omnath, Locus of Rage + Risen Reef : Playing a land activates Angry Omnath's landfall trigger to create a 5/5 elemental token, which triggers Risen Reef's ability, which potentially nets you another land off the top of your deck, which would activate Omnath's ability again, and so on.

Exclusions

• Retreat to Coralhelm : While this card does have the potential to generate infinite landfall triggers when paired with Storm Cauldron or Oboro, Palace in the Clouds and Walking Atlas -like effects or even infinite mana when Lotus Cobra is thrown into the mix, I've found that it requires too many pieces that are hard to tutor for to go off reliably.

• Zendikar's Roil : Too high of a CMC for the effect.

• Explosive Vegetation : Too high of a CMC, never found myself wanting to cast it when I drew into it unless I was already very ahead.

• Lotus Field : Makes it hard to reach Omnath's eight-land draw trigger and Field of the Dead's zombie swarm.

Tips

• When searching your library for basic lands, always grab the snow-covered variant of the land you need first so that it's easier to meet the seven differently named lands requirement of Field of the Dead .

• Don't be afraid to Green Sun's Zenith or Finale of Devastation for cards like Risen Reef or Lotus Cobra in the early game to build up advantage; this is not a super fast deck and those help a lot early on.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Clue, Elemental 5/3 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Emblem Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B