Hamza, Planning and Theory

Commander / EDH* Affinity Aggro Counters GW (Selesnya)

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Token Dorks (31)

• 1x Aquastrand Spider
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Clockwork Beetle
• 1x Endless One
• 1x Experiment One
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Ivy Elemental
• 1x Luminarch Aspirant
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Oran-Rief Ooze
• 1x Phantom Nomad
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Pridemalkin
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Servant of the Scale
• 1x Simic Initiate
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Swarm Shambler
• 1x Ugin's Conjurant
• 1x Vastwood Hydra
• 1x Voracious Hydra
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wildwood Scourge

Evasion (13)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Elite Scaleguard
• 1x Gnarlid Colony
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Subjugator Angel
• 1x Taunting Arbormage
• 1x Treeshaker Chimera
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Victory's Herald
• 1x Vulpikeet

Fort (8)

• 1x Angelic Arbiter
• 1x Archon of Coronation
• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Dawnglade Regent
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Elderscale Wurm
• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Palisade Giant

Land (3)

• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

Flash (2)

• 1x Vernal Equinox
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

Hah (1)

• 1x Panglacial Wurm

Big Beaters (24)

• 1x Aetherwind Basker
• 1x Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Bala Ged
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Decimator of the Provinces
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Giant Adephage
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Spawnsire of Ulamog
• 1x Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Verdeloth the Ancient
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Worldspine Wurm

Card Advantage (14)

• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Etched Oracle
• 1x Garruk's Horde
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Defense (11)

• 1x Angelic Guardian
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Sephara, Sky's Blade
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Vagrant Plowbeasts
• 1x Vigor

Mana Dorks (4)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves

Recursion (3)

• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Paleoloth
• 1x Yomiji, Who Bars the Way

Commander (1)

Pump (16)

• 1x Basri Ket
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Chorus of the Conclave
• 1x Emiel the Blessed
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Kamahl, Heart of Krosa
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Oath of Ajani
• 1x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1x Renegade Krasis
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Unbreakable Formation
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Removal (14)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Angel of the Dire Hour
• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Highcliff Felidar
• 1x Luminate Primordial
• 1x Mockery of Nature
• 1x Myojin of Cleansing Fire
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Stax (11)

• 1x Archon of Valor's Reach
• 1x Chancellor of the Annex
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Glowrider
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Vryn Wingmare

Synergy (4)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Durable Handicraft
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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Other (87)

• 1x Abzan Battle Priest
• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Aegis Angel
• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Angel of Renewal
• 1x Angelic Skirmisher
• 1x Apex Devastator
• 1x Bellowing Aegisaur
• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Bruna, the Fading Light  ^Meld
• 1x Conclave Mentor
• 1x Cragplate Baloth
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Earthshaker Giant
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Enduring Scalelord
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Evra, Halcyon Witness
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Foe-Razer Regent
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 1x Gladehart Cavalry
• 1x Glowstone Recluse
• 1x Goldnight Redeemer
• 1x Grunn, the Lonely King
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Ivory Giant
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Kalonian Twingrove
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Kavu Primarch
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Liege of the Tangle
• 1x Living Hive
• 1x Llanowar Elite
• 1x Loxodon Lifechanter
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Myojin of Life's Web
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myriad Construct
• 1x Naya Soulbeast
• 1x Oak Street Innkeeper
• 1x Oathsworn Giant
• 1x Odric, Master Tactician
• 1x Patron of the Kitsune
• 1x Patron of the Orochi
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Primeval Protector
• 1x Pristine Angel
• 1x Radiant, Serra Archangel
• 1x Rampaging Brontodon
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Resolute Archangel
• 1x Sakiko, Mother of Summer
• 1x Serra's Guardian
• 1x Siege Behemoth
• 1x Silverwing Squadron
• 1x Slurrk, All-Ingesting
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Soul of Theros
• 1x Stumpsquall Hydra
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Triskelavus
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Untamed Kavu
• 1x Venerated Loxodon
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar
• 1x Whiptongue Hydra
• 1x Windbrisk Raptor
• 1x Workhorse
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

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Who likes free/cheap cards? Elephants, that's who!

Base idea is spiraling out of control quickly into a beat down deck, play big things, murder people in the face. X Cost critters are equivalent to mana dorks for this elephant. In fact, after you resolve them, they're more like Helm of Awakening's for yourself!

My ideal version of this deck is going to be enough X cost or CMC 3 or less dudes that come with counters to reliably drop our commander turn 3-4. After that, assemble a draw engine, dump your hand, go to town.

Ideas I'm still considering: * Backup recursion combo wins (Yomiji or another recursion critter, cost reduction, and a sac outlet to re-cast Eldrazi or other good ETB's over and over) * Hasty shenanigans (Akroma's Memorial or Crashing Drawbridge) * Flash shenanigans (Yeva and Vernal Equinox and Vedalkin Orrery)

Anything else you guys come up with!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	36 - 0 Mythic Rares 77 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	160
Avg. CMC	4.91
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Basri Ket, Energy Reserve, Insect 1/1 G, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Snake 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, The Monarch, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample, Zombie Warrior 4/4 B