The Circle of Life

Standard Counters GW (Selesnya) Tokens

Tarthrin

Creature (21)

• 3x Conclave Mentor
• 3x Fertilid
• 2x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 3x Luminarch Aspirant
• 2x Steelbane Hydra
• 4x Stonecoil Serpent
• 2x Victory's Envoy
• 2x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Land (20)

• 4x Arctic Treeline
• 2x Bretagard Stronghold
• 2x Crawling Barrens
• 5x Snow-Covered Forest
• 7x Snow-Covered Plains

Artifact (5)

• 2x Replicating Ring
• 1x The Great Henge
• 2x The Ozolith

Sorcery (12)

• 2x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 4x Blessing of Frost
• 2x Struggle for Skemfar
• 4x Swallow Whole

Instant (2)

• 2x Vastwood Fortification  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Chainweb Aracnir
• 2x Faerie Formation
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent

Land (2)

• 2x Snow-Covered Island

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Primal Empathy
• 2x Shark Typhoon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Instant (1)

• 1x Heroic Intervention

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Search for Glory
• 1x Stolen by the Fae

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Basri's Solidarity
• 2x Reclaim the Wastes
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

Creature (3)

• 2x Basri's Lieutenant
• 1x Pridemalkin

Instant (3)

• 2x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Invigorating Surge

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Creatures grow, creatures die, many new creatures are born.

Key combos are: - Iridescent Hornbeetle + The Ozolith Any +1/+1 generating cards - Conclave Mentor or Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Any +1/+1 generating cards

With the Iridescent Hornbeetle combination, adding +1/1 counters to insect tokens that die recycles the +1/1 counters to The Ozolith which then gets gets redistributed and generates more insect tokens. Any cards like Conclave Mentor or Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider greatly accelerates the cycle.

With conclave mentor or Vorinclex, all of the +1/+1 generating cards are much more efficient and I can win with a few large creatures that quickly get pumped up.

I've played this deck about 30 times with a 60% or so win rate. The problems I have when I lose is either playing against lame milling decks with the crabs or it takes too long to get set up or I don't draw the right combos. If I play against heavy creature removal decks I have a hard time getting things set up unless I at least have the ozolith out. I have the fight cards in there for spot creature removal and steelbane hydra in there for artifact/enchantment removal. Most of the rest of the cards are for adding +1/+1 counters.

Edit 21/03/01: Thank you to everyone for your help so far. I took everyone's advice and streamlined the deck and added some anti-flying. I'll be giving this deck a go for the next couple nights.

Top Ranked	Achieved #24 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Standard 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Iridescent Hornbeetle + The Ozolith
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 1 Mythic Rares 19 - 9 Rares 17 - 3 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Foretell, Insect 1/1 G, Replicated Ring, Shark X/X U, Spider 1/2 G