Population Explosion (Tokens/Lifegain EDH)

Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya) Lifegain Tokens

Yosituna

Token Creators (23)

• 1x Advent of the Wurm
• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Angel of Sanctions
• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Armada Wurm
• 1x Crested Sunmare
• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Gargoyle Castle
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Grove of the Guardian
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Sandwurm Convergence
• 1x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Storm Herd
• 1x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Wayfaring Temple

Protection (9)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x Sandwurm Convergence
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Ramp/Fixing (5)

• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Selesnya Signet

Lifegain Payoffs (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Storm Herd

Wincons (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Storm Herd

Mana Sources (36)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Command Tower
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gargoyle Castle
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Grove of the Guardian
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 12x Plains
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of the False God

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Camaraderie
• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Huatli, Radiant Champion
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Lifegain (8)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Camaraderie
• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Rhox Faithmender

Token Doublers (5)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Second Harvest

Wraths (3)

• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth

Commander (1)

Anthems/Boosters (9)

• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Huatli, Radiant Champion
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x True Conviction

Copiers/Populators (9)

• 1x Full Flowering
• 1x Growing Ranks
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x Selesnya Eulogist
• 1x Song of the Worldsoul
• 1x Sundering Growth

Combat Tricks (6)

• 1x Advent of the Wurm
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rootborn Defenses

Removal (5)

• 1x Angel of Sanctions
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Sundering Growth
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Enablers (2)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Panharmonicon

Graveyard Hate (1)

• 1x Selesnya Eulogist

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Other (74)

• 1x Ajani's Pridemate
• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
• 1x Call of the Conclave
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Collective Blessing
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Devout Invocation
• 1x Doomed Traveler
• 1x Druid's Deliverance
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Dual Nature
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Emmara Tandris
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Fresh Meat
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Geist-Honored Monk
• 1x Gelatinous Genesis
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 1x Glare of Subdual
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Gutter Grime
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Intangible Virtue
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Launch the Fleet
• 1x Leyline of the Meek
• 1x March of the Multitudes
• 1x Marshal's Anthem
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Nacatl War-Pride
• 1x Parallel Evolution
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Pulse of the Tangle
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sacred Mesa
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selesnya Charm
• 1x Soul Foundry
• 1x Spawning Grounds
• 1x Spawnwrithe
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thraben Doomsayer
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Tolsimir Wolfblood
• 1x Trostani's Summoner
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
• 1x White Sun's Zenith
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wurmcalling

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It's token time!

This is my Trostani, Selesnya's Voice EDH deck. The goal is to populate lots of tokens, especially large tokens, in order to gain life with Trostani and amass a token armada. (The dream, of course, is to get hold of a huge token with power and toughness equal to my humongous life total or fairly close and populate the crap out of it, and there are a couple of ways in this deck to do that.) This is aided by doubling enchantments such as Doubling Season and Parallel Lives and Rhys the Redeemed 's token doubling ability. I especially like shenanigans involving populating tokens of nontoken cards, or making permanent token copies of temporary tokens (i.e., populating Mimic Vat tokens).

Win conditions involve Serra Avatar or her token copies (thanks to Mimic Vat and others); Avenger of Zendikar ; Archangel of Thune ; Storm Herd ; Ajani Goldmane 's or Garruk, Primal Hunter 's ultimates; or alternately, a billion tokens to the face (most likely Nacatl War-Pride tokens). Alternately, if turning creatures sideways isn't working so well, Aetherflux Reservoir and Felidar Sovereign allow to use all that life you've gained to send damage directly to your opponents' faces or just win, respectively.

I'm definitely interested in improving this deck. Being that I'm in white/green, a major limitation to deal with is card draw; I've included a ton to help with that, such as Well of Lost Dreams and Elemental Bond , among others, but I would definitely be curious about other useful varieties of card draw that would work well in here. I'm also worried that I'm a little light on removal - the "kill everything but tokens" crowd is an exclusive one, with only Hour of Reckoning and Elspeth Tirel in this deck. This deck is quite vulnerable to opposing wrath effects in the absence of Avacyn, Angel of Hope or one of the instants that makes my tokens indestructible ( Heroic Intervention , Make a Stand , or the original Rootborn Defenses ); I've added Kamahl, Fist of Krosa to discourage token-destroying wraths, but other ways to forestall this would be nice. :)

Currently considering adding to maindeck:

• Giant Adephage
• Throne of the God-Pharaoh (could be useful or less so, depending on whether I'm holding back or going for a full-out attack; it is a non-bo with Intangible Virtue , however, but definitely something I would like to try out)
• Wingmate Roc (not entirely sure of its utility, since it is so dependent on attacking and depending on my board state I may try to hold off on that until I have a noticeable advantage, but the token creation and lifegain-on-attack are very in-line with this deck's game plan)

Currently definitely planning on adding to maindeck the second I get a copy:

• Tendershoot Dryad (a Saproling every turn, including other players', and an anthem for them if I ever control ten or more permanents, which if this deck is running as intended is cake? YES PLEASE)

List of tokens and their producers:

• 0/1 green Plant ( Avenger of Zendikar , Khalni Garden )
• 1/1 white Pegasus with flying ( Storm Herd )
• 1/1 white Soldier ( Elspeth, Sun's Champion , Elspeth Tirel )
• 1/1 white Spirit with flying ( Geist-Honored Monk )
• 1/1 white Warrior ( Secure the Wastes )
• 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior ( Rhys the Redeemed )
• 1/1 colorless artifact Servo ( Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter )
• 1/2 green Spider with reach ( Arachnogenesis )
• 3/3 green Beast ( Garruk, Primal Hunter )
• 3/3 green Centaur ( Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage )
• 4/4 white Angel with flying ( Angelic Accord , Luminarch Ascension )
• 4/4 green Beast ( Ezuri's Predation )
• 5/5 white Horse ( Crested Sunmare )
• 5/5 green Wurm with trample ( Advent of the Wurm , Armada Wurm )
• 6/6 green Wurm ( Garruk, Primal Hunter )
• 8/8 green and white Elemental with vigilance ( Grove of the Guardian )
• */* white Avatar with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total" ( Ajani Goldmane )
• */* black Minion with power and toughness equal to the amount of life paid when the Processor enters the battlefield ( Phyrexian Processor )
• */* green and white Elemental with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control" ( Voice of Resurgence )
• */* colorless artifact Construct with power and toughness equal to the numbers of creatures you controlled at the time of its creation ( Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter )
• */* colorless artifact Horror with power and toughness equal to the numbers of creatures destroyed by Rebirth ( Phyrexian Rebirth )

...plus Nacatl War-Pride copies and tokens of whatever is copied by Mimic Vat or Mirrorpool .

Finally, a list of key combos/synergies:

• Mimic Vat + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice : Trostani here stands in for any populate effect or creature. While the tokens created with Mimic Vat all vanish at end of turn, populated copies of those tokens do not. Exile your opponents' best creatures when they die, using the Vat, and copy them endlessly! (This also works with Seance , which was in a previous version of this deck but got cut.)

• Illusionist's Bracers + Rhys the Redeemed : Doubling up the token-doubling effect? More than double the fun, especially with Doubling Season and other token-doublers out. You may need to get a calculator out to figure out how many tokens/how much life you get, though.

• Hour of Reckoning + Kamahl, Fist of Krosa and Elspeth Tirel + Kamahl, Fist of Krosa : Just as you can use Kamahl to discourage enemy wraths, so you can use them to turn your own nontoken-destroying wraths into full-on land destruction if someone pisses you off enough. Animate their lands just before wrathing and see how they like you now! (Warning: may lose friends!)

• Nacatl War-Pride + Parallel Lives , Doubling Season + Nacatl War-Pride , Anointed Procession + Nacatl War-Pride : A single token doubler means Nacatl War-Pride creates twice as many tokens as your opponent has defenders, each of which can only be blocked by one creature...meaning half of them will get through to deal their damage.

• Nacatl War-Pride + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice : Again, Trostani here stands in for anything with populate. War-Pride tokens go away at the end of the turn; however, any populated copies do not. If you can manage to populate a permanent copy for each of your opponents, attacking with them can be fairly close to a board wipe unless your opponents have some seriously beefy creatures that can withstand the War-Prides. Combine this with the above-mentioned token doubler synergy, and opponents with any kind of board presence at all will likely be wiped out.

• Ajani Goldmane + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice , Storm Herd + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice , Phyrexian Processor + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice : Great ways to gain insane amounts of life, a couple of which also give you enormous tokens. Every time you populate Ajani's ult token, your life total doubles (as do those tokens' P/T). Similarly, Storm Herd pumps out 1/1 Pegasus tokens equal to your life, doubling it at the very least. Finally, Phyrexian Processor lets you pay any amount of life to be able to create tokens that size (I tend to go for approximately half my life); creating just one token with Trostani out brings you back up to where you were before, and creating/populating will get you up there pretty fast. Having out P/T-increasing anthem-style effects or lifegain-increasing effects (like Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite ) or Rhox Faithmender just makes this even better.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	UBR
Key combos	Phyrexian Processor + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Mimic Vat + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Illusionist's Bracers + Rhys the Redeemed Hour of Reckoning + Kamahl, Fist of Krosa Elspeth Tirel + Kamahl, Fist of Krosa Ajani Goldmane + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Storm Herd + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice Nacatl War-Pride + Parallel Lives Doubling Season + Nacatl War-Pride Anointed Procession + Nacatl War-Pride Nacatl War-Pride + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.86
Tokens	*/* W Creature Avatar, Angel 4/4 W, Angel of Sanctions 3/4 W, Beast 3/3 G, Construct */* C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Elemental 8/8 GW, Elemental */* GW, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Emblem Huatli, Radiant Champion, Gargoyle 3/4 C, Horse 5/5 W, Minion X/X B, Pegasus 1/1 W, Horror */* C, Plant 0/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Warrior 1/1 W, Wurm 5/5 G, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample, Wurm 6/6 G
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