BUG (Sultai) Explorers

Standard BUG (Sultai) Counters Tempo

rotimislaw

Land (21)

• 2x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Simic Guildgate
• 3x Swamp
• 2x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (2)

• 2x The Eldest Reborn

Creature (20)

• 3x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Merfolk Branchwalker
• 3x Seekers' Squire
• 4x Wildgrowth Walker
• 2x Jadelight Ranger
• 2x Zegana, Utopian Speaker
• 2x Trollbred Guardian

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
• 1x Vraska, Relic Seeker

Instant (8)

• 1x Cast Down
• 2x Lazotep Plating
• 2x Sinister Sabotage
• 2x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Price of Fame

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Find / Finality
• 2x Golden Demise
• 2x Enter the God-Eternals

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Sideboard

Sorcery (9)

• 2x Duress
• 2x Price of Betrayal
• 2x Thought Erasure
• 2x Unmoored Ego
• 1x Ritual of Soot

Instant (6)

• 2x Cast Down
• 2x Negate
• 2x Return to Nature

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Abstract

Quite regular 'Explore' keyword deck. Creatures Explore on ETB, receive counters & Wildgrowth Walker also gives us life. That until we're big enough for lethal or cast big things for lethal.

Why Sultai?

In short, because all those colors, and only these colors, have the 'Explore' keyword :)

But generaly, apart from above, I use the colors for following reasons:

• destroys enemy creatures and restores my creatures from graveyard (so, in essence, draw cards from there)

• adds Explore package and causes damage (most of the creatures are Green-related)

• gives counterspells and card draw.

Strategy

Put out Wildgrowth Walker as soon as possible. Then bunch of Exploring creatures to pump Walker, the creatures themselves and keep us alive. Once we have enough lands in play, we can cast bigger creatures, defend from enemy spells and/or kill enemy creatures to clear the path for ours.

Voila! If everything works fine, we should be able to kill the enemy in 2-3 combat rounds dealing lots of damage with few creatures.

Combos

• Jadelight Ranger + Wildgrowth Walker or any other Exploring creature
• Wildgrowth Walker + Zegana, Utopian Speaker because almost always there's at least one creature with +1/+1 counter, so we can draw card on Zegana's ETB and all those creatures gain Trample from Zegana.

I'm open for feedback! Please upvote the deck if you like it or share a comment if you think something might do better here.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Jadelight Ranger + Wildgrowth Walker Wildgrowth Walker + Zegana, Utopian Speaker
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 3 Rares 24 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	City's Blessing, Pirate 2/2 B, Treasure, Wizard 2/2 U, Zombie Army 0/0 B