Maro Multani, the Elemental of Surprise | V-DFT (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Maro Multani, the Elemental of Surprise | V-DFT

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 Combo Ferocious Forest Group Hug Mono-Green Multiplayer Shroud Theme/Gimmick Voltron

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Lands (38)

Interaction (15)

Protection (8)

We Draw (7)

Cheat (5)

Ramp (22)

Big Power (16)

Evasion (9)

Big Mana (6)

Hand Size (3)

Recursion (3)

Commander (1)

Power Matters (18)

I Draw (13)

Tutors (7)

Haste (6)

More Lands (3)

Maybeboard

Interaction (15)

Lands (8)

Big Power (3)

Evasion (3)

Recursion (3)

Cheat (2)

Hand Size (2)

Flash (1)

1x Vedalken Orrery

Tutors (13)

Big Mana (8)

Power Matters (6)

Other (3)

Slow Down (3)

More Lands (2)

Ramp (12)

I Draw (9)

We Draw (4)

Buff (3)

Protection (3)

Tokens (3)

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Origin

When I started playing Magic, it was at the time of the Urza Block. Me and my friends, naive and noobs to the game as we were, all thought green was the obvious best color (while it definitly was blue at the time): Look at all these big green creatures! Surely bigger is better! We would all run mono-green big ramp big creature decks. I still have many of the creatures I used to play at that time, like Rhox, Thorn Elemental, Weatherseed Treefolk, Beast of Burden, Carnassid and of course Multani, Maro-Sorcerer, one of my favorite MTG characters. I also remember most of us bought the "Crusher" precon from Urza's Legacy, for it contained the pinnacle of this style: Defense of the Heart (which btw is also featuring the maro-sorcerer in the artwork). I have very fond memories of that time, playing the game at high school or on the floor at a friends place.

When brewing this deck I saw more and more mono-green commander decks pop up which inspired me to consider a mono-green deck as well. I also noticed my collection of green EDH staples has been growing a bit out of proportion ^_^'. It felt like it was time to build a deck as an homage to those early days of magic for me, taking one of those nostalgic green creatures as the commander and embracing the POWER of mono-green magic.

Bigger ís better

This is a Power Matters deck and has been built taking cues from Selvala, Grothama and other Multani lists. I want to make the power of Multani as big as possible, and then turn that power into explosive value: a lot of mana (e.g. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Traverse the Outlands or Old Gnawbone), a lot of cards (e.g. Rishkar's Expertise and Grothama, All-Devouring), or a lot of damage (by attacking or with Monstrous Onslaught). To make Multani a threatening attacker, we need to give him some evasion, so cards like Akroma's Memorial and Garruk's Uprising are here to provide that.

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The fact that we are a multiplayer format makes Multani rather big without us interfering, but we can help Multani grow by letting everyone draw some cards (with cards like Howling Mine and Horn of Greed), or by slowing down opponents’ ability to empty their hands (with cards like Manglehorn). Those carddraw spells give a bit of a group hug sub-theme to the deck.

Feeling Blue

During the game we are trying to get off at least one draw spell that draws equal to the power of Multani, leading to crazy hands and turns. With all that card draw, we want to make sure we don't have to discard any, so cards like Reliquary Tower and Thought Vessel are an easy include. Cheap Land tutors, such as Sylvan Scrying are great in the situation we are drawing 20+ cards without a Reliquary Tower type of card yet in play. If we play the draw spell with some mana open and with an unused land-drop available, we should get such an effect most of the time. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is here to ensure we at least get our massive hand back from the graveyard into our library if we whiff and have to discard back to 7.

We also want to be able to empty our hands faster with all those cards in hand: cards like Azusa, Lost but Seeking help to dump our lands, and mana doublers like Extraplanar Lens or a card like Last March of the Ents help us dump our hand to the board.

How to win

This deck should end up in swift commander damage KO’s, or into an overwhelming attack of smaller creatures using some of the buff spells like Overwhelming Stampede. Psychosis Crawler offers a nice alternative wincon every now and then.

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Intended Power Level

This deck can really get out of hand and create crazy board states between turns 6 and 8, so it fits in the high category in my evaluation.

Category (Jank - Low - Mid - High - Competitive)

High

Closing Thoughts

Normally I have around 10 carddraw and 10 ramp spells, but I dialed up on both categories considerably for this deck. I just want to be growing everything all the time with this deck: growing Multani by growing our hand and then growing our ability to dump that hand onto the board. Also, I noticed that in this deck, the 6-drop slot has a lot of candidates! However, since Multani is also a 6-drop, I want to keep that slot low in numbers.

I'm also collecting non-foil full art and extended art versions of the cards in this deck. So far the tally is at:

Alters: 1
Alter Sleeve: 1
Full Art: 32
Full Art Basic Lands: 15
Extended Art: 13
Mystical Archives: 2

Total: 64/100

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Please let me know if you have tips to make this deck better! Also, feel free to upvote the deck if you enjoyed this build.

GL & HF

Beebles

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Updates Add

Eldraine Update — Sept. 22, 2019

Edit

Throne of Eldraine has brought some nice additions for this deck:

The Great Henge is overall a strong card that's right on theme. Although it does not ramp into our commander, it's basically a free Guardian Project+ afterwards that also taps for mana and gains life. Taken out Genesis Wave to make room.
Return of the Wildspeaker is another power-matters draw card that also has a second mode that can be relevant in this deck. Taking out Life's Legacy.
Castle Garenbrig is basically a second Temple of the False God in this deck with a much smaller drawback. It works just as well in getting Multani out a turn earlier.
Lastly, I was a bit late in discovering Crashing Drawbridge but that’s surely getting a spot here as well.

Cheers

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Fanatic of Rhonas 4/4 B, Treasure
Folders	Multani Maro Commander, Interesting Decks, Decks I Like, Spannende Decks
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