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Omnath, Lord of Mana Ramp [Green Ramp EDH]

Commander / EDH* Mono-Green Ramp Tempo

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Trying out an Omnath EDH deck, using ridiculous mana ramp and card draw to get him huge. It's possible to have over 250 floating green mana on turn 6, and theoretically possible to have infinite mana on turn 3 (if you have some kind of ridiculous hand including 3 forests, Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary, Umbral Mantle and your next two draws are Nature's Lore and Concordant Crossroads). Any ideas?

Obvious inclusions if I were rich: Gaea's Cradle, Mox Emerald, Black Lotus.


Card draw is necessary to keep up the tempo of this deck - you can easily throw your entire hand onto the board by turn 3 or 4 and if there were no drawing acceleration by that point it would be top-deck mode indefinitely. I've included the following cards:

Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, Otherworld Atlas, Slate of Ancestry, Staff of Nin, Temple Bell, Collective Unconscious, Genesis Wave, Glimpse of Nature, Harmonize, Rites of Flourishing, Soul's Majesty, Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Regal Force

These cards allow me put out more lands per turn (self explanatory)

Azusa, Lost but Seeking,
Oracle of Mul Daya, Nature's Lore, Rites of Flourishing, Exploration

Cards that untap other cards allow for some good combos in this deck.

Voltaic Key is essential for untapping Doubling Cube so that it can be used twice per turn, Umbral Mantle can create infinite mana: all you need is a creature that can tap for more than 3 mana (such as Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary, Karametra's Acolyte etc), or a creature that can untap Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx while your devotion is high. For instance - equip rofellos with umbral mantle. Tap rofellos for 5 mana, untap rofellos for 3 mana (at 2), tap rofellos for 5 mana (at 7) rinse and repeat until you're at 1,000,000 mana etc. Patron of the Orochi is ridiculous if the board is full, Voyaging Satyr or Magus of the Candelabra can untap Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for amazing mana if there is plenty of green devotion already, Bear Umbra, Arbor Elf, Seedborn Muse.

These cards let one forest generate more than one mana:

Caged Sun, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Gauntlet of Power, Mana Reflection, Vernal Bloom, Wild Growth.

Not much here yet, pretty much only consists of:

Lure on pumped up omnath, Ratchet Bomb, and Corrosive Gale.


You don't want all that green mana you built up to empty, Omnath should be protected with:

Darksteel Plate, Canopy Cover, Nim Deathmantle, Bear Umbra. Any other ideas? Not much here. Considering Not of This World since it'd almost always be free.


Helix Pinnacle for alternate win condition. Concordant Crossroads allows all mana dorks to tap for mana the turn they're played. Rancor is a must for giving omnath trample, something he really needs. Akroma's Memorial can be played fairly easily since you're generating so much mana. Doubling Cube is amazing - spend 3 mana to turn your 53 mana into 100? And then again into 192 if you have Voltaic Key? Yes please. All of the rest of the cards are mana dork creatures, the best of them probably being Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary. Let me know if you can find any better mana dorks to replace some of the not-so-great ones.

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Note: replaced 4 of my weakest mana dorks (Manaweft Sliver, Orochi Sustainer, Utopia Tree, Werebear) with X cost hydras: (Protean Hydra, Primordial Hydra, Mistcutter Hydra, Vastwood Hydra) for more uses of all the mana.

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Date added 11 years
Last updated 6 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 0 Mythic Rares

42 - 0 Rares

14 - 0 Uncommons

14 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.96
Tokens Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts
Folders Mono Green Commander Mana Ramp, Build This
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