Animal Planet: The Jobber Deck

Commander / EDH* Casual Goodstuff GWU (Bant)

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Creature (33)

• 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1x Battle Mammoth
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bramble Familiar
• 1x Broodbirth Viper
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cartographer's Hawk
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Coveted Falcon
• 1x Crash of Rhino Beetles
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Elderwood Scion
• 1x Fey Steed
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Keeper of Fables
• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Owl Familiar
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Regal Bunnicorn
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Seht's Tiger
• 1x Shipbreaker Kraken
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Spirited Companion
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Trove Warden
• 1x Utopia Tree
• 1x Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Land (35)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 5x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 9x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 7x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Golden Ratio
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Overrun
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Treasure Hunt
• 1x Whelming Wave

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Untethered Express

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Caribou Range
• 1x Colossification
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Hoofprints of the Stag
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Octopus Umbra
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Prodigious Growth
• 1x Sacred Mesa
• 1x Squirrel Nest

Instant (7)

• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Wing Shards

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Welcome to Animal Planet.

This is a deck that strives to provide a somewhat competitive game against new players, or a way to bring some casual/flavorful antics to a local game store. It also strives to answer the question: How bad can a deck be and still occasionally win?

This deck has two fatal flaws

A diehard commitment to flavor.

Above all else Animal Planet is a deck with animals in the art. No anthropomorphic beings. No dinosaurs. Preferably no beasts type creatures that do not have obvious analogs to real life animals. (Glademuse: Ok, Rampaging Baloths: Not Ok) Some fantasy animals are ok, I've decided that Pegasus and Unicorns are ok as well as cards like Regal Bunnicorn.

Use of auras as a main wincon.

The extremely limited card pool that we have to work with gives us two options, a token deck that revolves around Pathbreaker Ibex and Parallel Lives or a deck that revolves around cards like Colossification, the umbras and Prodigious Growth. Of these two options, the overrun strategy is more played out and also less telegraphed. Umbras also open our deck up to getting 2:1'd pretty easily and if the idea is to be a jobber deck, having obvious vulnerabilities is something we value.

It should be noted that the intent is to play this deck to the best of it's abilities and to continue to upgrade it as much as possible. I believe that the fatal flaws are more than enough sandbagging on their own.

Date added	9 months
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	0/1 W Creature Caribou, 1/1 G Creature Hippo, A Mysterious Creature, Ape 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Elemental 4/4 W, Foretell, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, On an Adventure, Pegasus 1/1 W, Squid 1/1 U, Squirrel 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G