Overview:
Wake up, it's time to grow to unbelievable proportions and plow through your opponent's defenses.
Green decks utilize creatures with overwhelming power and mana-ramp. In order to accomplish both in a budget deck, we're focusing on adding a ton of counters and synergizing around that concept. Once we have big enough creatures, we start forcing our opponents to fight us with cards like Inscription of Abundance, Prey Upon, Ram Through, and Titanic Brawl. These allow you to destroy your opponent's creatures outside of combat phases so you will have an easier time swinging for real damage. The ooze cards all synergize well with each other and every time you put a counter on one of them, you get to add one to Wildwood Scourge as well. Garruk's Uprising gives all of our creatures trample and allows us to have extra card draw, which in a slower deck is crucial. Trample combos perfectly with Ram Through so you can kill your enemy creatures and still get some chip damage in as well. Karametra's Acolyte and Frontier Siege are going to be our mana ramp in this deck. Both are a 4 drop which isn't great, but they allow us to get a ton of "free mana" each turn, and in Siege's case, every main phase.
Similar to Hi, It's Knight to Yeet You this is a slower deck since you need time for your creatures to get big and mana to force fights. However I personally think it's faster than the White deck since counters are easy to slowly build and having your "Voltron" style knights exiled can be debilitating whereas losing a high counter creature just hurts a little. But once again, this is not a "quick-win" deck.
Side Board:
Our Planeswalker this time is Vivien, Arkbow Ranger because she allows us to get trample going for two creatures if Nylea or Garruk's Uprising aren't around for whatever reason, and gives them extra counters too. Also if you're like me and like to play with Hydras, her ultimate lets you pull whatever you want from outside of your deck and put it into your hand, in which case my Hydra of choice would be Kalonian Hydra, but really bring in whatever you like, I just ask that you use something that will help you synergize. As always, the deck is designed to work without the Planeswalker just fine, so feel free to skip it.
Maybe Board:
In the maybe-board we have Gyre Sage as the alternative to Karametra's Acolyte. She not only benefits from counters but is able to use them as mana-fuel and is a 2 drop. The reason she's in the maybe-board then is because her primary ability requires her to be on the field before the other creatures get out there (which is not a guarantee) and for them to be stronger than her when they enter (which is not great odds since they all start around 2 power or so). It's possible to just add counters to her and still tap for more mana, but that's counters that could be going to your fighters. I leave the decision up to you, she's still a great card. The class cards from the D&D set are generally very good and the Ranger Class is one of the best. Extra counters when you attack and the ability to peak at your deck whenever you want is just good strategy. Last but not least is Hardened Scales which is probably the best card there is for a counter-based deck. If you can afford it, get it for this deck. Lastly, Nylea, God of the Hunt was in the mainboard, but I decided to swap her to the maybe. She's very good, but it's also a little overkill. While she is a more expensive card, she allows the rest of our creatures to gain Trample which is hard to pass up, but Garruk's Uprising can already accomplish that.
As always, recommendations are welcome, and thanks for checking out the deck!
Mono-Colored Budget Deck Series:
- Come On Baby Light My Fire
- A Modern Mono Mill of Maddening Magnitude
- Hi, It's Knight to Yeet You
- That Time You Got Reincarnated as an Ooze
- Getting Down with the Sickness
