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Dominaria - Green

Looks like elves are coming back.

Good ol’ Magic elfball. Something needs to go toe-to-toe with the Gobs.

My Top 3 picks:

Multani - Commander (I know, not included in this post, but a reviews coming soon) that just keeps kicking, with relevant Reach and Trample

Song of Freyalise - Ramp. Ramp. Win

Verdant Force - A Reprint of an EDH fave

Adventurous Impulse

Grade: D

Home: Any green deck

Range: Very Wide

Draw is always nice, but these “check the top X cards” are usually less impactful in EDH. In a format where you can Diabolic Tutor on turn 1 (much less any other tutor), this feels less useful.

Ancient Animus

Grade: C+

Home: MonoGreen

Range: Narrow

Needs an interesting requirement, and feels like Pounce for legends. Fight at instant speed is pretty decent, but if you’re outside of mono green, there’s better removal

Abhor Armament

Grade: F

Home: Counters deck?

Range: Average

Most monogreen decks aren’t in desperate need of combat tricks granting reach, and the counter is only nominally useful.

Baloth Gorger

Grade: F 

Home: Ramp, Fatties

Range: Narrow

Vanilla creatures are lame. For about the same cost, Kavu Primarch gives you more options. Bottom line, there’s better kicker creatures, better 4 drops, and better fatties.

Broken Bond

Sorry Chandra, looks like your girlfriend left.

Grade: D+

Home: Any green deck, Ramp

Range: Narrow

Another cousin of Naturalize, trading Instant speed for Ramp. Nice that it doesn’t care what type of land, so it meshes well with cards like Kodama’s Reach that put lands into your hand.

Corrosive Ooze

Wait a minute, that’s not a Magic card!

Grade: D

Home: Anti Equipment, Anti Voltron

Range: Very Narrow

A bear that destroys the equipment of creatures it blocks or is blocked by. Not particularly powerful, but I was able to make a Hearthstone joke, so I like it.

Also, destroying the Equipment at the end of combat won’t save you from being completely killed by a Trampling Voltron commander, so it’s meh.

Elfhame Druid

Grade: C

Home: Kicker, Elf Tribal, Any Green deck

Range: Wide

Kicker has a lot of use in EDH, and having GG available makes many of them more attractive. The worst case of being a mana dork for 2 isn’t that bad especially in a tribal deck.

Fungal Plots

Grade: C

Home: Saproling Tribal, sac deck

Range: Narrow

I compare it to Night Soil, one of my Fave EDH cards. Unlike Soil, it costs more, it only goes after your ‘yard, only exiles one creature, but offers some utility to saprolings, like much needed draw.

Solid option to have in Saproling deck to give you more Sap sac options.

Gaea’s Blessing

Grade: D+, Reprint

Home: Recycling Decks, weak GY Hate, Anti-Mill

Range: Narrow

Weak GY hate is ok, self replacement is nice, and milling protection is nice. Sorc speed always stinks, but this in a weird niche card.

Gaea’s Protector

Grade: F

Home: N/A

Range: N/A

Effect not interesting or powerful enough for EDH. Especially at 4 mana.

Gift of Growth

Grade: D

Home: Combat Trix, Ramp

Range: Very Narrow

An odd spell. Green doesn’t get a lot of this untapping stuff as much as White. It can untap to make a blocker, or give quasi-vigilance to an attacker. Buffing, with multiple strength levels, is interesting.

It’s expensive, but neat.

Grow from the Ashes

Grade: C 

Home: Ramp Deck, Multicolor deck

Range: Wide

Explosive Vegetation with Kicker options.

There’s plenty of ramp in the CMC 2-4 that’s pretty solid, and I think kicker gives it some consideration, especially in ramping early and late. Solid card.

EDIT: (thanks @starkmaximum) I should also mention the benefit of the lands coming in untapped. Sure they’re basic, but fixing RIGHT THEN AND THERE is great.

Kamahl’s Druidic Vow

Grade: B-

Home: Ramp, MonoGreen, Big Mana Combo

Range: Average

If you got mana and a legendary (annoying hoops to jump through), you got toys.

I can’t wait to go infinite, play my whole deck, and Elixir of Immortality everything back. Boom, Board full of legends and lands. Gonna be great in the Captain Sisay deck (if you can buy her for 30!).

Remember that Genesis Wave is kinda a strictly better version than this (sure it costs G more, but doesn’t need a Legendary and hits any permanent), so get this as a budget option, not a power options.

Krosan Druid

Grade: D

Home: LG Deck

Range: Narrow

Most LG, especially one shot lifegain, isn’t useful in EDH. Incremental or repeatable lifegain is usually the name of the game.

While 8 mana to kick a 2/3 and gain 10 life is fair, it’s just okay. At that point I’d rather play Archangel’s Light or Congregate-look alikes.

 Llanowar Elves

Grade: Reprint

Home: Every elf and green deck in existence

Range: Very Wide

The source of strength for many an elf deck, I’m mostly interesting in the sweet new art, plus awesome FNM cards.

Llanowar Envoy

Grade: C-

Home: Multicolor Infinite mana combo

Range: Very Narrow

Straight up Mana Filter when you go Green infinite mana, as well as mana fixing in multicolored decks.

Body’s decent enough but nothing to write home about

Llanowar Scout

Grade: D

Home: Ramp, Elf Tribal

Range: Average

Compare with Budoka Gardener and Sakura-Tribe Scout for similar effects, with Budoka as the most powerful. Solid ramp option, and a good reason to keep a handful of lands.

Mammoth Spider

Grade: F

Home: N/A

Range: N/A

Decent limited fodder, trash for EDH.

The Mending of Dominaria

Grade: C

Home: Land Sac deck

Range: Narrow

Plays well with Titania, Gitrog, most land heavy commanders. You can even Zuran Orb your board if you time it right, and get a ton of life.

Nature’s Spiral

Grade: D-, Reprint

Home: Any Green Deck

Range: Very Wide

Not really the best EDH card. It ends up in the first draft in a lot of my decks, but usually gets cut. Mostly because Reclaim exists.

Pierce the Sky

Grade: F

Home: N/A

Range: N/A

Bog standard anti flying. Sure, you’ll get to use it, but bring something better, like Beast Within. 

Primordial Wurm

Grade: F

Home: N/A

Range: N/A

Bog standard fatty. There’s better

Saproling Migration

Grade: C

Home: Saproling Tribal, Token decks

Range: Narrow

Solid Servo Exhibition, in green with upside. Kicker gives it some nice utility. Me gusta.

Song of Freyalise

Grade: B

Home: Ramp Deck, Fatty decks, Any Green Deck, Go Wide

Range: WIde

Ramp. Ramp. Smash.

An ult that lets you smash with no consequences is amazing. Mana fixing early game is great

Spore Swarm

Grade: C-

Home: Token Decks, Saproling Tribal

Range: Average

Useful for token decks. Captain’s Call for Saprolings. Slightly nicer while it’s at Instant speed.

Sporecrown Thallid

Grade: B+

Home: Fungus/Saproling Tribal

Range: Very Narrow

A lord at 2 CMC? Wow!

In the Fungus/Saproling deck, it’s amazing. Elsewhere, it’s usually a strictly better bear, so it’s bog awful there.

Steel Leaf Champion

Grade: C+

Home: Mono Green decks, Elf tribal

Range: Narrow

The last of the CCC cycle, a beefy elf with the Daunt power.

It’s a great reward for playing the color, much like a better Woolly Thoctar. 

Sylvan Awakening

Grade: C+

Home: Lands, Untap deck

Range: Average

Any deck with enough lands can run this well. Get an army of 8-12 lands, attack without worrying.

Untappers like Awakening give you an army of Reach Indestructible creatures on the defense. Combos well with Armageddon, if you’re the mood for destruction.

Territorial Allosaurus

Grade: C

Home: Dino Tribal

Range: Very Narrow

Only dino tribal actually wants this, and barely at that. It’s costed aggressively, and kicker is a nice option, so it’s nice removal for 7. It can usually trade without dying, but there’ll be some times when the kicker won’t help, so play after combat I guess.

Thorn Elemental

Grade: D-, Reprint

Home: Fatty Deck, Any Green Deck

Range: Very Wide

Power creep hit this elemental hard.

Bog standard hitter fatty. Does decent work as a super trampler, but there’s better options at this CMC.

Untamed Kavu

Grade: C-

Home: Any Green Deck, Ramp, Counters

Range: Very Wide

Unlike many common and uncommon Kicker cards, this one is good with and without kicker. 

A french vanilla bear is nice, and makes a good early game card, and the 5 drop with 5/5 and the same abilities is pretty solid. Plus some deck likes counters, so that’s good.

Never your first choice for any deck, but decent to fill out a curve, and good for the first or second draft of a deck. I’ll bet it’ll be in a Commander pre-con.

Verdant Force

Grade: B, Reprint

Home: Any Green Deck, Go Wide Deck, Ramp deck

Range: Wide

The original solid EDH card. This card came out over 20 years ago, and it’s still racking up kills in EDH.

One of the best scaling Fatties that can sorta take over a game (but not really in EDH, cuz no player should be over run by Saprolings)

And side note, hey it’s the first new art!

Wild Onslaught

Grade: D?

Home: Counter deck?

Range: ???

Not sure where I can really use this. Most counters are, in my opinion, are better suited to being put on one creature.

Yavimaya Shepard

Grade: D-

Home: Fungus/Saproling tribal decks, Go Wide

Range: Narrow

3 mana for 3/3 of stats is not interesting, even for Sap/Fungus decks. Leave it in the box.

So that’s the five colors! Multicolored reviews, Artifacts reviews, and more, are coming soon!