I began content creation in August 2019 with a crummy laptop that would immediately die when the charger was unplugged. Never in a million years did I think that I would get a preview card from Wizards of the Coast.
Let's talk about Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty. This uncommon Naga Druid brings cascade back to the table for Commander players. No longer are we limited to Maelstrom Wanderer and Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder. Both of these legendaries have access to other colors full of Cascade spells, however, neither of them let you cascade as often or reliably as Imoti. Free spells, especially free big spells, are inherently broken in Magic, making Imoti incredibly powerful.
Ramp is important in any deck, however this is doubly true in our Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty build. Brewing around spells with converted mana cost 6 or more means that our curve is going to be incredibly high. This may seem intimidating at first—it's insanely intimidating to me if I'm being honest—but filling our deck with both high and low-cost ramp spells will see us through.
We have three ways to ramp in this deck: Getting extra lands, playing extra lands, and doubling our mana.
Tutoring for lands is the most common way for us to start our ramp journey. Cards like Cultivate and Kodama's Reach are staples in any deck that runs green and definitely have a home here. However, we need more than the norm for us to get those big spells out onto the battlefield.The newly printed Three Visits (the Faerie art is to die for), Nature's Lore, and Wood Elves are great spells that allow us to not only tutor for basic Forests but also Tropical Island or Breeding Pool, making them incredibly strong assets to building our mana base.
Our last land tutor spell happens to be my other preview card for Commander Legends: Reshape the Earth.
This spell has made waves in the community. Sitting at nine mana, this spell not only triggers Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty cascade ability but allows you to tutor for 10 lands and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Let me say that again. You search your deck for any land, and put it immediately into play. Ten times. This is huge!
This allows us to fix any way we want to and can snag us some of our scarier lands. Paired with Field of the Dead, this can not only cascade into something amazing but fill up our board with real estate and Zombie tokens.
Our next ramp strategy involves playing additional lands on our turns. The recently reprinted Exploration and Oracle of Mul Daya allow us to play an extra land on our turns. Plus, Oracle allows us to play with the top card of our library revealed. This is incredibly fun, as it allows us to attempt to sculpt our cascade triggers. Instead of playing the land in our hand, we play the one on top of our library and get a sneak peek at what's to come. This can also be an incredibly fun way to psych our opponents out.
Our final, and probably our most powerful form of additional land ramp is Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. While this Dryad loves to let us play an additional land, there is one thing he loves to do even more: make our lands every basic land type. It's always funny to tap a Forest for black mana in a game of Commander, especially when you don't need it. While this secondary ability seems to shine more in three or four-color decks, it can still be incredibly helpful when we just aren't drawing that one land we need.
Our final form of ramp is the most gluttonous: mana doubling. Green is to mana doubling as red is to damage doubling. We are in the perfect colors to maximize our mana pool for casting many big mana spells when we'd normally be worried about casting only one.
To start us out we have one of Green's most discussed mana doublers: Nyxbloom Ancient. Rather than double the mana a permanent produces, it allows us to triple it. It also has a converted mana cost of 7, making it perfect for Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty cascade trigger as well.
Our next form of mana doubling is Zendikar Resurgent. This enchantment is a double threat, allowing us to double our mana and draw a card whenever we cast a creature spell. Card draw is incredibly important for the health of a deck, and since we are in Simic, we definitely are not lacking in this department. The fact that this enchantment kills two birds with one stone makes it incredibly valuable to cascade into.
Our final mana doubler is one of Green's most infamous creatures: Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. This card inspires major salt by not only ramping us, but stalling our opponents. Vorinclex makes players second guess if they really need to cast that spell burning a hole in their hand. Is the risk worth the reward? Sitting at eight mana, this feels like it was made for Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty— just think how hysterical it would be to play Vorinclex and cascade into Nyxbloom Ancient!
So we have the big mana, but what are we going to do with it? When working on this build, I wanted to be a bit more creature-focused rather than spell-focused. Instants and sorceries are fun to cascade into, but I was worried about hitting the wrong one at the wrong time. This brew currently runs a total of 30 creatures (excluding our commander), making the likelihood of hitting a terrifying behemoth very high. While I love all 30 creatures, I want to highlight some of the beaters in this deck that allow us to do more than just hit.
Our first two creatures happen to be from the same cycle of cards: the Archetypes.
Playing and cascading into spells that not only do stuff for us but impact our opponents are of the highest value. These two Archetypes are perfect because they do exactly that while hitting Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty converted mana cost threshold. Denying our opponents flying and hexproof while giving us both of these keywords strengthens our board presence and makes us all the more terrifying.
Our next big mana baddie is one of my favorite green cards ever printed: Avenger of Zendikar.
This seven-mana Elemental is a monster in this deck because of the magnitude of its token generation. One of my goals when playing this deck in paper in the future is to cast Reshape the Earth and cascade into Avenger of Zendikar while Field of the Dead is out. Tokens for days!
Our final, and probably most impactful creature in this deck is the new Apex Devastator. This is the great play of the deck, the "alright y'all, game two?" play. When paired with Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty the four cascade triggers grow to five! Because this spell sits at 10 mana, we are able to cascade into almost anything in our deck. Also… it's a flippin' 10/10! How cool is that?!
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Value Overfloweth by Chase Carroll
'Value Overfloweth' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Chase Carroll
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Commander
Market Price: $1533.14
Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
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Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
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Breeding Pool
Color Identity:G,U
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({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
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Heroic Intervention
Color Identity:G
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Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
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Nature's Lore
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Zendikar Resurgent
Color Identity:G
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Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.) Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
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Dig Through Time
Color Identity:U
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Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/236207/magic-commander-2021-dig-through-time
Three Visits
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Rogue's Passage
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{T}: Add {C}.
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Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
Color Identity:G
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Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Simic Growth Chamber
Color Identity:G,U
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Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Temple of Mystery
Color Identity:G,U
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Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
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Misty Rainforest
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/238609/magic-modern-horizons-2-misty-rainforest
Cyclonic Rift
Color Identity:U
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Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
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Emrakul, the Promised End
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This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
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Myriad Landscape
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Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
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Rejuvenating Springs
Color Identity:G,U
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Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
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Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
Color Identity:U
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When Brinelin, the Moon Kraken enters the battlefield or whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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Prismatic Vista
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{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/190748/magic-modern-horizons-prismatic-vista
Reliquary Tower
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You have no maximum hand size.
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Worldly Tutor
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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Archetype of Imagination
Color Identity:U
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Creatures you control have flying. Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.
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Beast Within
Color Identity:G
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Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
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Mosswort Bridge
Color Identity:G
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Hideaway (This land enters the battlefield tapped. When it does, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library.)
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/243905/magic-commander-adventures-in-the-forgotten-realms-mosswort-bridge
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
Color Identity:U
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Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
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Praetor's Counsel
Color Identity:G
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Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
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Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
Color Identity:G,U
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Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with lesser mana value. If you don't cast it, put it into your hand.
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Alchemist's Refuge
Color Identity:G,U
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{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/58370/magic-avacyn-restored-alchemists-refuge
Snow-Covered Island
Color Identity:U
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Thryx, the Sudden Storm
Color Identity:U
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Flash
Flying
Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/206831/magic-theros-beyond-death-thryx-the-sudden-storm
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Color Identity:U
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Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.
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Hinterland Harbor
Color Identity:G,U
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Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
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{T}: Add {C}.
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Vizier of the Menagerie
Color Identity:G
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You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast creature spells.
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Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
Color Identity:G
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You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
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Pongify
Color Identity:U
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Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
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Bane of Progress
Color Identity:G
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When Bane of Progress enters the battlefield, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Progress for each permanent destroyed this way.
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Akroma's Memorial
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Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.
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Tropical Island
Color Identity:G,U
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Rishkar's Expertise
Color Identity:G
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Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
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Archetype of Endurance
Color Identity:G
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Creatures you control have hexproof. Creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and can't have or gain hexproof.
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Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Color Identity:G
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Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/169109/magic-core-set-2019-goreclaw-terror-of-qal-sisma
Consecrated Sphinx
Color Identity:U
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Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
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Beast Whisperer
Color Identity:G
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Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
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Scavenger Grounds
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/236219/magic-commander-2021-scavenger-grounds
Apex Altisaur
Color Identity:G
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When Apex Altisaur enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Enrage — Whenever Apex Altisaur is dealt damage, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
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Wood Elves
Color Identity:G
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When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Kodama's Reach
Color Identity:G
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Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
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Apex Devastator
Color Identity:G
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Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
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Growth Spiral
Color Identity:G,U
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Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
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Soul of the Harvest
Color Identity:G
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Trample Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.
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Fierce Empath
Color Identity:G
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When Fierce Empath enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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Fabled Passage
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{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215556/magic-core-set-2021-fabled-passage
Spark Double
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $8.26
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You may have Spark Double enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary if that permanent is legendary.
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Sakashima's Protege
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.39
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Flash Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.) You may have Sakashima's Protege enter the battlefield as a copy of any permanent that entered the battlefield this turn.
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Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.60
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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
TrampleBuy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/216172/magic-jumpstart-ghalta-primal-hunger
Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.05
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({T}: Add {U}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215717/magic-core-set-2021-island-264
Sol Ring
Market Price: $0.00
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{T}: Add {C}{C}.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/247528/magic-commander-collection-black-sol-ring
Sweet-Gum Recluse
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.15
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Flash Cascade Reach When Sweet-Gum Recluse enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.
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The Great Henge
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $43.54
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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/199361/magic-throne-of-eldraine-the-great-henge
Exotic Orchard
Market Price: $0.25
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{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/254226/magic-commander-innistrad-crimson-vow-exotic-orchard
Reshape the Earth
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $3.99
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Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
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Annoyed Altisaur
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.10
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Reach, trample Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.)
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Oracle of Mul Daya
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $17.81
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You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library.
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Nexus of Fate
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $24.82
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Take an extra turn after this one. If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.
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Command Tower
Market Price: $0.00
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{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/247533/magic-commander-collection-black-command-tower
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $3.73
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Whenever you cast a green creature spell, you may search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. Whenever you cast a blue creature spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put that card into your hand.
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Exploration
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $20.46
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You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
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Rhystic Study
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $33.74
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Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/216235/magic-jumpstart-rhystic-study
Reality Shift
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $1.09
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Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
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Castle Garenbrig
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $4.60
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Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/199288/magic-throne-of-eldraine-castle-garenbrig
Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $5.36
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You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. +1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it. −2: When you cast your next creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Verdant Sun's Avatar
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.20
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Whenever Verdant Sun's Avatar or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
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Avenger of Zendikar
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $6.04
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When Avenger of Zendikar enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
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Strip Mine
Market Price: $14.13
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/1938/magic-fourth-edition-strip-mine
Nyxbloom Ancient
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $16.28
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Trample If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.
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Kogla, the Titan Ape
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $1.21
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When Kogla, the Titan Ape enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
{1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/212082/magic-ikoria-lair-of-behemoths-kogla-the-titan-ape
Sylvan Library
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $43.87
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At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
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Yavimaya Coast
Color Identity:G,U
Market Price: $0.50
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/236347/magic-commander-2021-yavimaya-coast
Winding Canyons
Market Price: $32.83
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{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may cast creature spells this turn as though they had flash.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/6131/magic-weatherlight-winding-canyons
Finale of Devastation
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $34.36
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Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.
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Scroll Rack
Market Price: $15.34
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{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/226675/magic-commander-legends-scroll-rack
Field of the Dead
Market Price: $17.82
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Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/192562/magic-core-set-2020-field-of-the-dead
Ghost Quarter
Market Price: $1.47
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/166821/magic-commander-anthology-volume-ii-ghost-quarter
Seasons Past
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $2.83
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Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.
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Cultivate
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.44
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Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
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Snow-Covered Forest
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $0.80
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({T}: Add {G}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/230146/magic-kaldheim-snowcovered-forest-284
Omniscience
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $13.59
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You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.
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Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $24.11
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Trample Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
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Noxious Revival
Color Identity:G
Market Price: $11.27
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({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/39555/magic-new-phyrexia-noxious-revival
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Removal was one of the hardest things to integrate into this deck. Most great removal spells are incredibly low in mana cost, and while we want to have some low-cost spells in our deck, flooding the list with them can't create a lot of feels-bad moments. So chat and I had to get creative. Of course we had to include Pongify, Beast Within, Reality Shift, and Cyclonic Rift, but with the remainder of our removal is a bit more complex.
We desperately needed artifact and enchantment removal. We originally had Krosan Grip and Oko, Thief of Crowns to help facilitate this, however, they were ultimately cut because they didn't fit the higher CMC theme.
Kogla, the Titan Ape and Bane of Progress are great creatures to cascade into that grant us some nice artifact and enchantment removal. While Bane of Progress only removes when it enters the battlefield, Kogla is amazing because we can destroy a target whenever it attacks. Plus, when it enters the battlefield it fights another creature, making it a fun instance of single target removal.
Speaking of fighting, our final form of removal is Apex Altisaur. More often than not, this won't stay on the battlefield long. When it enters the battlefield it fights target creature we don't control. This will trigger its enrage ability, making it fight more creatures our opponents control. The result is a fun board wipe on a stick that also triggers Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty cascade ability.
This deck can't run off creatures and creatures alone—this isn't a Nikya of the Old Ways brew. We need some dummy thicc spells to pad out the rest of our strategy.
Sea Gate Restoration, Rishkar's Expertise, and Dig Through Time are great high-cost spells that not only trigger our commander's cascade but allow us to snag some much-needed cards. Cards like Praetor's Counsel and Seasons Past are perfect for us to recur some of our most powerful creatures and spells.
But the deck's most powerful spell is Omniscience. This 10-mana enchantment makes all our spells free while leaving their huge mana costs intact. Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty still triggers even though we paid nothing for our spells!
The MVP of this deck is a card that I ignored when it first released in Theros Beyond Death: Thryx, the Sudden Storm.
If I could give Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty a partner, it would be this legendary creature. They seem to go hand in hand. We've already loaded this deck with high-cost spells, and Thryx, the Sudden Storm makes them all better, lowering their costs and preventing opponents from countering them. Who cares if the blue player has mana available—tap out with confidence! While Thryx does not fall under Imoti's cascade threshold, he supports all the spells that do, landing him on this week's MVP throne!
When I first laid eyes on Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty, I knew immediately that I wanted to build around her. However, I'd be lying if I said I knew where to begin. Cascade was something I had only fiddled with in passing with The First Sliver. This ability was definitely outside of my comfort zone, and I am so happy to have a chat that helped me strengthen this aspect of my deck building.
There are so many more new cards to explore from Commander Legends. Let's get to brewing!