Hey good luck with the deck! What other unexpected commanders have you seen in your playgroup? Also I appreciate the reference to foamy the squirrel

bjgivesbj I play with a different group of people each month, so I haven't had many strange interactions. For the most part, I've seen the standard commanders. I just like running odd tribal decks that people don't expect. I haven't updated the deck yet, but I switched the anti-blue portion for burn spells as a backup win con to combat.

Warstorm Surge is so slow for this kind of deck. I'd replace the etb trigger for a sac outlet like Goblin Bombardment, which can do early pinging. Ivy Lane Denizen doesn't really synergise with anthem effects either, you'd be just randomly sticking the counter onto a creature if Scurry Oak isn't out on the field.

Quicksilver: Thank you for the comment. Warstorm is coming out once Bloomburrow comes out. The infinity combo with Ivy and Oak is just too good not to run. It would have won me my game the other night if it wasn't for them removing Oak. I am going to add more anthems to the deck.

Some food for thought. To start with, 32 lands is a little on the low side. If they end up spaced out in your library evenly, you'll be drawing a land, at best, once every three turns. Sure, you have a lot of ramp, but your total land count is low enough that you're going to be using more of your ramp to keep up with your one-land-per-turn instead of actually ramping ahead of your opponents. On top of that, I notice that 8 of your current 32 lands (a full 25%) come into play tapped with no condition to allow otherwise. I would strongly recommend swapping in a few more lands, and see what you could possibly do to replace some of those tap lands with something you can use the same turn they come into play.

pinecone2k3: Sorry for the very delayed response. Work and children has had me pretty busy that I haven't looked at anything for some time now. Just used the app to cycle my decks and see what would happen.

Anyway, I think you were right with the land amount, so I added two more lands to make it an even 34. I would go to 36, as that seems to be where I am more successful, but cutting two more cards will be challenging. Would end up having to be ramp spells.

I was already thinking after my first few losses that my lands entering tapped was a downfall. I thought I was being clever by adding Forest/Mountain lands that could be searched for with tons of my ramp spells but in the end it slowed me down. I am currently working to remedy that problem.

Once things settle down and I have wiggle room, I plan on buying Thornspire Verge, Karplusan Forest, Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip, and Spire Garden. I'd take out Wooded Ridgeline, Krosan Verge, Mountain Valley, and Sheltered Thicket. I thought about switching out Commercial District for Three Tree City or Fountainport. Just haven't decided yet.

If I manage to get a decent bonus this year I want to try to get my hands on a Taiga for the deck.