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Budget Ramp Monogreen

Modern* Combo Mono-Green Ramp

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Enchantment (2)

Sorcery (2)


A budget version of Hydranix

The idea is to generate lots of mana with Arbor Elf/Voyaging Satyr + Overgrowth/Utopia Sprawl, then cast one of the big guys.

Replaced by Elder Gargaroth and Khalni Hydra.

This deck uses a sort of combo. How likely is a 'good' hand, where good means at least 1 untap elf, 1 forest and 1 of {Overgrowth, Utopia Sprawl}? Results (out of 100k simulations):

--- good hands --- 1 Mulligan, good only: Good first try: 36165 (36.165%) Good with mulligan: 53528 (53.528%) Good after new mulligan: 59277 (59.277%)


Based on @Nescio's comment

This means you need 2+ Forests, an Arbor Elf, an Utopia Sprawl and an Overgrowth. Missing either a Sprawl or an Overgrowth is okay, as long as you have one of them. Missing a Forest is okay if you have the Arbor and a Sprawl, but it slows the deck down (you have 2 mana to spend turn 2 after playing Sprawl, instead of 4). Having a Voyaging Satyr instead of the Arbor is alright but again, it slows the deck down.

I wrote conditions for a 'great' hand and an 'okay' hand.

Great hand

hand.count(FOREST) >= 2 and hand.count(ARBOR_ELF) >= 1 and hand.count(SPRAWL) >= 1 and hand.count(OVERGROWTH) >= 1

Okay hand

enough_forests = ((hand.count(FOREST) >= 2) or ( hand.count(FOREST) >= 1 and hand.count(SPRAWL) >= 1 and hand.count(ARBOR_ELF) >= 1))

OKAY = (enough_forests and (hand.count(ARBOR_ELF) >= 1 or hand.count(SATYR) >= 1) and (hand.count(SPRAWL) >= 1 or hand.count(OVERGROWTH) >= 1))

With those conditions (which if you're still active around here, feel free to suggest any changes to), these are the odds of okay or great hands I calculated, by simulating 100k hands from the deck, with or without mulligan, + optionally after drawing one card.

No mulligan:

Great: 2026 (2.026%)

Okay: 26202 (26.202%)

1 Mulligan:

Great: 2588 (2.588%)

Okay: 39191 (39.191%)

No Mulligan + draw:

Great: 3831 (3.831%)

Okay: 33954 (33.954%)

1 Mulligan + draw:

Great: 3361 (3.361%)

Okay: 44909 (44.909%)

2 mulligan:

Great: 2703 (2.703%)

Okay: 45070 (45.07%)

All in all, almost half of the hands are at least OK if doing one mulligan if not okay initially, and it is really worth it after one draw.

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92% Casual

Competitive

Date added 3 years
Last updated 1 year
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

9 - 6 Rares

4 - 2 Uncommons

16 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 4.00
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Wolf 2/2 G
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