Turt Bring the Hurt - Wacky Landfall Combos

Commander / EDH Budget BUG (Sultai) Combo Infinite Combo Landfall Tap/Untap Tokens

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Lands (38)

• 1x Arid Archway
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Festering Gulch
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Foreboding Landscape
• 3x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 3x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Lush Oasis
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Restless Vinestalk
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Soured Springs
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Tap and Untap Trickery (3)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Tideforce Elemental

Card Draw and Fetch (11)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Dig Up
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gretchen Titchwillow
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Soramaro, First to Dream
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall FTW (10)

• 1x Ancient Greenwarden
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Awaken the Woods
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Zendikar's Roil

Removal, Protection, and Other Interaction (9)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Soratami Mirror-Mage
• 1x Soratami Savant
• 1x Springheart Nantuko
• 1x Voidslime

Misc. Win Cons (3)

• 1x Helix Pinnacle
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Recursion (2)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Jaspera Sentinel
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tireless Provisioner

Play Lands from Hand (5)

• 1x Llanowar Scout
• 1x Patron of the Moon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Play Additional Lands (4)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Druid Class
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

Put lands back in your hand (3)

• 1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
• 1x Trade Routes
• 1x Trench Behemoth

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Maybeboard

Who am I, Rockefeller? (23)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Tap and Untap Options (4)

• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Tiller Engine
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Invest in Activated Abilities? (2)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Training Grounds

Other (21)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cactus Preserve
• 1x Crumbling Vestige
• 1x Epic Struggle
• 1x Eternity Vessel
• 1x Ghost Town
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Liege of the Tangle
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Oboro Breezecaller
• 1x Restless Cottage
• 1x Restless Reef
• 1x Soratami Rainshaper
• 1x Upwelling
• 1x Vapor Snare
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Land Sac and Land Recursion (9)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Zuran Orb

Ramp and More Lands (14)

• 1x Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Moonsnare Prototype
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Scaled Herbalist
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Landfall Use and Abuse (11)

• 1x Architect of the Untamed
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Caustic Crawler
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jaddi Offshoot
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Roil Cartographer
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Scrib Nibblers
• 1x Sporemound

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The Game Plan

Still a bit work in progress, but most of the good details are here. Archelos, Lagoon Mystic is effectively an Amulet of Vigor as a commander, and Amulet of Vigor is renown for its shenanigans. This deck aims to do as many of those as possible. Looking at funny interactions and elaborate combos to goof out a victory - creating avenues to loop landfall or something related for the win. There is definitely another angle which could be taken with the beautiful turtle boi, leaning more into the graveyard side with sacrificing lands, bringing them back, etc. which is great. However, it's more costly irl and also vulnerable to graveyard hate, so I'm keeping things on the battlefield if I can help it (with just a splash of recursion still baked in).

Bread and butter interaction is probably in dropping a bounce land with Archy out, ideally paired with additional land drops per turn. Something like Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Simic Growth Chamber. Archelos untapped in this scenario can let you drop the bounce land, then tap it for 2 mana before putting that same land back in your hand - hopefully several times per turn. This allows for not only surprisingly strong mana generation, but also leads to tempo swings with even moderately-powered landfall triggers (life gain, card draw, etc.). The bounce land interaction is very strong, and should always be sought after when playing this deck.

Similarly, a strong land interaction you'll run into is the fetch lands and lands-from-graveyard effects, also ideally with extra lands per turn. Using a combo such as Evolving Wilds + Conduit of Worlds + Courser of Kruphix, you can very quickly dig up your lands for insane ramp - not to mention double land ETB per fetch.

Specific Shenanigans Show

The best part of this deck is the good number of shenanigans that can be pulled from the various land ETB and bounce effects. While there are lots of interchangeable parts, here are some fun ones to be on the lookout for:

• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Sakura-Tribe Scout + Retreat to Coralhelm + bounce land is the textbook way to get infinite mana, as well as infinite landfall. Look for this, and the many variants of it, as soon as possible. Use a landfall abuser for the win. The essential ingredients for this are Archy, a tap for land-from-hand creature, a repeatable untap source, and a way to put the lands back in your hand (bounce lands are easiest, but other cards like Trench Behemoth also work).
• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Patron of the Moon + Simic Growth Chamber is the infinite mana/landfall combo requiring the fewest cards. If your mana gain is sufficient, hunt for the Patron to whip out a quick combo. Any landfall or x-cost win con will end the game from there. Quickest I've legitimately gotten to this win state was turn 5, starting with a near-perfect hand and excellent draw.
• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Springleaf Drum is a classic combo for putting your opponents behind while you stay ahead. Save the Springleaf tap for the very last thing you do on a turn, tap Archy to piss off all the people who were willing to tolerate your company that evening. If you're nicer than I am, you can leave cards like this out for a more "group hug" feel and let your opponents get the untap advantage as well.
• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Seer's Sundial + Simic Growth Chamber lets you get some easy card draw. If you can repeatedly drop the land, get even more draw.
• Abundance + Sakura-Tribe Scout + land + Retreat to Coralhelm + Tatyova, Benthic Druid lets you put every land in your deck onto the battlefield. Not only hilarious, but landfall triggers are guaranteed to be yuge.
• Sakura-Tribe Scout + Lush Oasis + Retreat to Coralhelm + Trench Behemoth lets you repeat the 1 damage land drop for infinite damage, no other landfall needed.
• Getting lands back into your hand is often as important as being able to put them back down, like when you haven't gotten to a bounce land or if you had to play one early for the sake of the curve. Cards like Trade Routes and Meloku the Clouded Mirror can refuel the landfall engines.
• The new card Springheart Nantuko is going to be a beast in this deck, with a couple of ways to abuse its bestow/copy ability. My personal favorite is to pair it with a land-per-turn creature like Oracle of Mul Daya. With Springheart bestowed onto Oracle, and Archy out, drop a bounce land with green (entering untapped) and immediately tap it for two to pay for Springheart's landfall trigger, copying Azusa which enables you to bounce the land back to your hand and drop it again to repeat... this results in infinite copies of the creature and infinite landfall triggers and essentially infinite mana after that turn. Win out in your preferred way from there.
• If you don't have a land-per-turn creature available, Springheart Nantuko will also be exceptionally rude when copying your landfall creatures, my personal favorite being Ruin Crab due to its potential to wreak havoc early in the game. Definitely going to draw lots of removal attention, so be prepared with your protection pieces.
• There's another Springheart Nantuko interaction which is fairly niche due to needing Lotus Cobra or Tireless Provisioner, but I'll probably include it just for the laughs... Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Springheart Nantuko + Treetop Village + Lotus Cobra. Here's how it works: Turn one of your lands that can become a creature into the creature, and bestow Springheart onto that land creature (this only works all in one turn). Drop a land to trigger the copy ability and pay the 2 to copy the land creature. When the copy enters, it will actually just enter as that original land, untapped thanks to Archy and with an extra mana thanks to Lotus Cobra. This triggers Springheart's landfall ability again, and you use the mana from that land plus the Cobra floater to copy the land. Repeat for infinite lands/landfall - use a billion of the land you made to turn another billion lands into creatures and swing for the win next turn.

I'm trying to keep this at a reasonable budget level for irl, but I have listed the more expensive (probably more effective) options in their own section of the maybeboard. If budget isn't a concern, feel free to go nuts with those powerful effects.

Date added	6 months
Last updated	4 months
Key combos	Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Seer's Sundial + Simic Growth Chamber
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 2/2 G, Food, Forest Dryad 1/1 G, Illusion 1/1 U w/ Flying, Insect 1/1 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed