The Best Offense is a Good Defense

Standard Budget Devotion Mono-Green

Kramer65

Creature (28)

• 2x Aerie Bowmasters
• 2x Arbor Colossus
• 4x Archers' Parapet
• 4x Courser of Kruphix
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 3x Karametra's Acolyte
• 2x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 3x Sultai Flayer
• 4x Wall of Mulch

Land (22)

• 18x Forest
• 4x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Assault Formation
• 4x Sight of the Scalelords

Artifact (2)

• 2x Bow of Nylea

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 3x Hornet Nest
• 3x Reclamation Sage

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Fruit of the First Tree

Instant (2)

• 2x Collected Company

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Roar of Challenge

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Maybeboard

Creature (25)

• 4x Circle of Elders
• 1x Colossodon Yearling
• 4x Den Protector
• 4x Heir of the Wilds
• 1x Jeskai Barricade
• 1x Lagonna-Band Trailblazer
• 3x Nylea's Disciple
• 1x Nyx-Fleece Ram
• 3x Sagu Archer
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Wall of Essence
• 1x Yoked Ox

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mastery of the Unseen

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This is an experiment in building a deck around Assault Formation and using a bunch of cheap CMC/High Toughness cards like Aerie Bowmasters and Archers' Parapet .

It uses Sight of the Scalelords to pump them up when they attack.

Using Karametra's Acolyte for a mana boost. She becomes a 4/4 once Assault Formation is on the board and her 4 Toughness triggers Sight of the Scalelords.

Initially I had Nylea's Disciple in for life gain, but playtesting revealed that Sultai Flayer is a better choice...they are both 4 drops but the flayer has 4 toughness and can potential yield more life since it can get multiple triggers from all the other 4 toughness bodies.

I'm trying to keep this as a budget deck, but I do have a set of Courser of Kruphix only because I already have them and they are customer made for this deck. However, if I were building this from scratch and had limited funds, the courser's could be replaced with Colossodon Yearling . It's a three drop 2/4 so you keep the body and lose the effects. That would shave $30+ from the total deck cost.

Still a work in progress but I like it so far. Suggestions are welcome.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 5 Rares 14 - 8 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C