The Rooted Sisterhood

Commander / EDH* MythicLegend

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XavierTesticle says... #1

Needs more non-basic lands such as Gavony Township , Or Sunpetal Grove

January 18, 2014 4:10 a.m.

echo9999 says... #2

I absolutely love the fact that SOMEONE out there has Trostani, Selesnya's Voice featured in a selesnya deck rather than the incredibly over-rated Voice of Resurgence . I do not understand why you have Maze Behemoth in your deck because you only have 6 multicolored creatures. The way I pulled this off was I put Nylea, God of the Hunt . This is much more effective as you can get it out on turn four and give everything trample. I would add in a Growing Ranks to populate those Voice of Resurgence tokens quicker as well as gain life faster. I would take out Chromatic Lantern and Gyre Sage . Gyre Sage is really only good in a mono green deck because it adds green mana. Chromatic Lantern is best played in either a conflux or a three colored deck, so you have no need for it. I would substitute Fog for a Druid's Deliverance or a Safe Passage . this is becuase with Druid's Deliverance you may populate, and with Safe Passage you may gang-block with all of your valuable tokens and destroy the other creatures without harming yours. I would also add in a Parallel Lives to make that token production much much quicker. Hope all of this helps!

January 18, 2014 11:35 a.m.

WaveAmbassador says... #3

January 29, 2014 6:30 p.m.

ShiftyOdyssey says... #4

Needs more Storm Crow

January 29, 2014 6:36 p.m.

ShiftyOdyssey says... #5

Garruk's Packleader for some card drawing action. Cultivate good rampy. Storm Herd You get lots of life. Phyrexian Processor lots of life, big guys, and you can populate them. Beast Within is pretty great removal.

January 29, 2014 6:40 p.m.

NateJH says... #6

How about Doubling Season and maybe Growing Ranks ?

January 30, 2014 5:21 p.m.

jpgcoleman says... #7

January 30, 2014 5:31 p.m.

Kelm says... #8

This could come of use, Felidar Sovereign

February 21, 2014 11:13 p.m.

cian114 says... #9

You need more efficient cards, some of the cards you're running are easily removed and there's not a lot of synergy in deck, you can't always rely on a planeswalker ultimate to win games.

Check out my deck In Trostani We Trust, centered around tokens with a bit of lifegain.

April 17, 2014 1:46 a.m.

ShiftyOdyssey says... #10

April 17, 2014 5:33 p.m.

ShiftyOdyssey says... #11

April 20, 2014 9:44 p.m.

cian114 says... #12

Hello,

De ja vu for a second there, but then I saw yours is geared more towards lifegain. +1!

April 24, 2014 1:40 a.m.

NateJH says... #13

April 27, 2014 3:55 p.m.

Sach_squatch says... #14

Maybe consider adding Serra Ascendant ? It's a 6/6 on turn 1 its worth it in life gain as well because usually your above 30 life.

April 28, 2014 8:45 p.m.

Because of the amount of token makers you run, I think a good add could be Rhys the Redeemed as he can keep doubling your tokens and gain even more life from Trostani. I feel like they have great synergy together.

May 15, 2014 1:51 p.m.

MythicLegend says... #16

@CouponCollector I forgot to add him to the list. I recently ordered him actually. I appreciate the comment though.

May 15, 2014 5:13 p.m.

cian114 says... #17

Have you considered Beastmaster Ascension ? It's a cheaper Collective Blessing but it adds +5/+5 instead. With a lot of tokens out, 7 counters is pretty easy to accrue.

May 15, 2014 5:46 p.m.

cian114 says... #18

Also, when tagging a user, format it like you would a card, so that the other person gets notified when you reply to their comment.

May 15, 2014 5:50 p.m.

Look into Channel Omnath, Locus of Mana and Chorus of the Conclave for those sick late game combos bro

June 1, 2014 1:38 a.m.

cian114 says... #20

PresidentPeaches Channel is banned in EDH

June 2, 2014 6:30 p.m.

MelonGator says... #21

November 19, 2014 10:08 a.m.

Love this. I've been trying to sketch out a Trostani EDH deck of my own.

November 23, 2014 9:54 a.m.
December 4, 2014 9:07 p.m.

Dianemis says... #24

Have you looked at pathbreaker ibex? It is similar to Craterhoof, except it works off of your Creatures high power. It can also use it's effect once each combat!

November 19, 2019 11:43 p.m.

So I really like this deck and it seems like it is fairly resilient. A few things I would consider adding would be more cards that synergize with your life gain strategy and Trostani’s populate ability such as:

  • Angelic Accord More tokens for gaining life in a deck that wants to make tokens and gain life seems like a win to me.

  • Well of Lost Dreams Fantastic way to turn that additional life gain into card advantage.

  • Ajani's Pridemate I saw you already included Ageless Entity which this card functions very close to it so might be worth running both.

  • Congregate This is a nice card that works extremely well in Commander if you need a quick boost in life. Note Congregate reads target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield. Many times, when I would use this card in a commander game I would easily gain 20 plus life off it.

  • Serra Avatar One way to read this card is play Serra Avatar with Trostani, Selesnya's Voice in play and double your life total. Even if you don’t have Trostani out you are still getting in most cases a creature that is well over a 7/7 most games for 7 mana which is a good deal.

  • Aetherflux Reservoir Can function as a secondary WinCon that you can pull out of nowhere. Trust me, play this card when you have an excess life total then instantly activate it taking the player that is the biggest threat out of the game. Also, don’t write off the first ability on the card. You would be surprised how quickly you gain life by just playing spells.

  • Growing Ranks A free populate at the beginning of each of your turns can be extremely strong in this deck.

  • Rootborn Defenses , Sundering Growth Both cards are similar to cards you are already running they just also include populate to further increase your board.

  • Advent of the Wurm 4 mana for a 5/5 trample is straight value plus this will work really well with populate.

  • Armada Wurm 6 mana for a 5/5 trample that also creates a 5/5 trample wurm token. 10 power for 6 mana plus gaining a token works with populate.

  • Glare of Subdual In a deck that wants to go wide this can quickly shut down opponents from attacking you.

  • Blade of Selves and Herald of the Host Both of these cards work extremely well with Trostani, Selesnya's Voice . How they work is you attack with either Herald of the Host or the creature Blade of Selves is equipped to and let the myriad ability activate creating a copy of the creature that is attacking your other opponents. Normally the tokens created off the myriad ability would be exiled at the end of combat but, if you use Trostani, Selesnya's Voice ’s populate ability during your combat phase you can create an additional copy of the token that will stay in play after the combat phase is over because, it was created using the populate mechanic and not the myriad mechanic. Even if you don’t populate the tokens that were created Trostani, Selesnya's Voice ’s life gain ability will still trigger off the tokens gaining you a lot of additional life. The myriad ability also works extremely well with creatures that have enter the battlefield abilities. Imagine this line of play, you equip Blade of Selves to your Terastodon then attack. The myriad ability triggers and you put two additional token copies of Terastodon into play attacking your other opponents. When those Terastodon tokens enter the battlefield they trigger their enter the battlefield ability allowing you to remove up to six other noncreature permanents (three from each of the Terastodon’s that came into play). Also imagine Blade of Selves attached to Serra Avatar you would be tripling your life total each time you attack as long as Trostani is out.

A few cards I would personally consider removing Thrun, the Last Troll , Primal Surge , Godsend , Strionic Resonator , Woodfall Primus , Rout (maybe consider replacing Rout for Martial Coup which seems more on theme for a token deck) Felidar Sovereign , (I get why you added him but winning with Felidar in commander seems like a cheap way to win.)

A lot of these cards really don’t seem on theme for either gaining more life or creating tokens. Personally, I would look at replacing a lot of these creatures with creatures that make tokens when they come into play like Armada Wurm that you can use to populate or cards that synergize with your life gain like Ajani's Pridemate .

One last thing your combo of Darien, King of Kjeldor + Trostani, Selesnya's Voice does not work exactly as you think. For Darien to trigger the damage has to resolve meaning that if a player deals more damage than your life total at once then you would die before Darien could trigger. As long as you have at least one life after damage resolves and both Darien and Trostani are on the field then your combo works, you create the solider token from Darien and, Trostani gives you the life from the token coming into play.

December 12, 2019 1:32 p.m.

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