Griffin Canyon Combo

Casual Combo GU (Simic) Jank

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Land (22)

• 4x Botanical Sanctum
• 6x Forest
• 4x Griffin Canyon
• 2x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 2x Island
• 4x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Adventurous Impulse
• 4x Preordain

Creature (18)

• 4x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 4x Imagecrafter
• 2x Juniper Order Druid
• 4x Krosan Restorer
• 4x Voyaging Satyr

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Arcane Adaptation
• 2x Unnatural Selection

Instant (8)

• 4x Artificial Evolution
• 4x Crop Rotation

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Sorcery (2)

• 1x Adventurous Impulse
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

Creature (1)

• 1x Blossom Dryad

Instant (1)

• 1x Standardize

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I was looking through a list of lands with activated abilities and found this gem: Griffin Canyon

This deck is built around looping Griffin Canyon's untap creature ability with a creature that can untap a land, e.g. Voyaging Satyr. Once you have an untap creature and Griffin Canyon in play, you use Imagecrafter, Arcane Adaptation, Unnatural Selection, or Artificial Evolution to change the creature type of the mana dork or Canyon's ability, which will let Griffin Canyon target the creature. Every time you go through the loop, the creature gets +1/+1, so you end up with an infinitely big mana dork that you then attack for infinity with.

This can be done on turn 2 in a few ways, the most optimal of which is

Turn 1: Play Voyaging Satyr using Elvish Spirit Guide

Turn 2: Play Griffin Canyon, cast Artificial Evolution changing Griffin Canyon's ability from "target Griffin" to "target Druid", and combo off

From goldfishing, it seems like the deck wins on turn 3 a good 60% of the time.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.79
Folders	Cool decks, Good Ideas