Ancient Woods

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Tribal Vorthos

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Land (37)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Protecting Boughs (9)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Black Poplar Shaman
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Reach of Branches
• 1x Timber Protector
• 1x Tower Defense

Regrowth (4)

• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Overgrowing the Enemy (3)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Tower Defense

Friends of the Forest (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

Wardens of the Woods (24)

• 1x Black Poplar Shaman
• 1x Bosk Banneret
• 1x Dauntless Dourbark
• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Everbark Shaman
• 1x Fendeep Summoner
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Indomitable Ancients
• 1x Leaf-Crowned Elder
• 1x Orchard Warden
• 1x Reach of Branches
• 1x Rootgrapple
• 1x Sapling of Colfenor
• 1x Seedguide Ash
• 1x Thorntooth Witch
• 1x Timber Protector
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Treefolk Harbinger
• 1x Ulvenwald Observer
• 1x Unstoppable Ash
• 1x Verdeloth the Ancient
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Children of the Leaves (10)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
• 1x Vigor

Verdant Secrets (8)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Treefolk Harbinger
• 1x Ulvenwald Observer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Outgrowing our Weaknesses (1)

• 1x Assault Formation

Commander (1)

Nature's Wrath (14)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rootgrapple
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Thorntooth Witch
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Wave of Reckoning
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Growth (10)

• 1x Bosk Banneret
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Everbark Shaman
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seedguide Ash
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Nourish the Roots (5)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1x Orchard Warden
• 1x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Dark Things Crawl 'Neath the Branches (2)

• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

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Do you ever just read some flavor text and N E E D to build a deck? Well, ever since I read Doran, the Siege Tower 's Flavor text i've been in love with the idea of treefolk tribal.

You might notice that there aren't any artifacts. That is on purpose. This is a deck that I tried to make as competitive as I could while still being very vorthos, and the fathers of the forest have no use for the machines of man.

You are obligated to talk in a deeeeep voice and to take a loooooong time talking when you play this deck.

Outgrowing our Weaknesses

Treefolk don't have a lot of power at base, but they've got great toughness. Doran, the Siege Tower and Assault Formation let us deal as much damage as we can take and really set up the core of the deck. i.e. Just kind of hitting people with bigass trees.

Overgrowing the Enemy

Your primary wincon is just beatdown, so Rogue's Passage is here to help Doran connect for commander damage, and Tower Defense helps with a sudden alpha strike out of nowhere. Debt to the Deathless is your backup wincon. Lategame you can easily drain the table out with all the ramp you'll have.

Growth

From seed to sapling to sycamore, this is how you start planting the resources you need to grow a win. Sakura-Tribe Elder and Farseek are your fast ramp, where Mirari's Wake and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger are late game houses that keep your mana pool topped off for when you wanna cast a few 6 mana trees in the same turn.

Verdant Secrets

Resources are key to an undersupported tribe, so you'll need a full grip to hang with that one guy and his tuned Krenko deck. Abzan Charm , Heartwood Storyteller , Phyrexian Arena , and Ulvenwald Observer are here to keep your hand filled, while Demonic Tutor , Fauna Shaman , Treefolk Harbinger , Worldly Tutor let you get specific cards to ease your progress.

Protecting Boughs

Doran is only 3 mana for an unassuming 0/5. When you've done 15 commander damage to two people on the board though, people get jumpy. Casting Doran for the fifth time a game is 11 mana and that's not a place we wanna be, so we run all sorts of protection. Asceticism and Privileged Position give your team hexproof, while Heroic Intervention and, honestly the best card in the deck, Timber Protector give them indestructible. If you've overextended and don't want to die on the clapback, Reach of Branches , and Great Oak Guardian can give you the blockers you need to make it to your next untap.

Nature's Wrath

Sometimes the only way to survive though, is to remove the threat altogether. Someone's always playing some wild combo nonsense, or producing more goblins than is healthy, so we run a bunch of removal to nip those problems in the bud, so to speak. After all, if trees could fight back we wouldn't have a burning Amazon right now. Your best removal spells are Fell the Mighty and Wave of Reckoning as they will usually wipe the board, but completely spare your forestfolk. Lignify and Song of the Dryads are flavorful ways to neuter problem commanders, and Utter End is here for anything else.

Nourish the Roots

Between fetchlands, shocklands, Bitterblossom , Phyrexian Arena , and your reputation as a degenerate combo player, you're going to be losing a lot of life, so cards like Trostani, Selesnya's Voice , and Orchard Warden are here to offset that. You can also pop a Debt to the Deathless early if you're in dire straights, seriously it gains you so much life.

Regrowth

S Club 7's gonna Bring it all Back to you with choice recursion cards. Journey to Eternity   works as a great source of protection before becoming a reanimation engine, and Deadwood Treefolk is a prime target as it nets you cards from the grave as it enters and leaves, no sac outlet required.

Friends of the Forest

Planeswalkers are good. Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury ramps, removes problematic permanents and draws us cards, Elspeth, Sun's Champion creates blockers wipes the board, often sparing our own, and provides a win con via the flying death tree emblem, what's not to love?

Wardens of Wood/Children of Leaves/Dark things

This is just for flavor, differentiating between the Treefolk of the deck, the non-tree denizens of the forest and the unsavory darkness that lurks in the deepest woods. (I couldn't in good conscious put the praetors in with the children of the leaves.)

Thanks for reading I love you all so much <3

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elf Druid 1/1 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Treefolk Shaman 2/5 G