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Welcome, to the lands combo deck that I describe as "Brago, if Brago was the Gruul love child of eggs and amulet bloom".

I've been brewing Mina since they were spoiled, and she has become my absolute favorite deck. For those that have kept up with this tapped out list since day 1, you'll notice I've changed it over time. Its gone from being heavy on landfall to being much more combo centric to as powerful as I can make. I call said combo the "Earth Bender" combo, due to the nature of manipulating Sunscorched Desert for the win. Mina is basically MtG's Toph.

Since this is a primer of sorts, there is a ton of information. I've tried to break it down into sections for easy reading.

Intro/History Show

Explaining most of the deck Show

Become the Earth Bender Show

Wrapping it up Show

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Its been a while, eh?

I stopped playing there for a bit. Never lost interest, but just had other things going on in my life. Even now that I'm returning, I still consider those other things more important so this deck will still not get updated as frequently as it used to. That said....

Zendikar Rising spoilers started coming across my reddit feed and... hol-eeee am I excited!

More lands matter stuff, more expeditions for bling potential, more combo potential.... Right now I'm hoping an updated version of Mina and Denn gets shown off thats a bit more powerful. From what I recall of the last few games I played, this deck is kind of at the point where its almost auto-pilot even without Mina and Denn on the field. I had been considering changing things up by going 3 or even 4c (hello new Omnath), but I have several issues with that which I will not go into here.

Anyway, I went back and looked at some of the sets I missed out on, and have found some fun stuff and new ideas I want to try out. Two cards in particular caught my eye.

Arboreal Grazer

I really feel like this little creature has some potential, but as far as I can tell it wouldnt be as simple as slotting it into the deck in place of some other creature. As-is, looks like I'd need to bolster it with a couple of additional lands for the combo to go infinite, and the deck is already strapped for land slots as is. Each utility land already plays a very crucial role in the deck, so fully supporting the Grazer would require shifting focus' around a bit. Same thing for the next card...

Evolution Sage

I am very much a fan of interesting landfall effects that arent just "landfall: dude gets bigger for a turn"... and the sage certainly fits that criteria. Immediate thought? Shifting the deck from an Avatar Earth Bending flavor to a "plague bearers" flavor by swapping the Sunscorched Desert out for Inkmoth Nexus. Get some sneaky poison counters out there, throw lands onto the field, win. Functionally its no different, it would still be the payoff win for infinite landfall same as the desert, but would simply be a flavor change. HOWEVER... If ALL of my infinite landfall engines were somehow removed then the Sage would still be an easier path to victory. 120 desert drops versus 30 any land drops, and it would diversify a bit. Technically, win by raw damage is already covered by Valakut. This idea could be a potent back up in case someone makes themselves immune to damage somehow or whatever.

I'm not going to be making any changes yet though, as I'm waiting to see how the rest of the spoilers play out.

In the mean time, I have accepted some suggestions I do think make sense for the deck. I havent rejected the others yet, for reasons already mentioned.

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

49 - 6 Rares

17 - 2 Uncommons

15 - 1 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.71
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elemental 5/5 RG, Elemental X/X G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Marit Lage, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G
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