Horde of Notions: Nature Kicks You In The Face (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Horde of Notions: Nature Kicks You In The Face

Commander / EDH Creature Cheat Elementals Evoke Kaheera, the Orphanguard Reanimator Theme/Gimmick Toolbox

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Land (37)

Planeswalker (1)

1x Domri Rade

Creature (35)

Enchantment (5)

Commander (1)

Companion (1)

Artifact (7)

Instant (7)

Sorcery (7)

Sideboard

Creature (28)

Land (15)

Artifact (8)

Planeswalker (2)

Sorcery (12)

Instant (9)

Enchantment (7)

Maybeboard

Creature (7)

Land (1)

1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (4)

Sorcery (2)

Artifact (1)

1x The Great Henge

Instant (4)

Planeswalker (1)

1x Wrenn and Six

This is my most competitive deck while still maintaining a gimmick.

Is Elemental my favorite creature type? Maybe. Did I get jealous of other colors having all the cool Elementals after playing Mono-red Ashling? Yes.

Five colors? Am I insane? Most definitely.

Sideboard is cut cards. Maybeboard is maybeboard.

Some cards that I've rotated out of this deck and my reasoning:

Undergrowth Champion: idk he can get big if played early, but loses counters when he gets chumped. Also he's vanilla. not much impact on the battlefield.
Roil Elemental: dies to the wind, but can be good if paired with a sac outlet, I suppose. You want to play it on turn 6 so you can play a land after. Might actually try it again, but 3 blue can be hard to cast without relic or world tree.
Silvos, Rogue Elemental: idk he's good actually. 3 green is doable in this deck, and regeneration is nice to swing with no fear. Guess I was moving away from competitive into jank/combo
Counterflux: This deck doesn't want to hold 3 up for countering, as much as I like this card
Woodland Wanderer: vigilance and trample on a 6/6 is decent, but other than that he's not very disruptive. Also when he comes back from the yard he doesn't get counters.
Crime // Punishment: Very spicy, but there are plenty of effects that do punishment and I find Praetor's Grasp more fun than Crime
Spawnwrithe: You will never duplicate spawnwrithe.
Wispmare, Ingot Chewer: supplanted by Foundation Breaker.
Mirror Entity: meh. not flavorful.
Whisperwood Elemental: I do like the sac ability, and it makes a 2/2 every turn, but I found it mostly just blanked what I wanted in my hand.
Void Stalker: There's plenty of other removal that exiles in here, and you can't get stalker back with Horde.
Wrath of God: Replaced by Damn.
Bloom Tender: As really, really nice as Bloom Tender is and as explosive as games can be with her, she's not an elemental. This is kind of a 75% deck, with one of the restrictions being all elementals and the other being lots of taplands.

While I'm at it, in general, the house rules of the groups I usually play in include not playing Cyclonic Rift, and I don't usually pay tax cards (Rhystic, etc) since they're annoying.

Bring to Light: This card is really cool, but it just kind of overstayed its welcome for me. I dunno, it might go back in.
Sunforger: Again, like the card, but it overstayed its welcome and this deck now has enough removal in the form of creatures that I don't feel the need to play a slow card like Sunforger. It really belongs in an equipment deck.
Door of Destinies: Idk, Door never felt conducive to the game I needed to play. I never had time to cast it. Maybe if it cost 3?
Obsidian Fireheart: Love the card, but never made that much of an impact
Fertilid: Sloooooooow
Flickerwisp: I like Venser a bit more, because without another creature on board, Flickerwisp doesn't do much.

I guess Vivien's Arkbow is my flex/fun slot

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REBIRTH — Aug. 17, 2024

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This update focuses the deck on ETB/evoke and adds flicker enablers. The deck is moving away from dropping a fun elemental or two a turn to one that's more reactive and toolbox-y, slightly quicker to ramp, and can use sac outlets and Jegantha/Lotus to trigger an elemental 2-3 times in a turn.

This deck wins by toolboxing out elementals to take care of threats, and then beating down with Horde and whatever elementals are still laying around.

I explicitly am not including any infinite combos/infinite mana in this deck, as they're not really fun imo.

Important to note that adventures can be cast from the GY with Horde.

OUT:

Elemental lands: I never use em and they slow me down. Changed to Surveil lands.
Avenger of Zendikar, Big Omnath: I think the lands matter version of Horde wants these. But not this version. Also, they're really, really expensive.
Coalition Relic
Crackling Doom
Damn
Demonic Tutor: I think the one I have is fake.
Evolutionary Leap: Out for Greater Good.
Flamekin Herald: Just not where I want to be. Doesn't do anything on ETB.
Greenwarden of Murasa: 6 mana for a vanilla do-nothing? No thanks
Illuna: Oops can't mutate with horde
Lifecrafter's Bestiary: Out for Tribute to the World Tree
Lightning Skelemental: Fun elemental I put in cuz fun, but there are better options
Living Lightning: Hard cut, but it just seems like I don't have enough instants and sorceries
Other Omnath: Not a landfall deck.
Parcelbeast: Too slow, this deck wants Risen Reef and Risen Reef only
Phy Arena: Focusing on ETB effects, evoke and sac to draw
Praetor's Grasp: My fun-of for years, gone
Primal Beyond: Secluded Courtyard is strictly better
Roil Elemental: Not a landfall deck. Also, 3UUU? hell nah
Skullclamp: Hard cut, could be good.
Song of Creation: Fun but prolly not what this deck wants
Steely Resolve: Need to flicker, so this is out
Sultai Charm: Idk, wasn't vibing
Thornling: Doesn't etb and you have to keep mana up. Not what this deck wants to do.
Thryx, the Sudden Storm: Not a lot of hits for this ability
Torrent Elemental: Feels very meh, but I'm sure I just never got to see this card's full potential.
Utter End: PL reduction
Venser, the Sojourner: Into Teleportation Circle
Vivien's Arkbow: We have better ways to discard

IN:

Arcane Signet: Curve reduction.
Beza, the Bounding Spring: Testing, but a lower cost Elemental with some good ETBs.
Bramble Familiar: A dork + discard outlet + late-game panic button? It's everything this deck wants!
Cavalier of Dawn, Night: Feels clunkkyyyyyy due to WWW and BBB costs, but very very good ETBs and Dawn can return artifacts and enchantments, which has done well in playtesting if Lotus gets targeted.
Commercial District: See above
Endurance: For the complete set, not that I'd use it on myself. Mostly for GY hate but a flash blocker for cheap is cool too
Ephemerate: Feelsbadman playing a 1-mana spell in commander but it's good
Expedition Map: I really feel like I need a ton of ramp/consistency in this deck.
Fact or Fiction: Card draw and GY fuel
Flickerwisp: Moving to a flicker focus.
Greater Good: This card is bonkers with Horde. Sac and then revive to churn through the deck
[unsure] Life / Death: Kinda flex slot, Might turn this into something else, like Journey to Eternity
Maha, Its Feathers Night: Combos with Night Incarnate for a board wipe. Insanely efficient attacker. Sticky. Very strong
Malakir Rebirth: Look mom, I'm playing scam!
Nevermaker: Deads an opponent's draw and temporarily removes an indestructible threat. Good tempo.
Nova Chaser: Triggers leaves and enters (not dies tho).
Nulldrifter: Why yes mark rosewater I did want a second copy of mulldrifter in my deck (sucks that it's on cast and not etb tho)
Phyrexian Reclamation: An absolute HOUSE in this deck man, getting an evoke creature back from the GY makes this deck such a good toolbox. Destroy anything that's giving you problems.
Rumbleweed: A little silly, and maybe not good, but on-type Craterhoof is cool and you can build your own OTK with Maelstrom Wanderer
Spitebellows: A strict downgrade to reduce power level but promote synergy. Don't @ me
Smuggler's Surprise: I want to cut this card but I can't, it does it all. Pseudo heroic intervention, creature draw, and creature cheat, it's busted
[unsure] Sword of Hearth and Home: I still have 5 basics so this fixes and flickers. Very close to cutting em all though so this is next on the chopping block.
Teleportation Circle: One less than the 5 mana artifact solution, and it only targets creatures which is fine
Tempest Hart: Early game card filtering plus an emergency beater? Sure man
Three Visits: See arcane signet
Timeless Lotus: How could I not?
Titan of Industry: Great beater, reanimation target, protects itself or Horde, great all around. Pretty spendy though so it prefers the GY.
Tribute to the World Tree: Compromise between Guardian Project and Up the Beanstalk. I HATE enchantments that are more than 3,4 mana. They feel so clunky. Can't explain it
Urza's Incubator: Lots of colorless costs to reduce in this deck.

big changes — June 27, 2021

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Cool lookin Elementals — Aug. 8, 2020

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Rebuilding and Moving On — May 24, 2019

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Big Changes — Oct. 29, 2016

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Date added	10 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 15 Mythic Rares 49 - 46 Rares 15 - 15 Uncommons 9 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 5/5 RG, Elemental / G, Elemental / GW, Emblem Domri Rade, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Fish 1/1 U, Golem 3/3 C, Manifest 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Plant 0/1 G, Rhino Warrior 4/4 G, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Elemental Ideas, ! Current EDH Decks, edh
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