Like winning by turn 4? Play this deck!
Ramp Card Combos:
- Utopia Sprawl
- Fertile Ground
- Arbor Elf
- Garruk Wildspeaker
Garruk Wildspeaker is AMAZEBALLS in this deck. Garruk untaps any 2 lands, including those enchanted by Utopia Sprawl or Fertile Ground as well as Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx . He ramps more than any thing else in the deck while adding 2 to the devotion count!. He the champion of this deck.
Drawing Card Combos:
- Eidolon of Blossoms
- Elvish Visionary
- Abundant Growth
- Courser of Kruphix which is basically like card draw but not really.
Eidolon of Blossoms draws a card for every Utopia Sprawl and Abundant Growth as well as itself! It also provides draws a card for each God, and Courser of Kruphix that comes into play while she's on the board. With Abundant Growth you actual draw 2 cards! She is a powerful card-draw engine in this deck.
The draw cards are here to both build up devotion and ensure that our hand isn't empty (as can easily happen in a green ramp deck). They really smooth out the deck.
HERES HOW TO WIN:
The way the constant untapping and drawing works; and given the power of Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , etc. it can be tough to see how this deck wins by turn 3-4 without playing hands. Here is one example:
TURN ONE:
Forest
Cast Arbor Elf .
Cards in hand = 5-6
Devotion = 1
TURN TWO
Forest
Cast Utopia Sprawl
Place Utopia Sprawl on untapped Forest (now "Enchanted Forest" that taps for 2-green mana.)
Tap Enchanted Forest for 2-green mana.
Tap Arbor Elf to untap Enchanted Forest for an additional 2-green mana.
Use total of 4-green mana total to cast Garruk Wildspeaker . +1 Garruk Wildspeaker to untap Enchanted Forest and other Forest . Tap lands for 3-green mana.
Cast Courser of Kruphix
Cards in Hand = 2
Devotion = 6
TURN THREE:
Play Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx off top of deck.
Tap Enchanted Forest for 2-green mana.
Cast Elvish Visionary (draw a card).
Untap Enchanted Forest with Arbor Elf .
Tap Enchanted Forest again for 2-green mana.
Use these 2-mana to trigger Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for 7-green mana (Devotion = 7 due to addition of Elvish Visionary )
Cast Primalcrux
+1 Garruk Wildspeaker to untap Enchanted Forest and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (he can untap ANY two lands).
Use 2-mana from Enchanted Forest to re-trigger Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx . With the addition of Primalcrux , Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx now generates 13 total mana.
Cast Elvish Visionary (draw a card)
Cast Eidolon of Blossoms (draw a card)
Cast Abundant Growth (draw 2 cards due to Eidolon trigger)
Cast Utopia Sprawl (draw card due to Eidolon trigger)
Cast second Eidolon of Blossoms (draw two cards from both Eidolon triggers)
Cards in Hand = 4
Devotion = 20
This is where the card draw becomes important...we played 8 cards this turn and still have 4 cards in hand.
TURN FOUR - Draw for a total of five cards.
Play
Stomping Ground
Cast Abundant Growth (draw 3 cards due to two Eidolon)
Cast Summoner's Pact to tutor for Xenagos, God of Revels
Tap Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx twice with the help go Garruk Wildspeaker for 42 mana (as Abundant Growth pushed our devotion to 22).
Tap the now Double-Enchanted Forest 3 times thanks to Garruk Wildspeaker and Arbor Elf for a total of 9-green mana (however 4 of this is used to trigger the Nykthos twice, netting you 5 additional mana).
Tap our remaining Forest for 2-mana leaving us with 50 green mana and tap
Stomping Ground
1-red mana.Cast Xenagos, God of Revels 46 green mana remaining. (draw two cards due to Eidolon trigger)
Cast Summoner's Pact tutoring for Nylea, God of the Hunt
Cast Nylea, God of the Hunt (draw two cards). 42-mana left.
Cast a Mistcutter Hydra for 41/41 haste, uncountable.
Cast
Aspect of Hydra
to give Miscutter Hydra +24/+24.
Entering Combat, trigger Xenagos, God of Revels ability to make Miscutter Hydra (currently 65/65) into 130/130.
Attacking with only our Mistcutter Hydra and our Primalcrux (who is now 25/25 trampler because of the Mistcutter and Xenagos green symbols)...
