G/B Devotion

Standard BG (Golgari) Devotion Enchantment Mono-Green Ramp Rock

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Creature (30)

• 4x Courser of Kruphix
• 4x Doomwake Giant
• 3x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Hornet Queen
• 4x Polukranos, World Eater
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
• 3x Voyaging Satyr

Land (24)

• 6x Forest
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 4x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Malady
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 3x Windswept Heath

Artifact (2)

• 2x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (4)

• 4x See the Unwritten

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 3x Arbor Colossus
• 2x Nylea's Disciple
• 1x Pharika, God of Affliction
• 2x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Soul of Innistrad

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Nissa, Worldwaker

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Thoughtseize

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Makihito Mihara piloted this deck to a Top 4 at GP Manila on 1/3/15. I am planning on running this deck at a local PTQ soon, so I would like to test it out.

From Seth Manfield's tcgplayer.com article: "This version opts to splash black for Doomwake Giant, and in this way strongly resembles the Green/Black Constellation decks. While both decks are strikingly similar they are still completely separate archetypes. One part of Green Devotion that none of the other decks in Standard can compete with (and a small exception for Jeskai Ascendancy Combo) is the amount of mana creatures it plays. Since the deck has so many untapped green sources it is able to curve out much more easily than a deck with more colors, and thus more tap lands. Since this version has black in it there are a couple copies of Whip of Erebos to go along with four Hornet Queens, which gives it a lot of late game power, while also being able to take advantage of Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx.

There is also additional synergies that Green Devotion has access to once getting the mana ramp online. Unlike a different sort of Whip of Erebos strategy looking to slowly fill up the graveyard with cards like Commune with the Gods and Satyr Wayfinder, Green Devotion can do this by simply casting a See the Unwritten, and it isn't that difficult to trigger ferocious and hit two creatures off See the Unwritten. Even when two creatures aren't hit with a See the Unwritten, a six mana Hornet Queen is still pretty good! Perhaps the largest reason to play Green Devotion though is having access to Polukranos, World Eater. This is the card that truly lets the deck abuse all the mana used from Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, and in many spots this also means wrathing the opponents born. Many times when fighting, Polukranos, World Eater will die after fighting with a bunch of deathtouch insects but that is a reasonable tradeoff."

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 8 Mythic Rares 33 - 3 Rares 0 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Enchantment Snake 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch