Craterhoof Behemoth: This is the reason that Green decks don’t have to run win conditions. ![]() As a result, this is almost going to burn your opponents way harder than it burns you. Likewise, there are some good green enchantments, but for the most part, the color gets ahead by investing in lands and creatures. Bane of Progress: Green is much less reliant on artifacts than other colors, since it has better ways of ramping itself and generating card advantage.With Avenger and any of green’s copious ramp spells, you already have all you’ll need in order to win. Avenger of Zendikar: Creates an army all on his own.Both are simple value machines, but offer other routes to winning that may give you the edge in mirror matches or a more solved meta-game. Other notable planeswalkers include Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God to mimic all your ‘walker's powers, and Vraska, Golgari Queen. This is the crux of the combo strategy for Mono-Green Nykthos, but is far from your only way to close out games. Finally, replaying the Cauldron side, you can mill your opponent for the amount of life gained by you this turn. This means with additional Kiora, Behemoth Beckoners and Karns, you can gain infinite life for you and the opponent. Since Restorative Burst exiles, and Cauldron is an artifact, you can recur the card after using it. In addition, Karn can create a loop with Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst. Just be careful not to turn off your Nykthos with Damping Sphere unless you're sure you can win without it. The sideboard is a collection of powerful and niche artifacts to disrupt your enemies. Karn, the Great Creator is an amazing toolbox to enable options against any of your matchups. The other effect of Oath is enabling perfect fixing for playing your planeswalker package. All of these threats are played as sets of 3 or 4, and can be fetched by Oath of Nissa. Topiary Stomper brings back days of Wayward Swordtooth, but with a slightly more restrictive attacking requirement. ![]() Lovestruck Beast was a Standard all-star that offers excellent value and flexibility in Pioneer. Cavalier of Thorns is the biggest constant as its effect lets you maintain consistency with lands, and it can return key pieces needed to close out games. We'll cover the creatures first as there's been a lot of love to the genre of ‘massive green statstick'. Most threats fall into one of two categories: Stompy Green Creatures or High-impact Planeswalkers. The Troll also helps to serve as a stopgap against more aggressive strategies hoping to bully out a slower start. Also aiding your mana is Old-Growth Troll, who, on death, enchants lands to give you additional green mana to activate a Nykthos or get a threat out of your hand. This ramp is supplemented with Oath of Nissa, which fetches one of your threats from the deck, and also fixes your mana for planeswalkers. The choice is really yours, as long as you're rocking the full ramp package. This mana is used to drop big threats: your Karn, the Great Creator or your Cavalier of Thorns or your Storm the Festival. Devotion is used to get more mana out of Nykthos, which generates mana relative to the devotion you have to a chosen color. ![]() Llanowar Elves will contribute one green devotion, Topiary Stomper contributes two. For those who skipped the Theros sets, devotion is simply the number of colored mana pips on permanents you control. These are classic, efficient, powerful turn one plays that also fuel our devotion. You're always going to be running four copies of both Elvish Mystic and Llanowar Elves. The name appears to be as in flux as the card list, since the game plan for the deck is pretty simple: cast small mana dorks that fuel devotion, and drop a turn two / turn three knockout for the win. However, with the surge of green haymakers over the last two years, we're seeing a new niche for the land: Mono-Green Stompy. This card has always been a favorite to those who got to sling it in Theros block constructed, and it's a stellar pick in the slower Commander format. But, the one that captivates me most is the iconic land from Theros: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. Pioneer as a non-rotating format has access to some historical pieces of power- Treasure Cruise and Siege Rhino come to mind.
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