Playing Modern on a budget is easy these days, with so many strategies cheaper than ever before. It wasn't as straightforward back when Wizards of the Coast was less aggressive with reprints, and when Masters sets were not as common as they are now.

In those days, just one strategy served as the de facto gateway to Modern for new players.

Mono-Green Stompy used to be a popular budget option since it was fast, resilient, and affordable. Despite not being at the forefront of entry-level Modern, it continues to be an excellent choice since you can use existing Standard cards for the strategy.

Mono-Green Stompy plays a different approach compared to other mono-colored aggressive builds. Green aggression lies in big creatures with game-ending keywords such as trample, and uses instants to grow the power of those creatures. Over the last few years the strategy has gone through a couple of changes, since Standard is pushing the power level of newer cards—especially in the green slice of the color pie. The strategy remains accessible, and holds its own in local competitive environments.

Budget Mono-Green Stompy

Mono-Green Stompy is achievable on a budget since the strategy centers around commons, uncommons, and affordable rares.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Stompy (Budget) by Emmmzyne

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Cards

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $4.49

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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample

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Hashep Oasis

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.12

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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.
{1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.47

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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.

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Weather the Storm

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.13

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You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

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Choke

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $3.51

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Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

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Rancor

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.88

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Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Rancor to its owner's hand.

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Strangleroot Geist

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.29

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Haste
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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Treetop Village

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.10

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Treetop Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

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Avatar of the Resolute

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.10

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Reach, trample
Avatar of the Resolute enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Aspect of Hydra

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.23

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Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

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Obstinate Baloth

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.43

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When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

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Vines of Vastwood

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.11

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Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.)
Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

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Damping Sphere

Market Price: $1.22

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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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Dismember

Color Identity:B

Market Price: $2.30

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({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

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Tormod's Crypt

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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

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Shapers' Sanctuary

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.01

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Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.

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Forest

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.10

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({T}: Add {G}.)

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Steel Leaf Champion

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.31

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Steel Leaf Champion can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

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Pelt Collector

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.27

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Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield or dies, if that creature's power is greater than Pelt Collector's, put a +1/+1 counter on Pelt Collector.
As long as Pelt Collector has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has trample.

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Barkhide Troll

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.13

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Barkhide Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Barkhide Troll: Barkhide Troll gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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Scavenging Ooze

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.04

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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.

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Gaea's Blessing

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.22

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Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

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Experiment One

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.71

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Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Remove two +1/+1 counters from Experiment One: Regenerate Experiment One.

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Wilt

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.18

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Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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As you can see, Mono-Green Stompy runs recent Standard cards such as Pelt Collector and Ghalta, Primal Hunger. If you are coming from Standard, Mono-Green Stompy is an excellent starting point to give those old Standard cards a new lease of life. Previously, the strategy ran vanilla creatures such as Leatherback Baloth since it could easily meet the mana demands. Due to power creep over the last few years, we have strict upgrades in Steel Leaf Champion and Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig, which are more compelling win conditions.

Even with all this power, you can struggle to close out the game since very few of your creatures come with trample. Running Rancor will mitigate this issue and offers a recursive way to trample through to victory. There is a +1/+1 counter subtheme as you are looking to grow your threats, and Avatar of the Resolute and Experiment One benefit from all the other strong creatures you play. You can run a couple of Dismember mainboard if you want direct options to remove your opponent's threats. Plus, Dismember lets you shrink your opponent's creatures to push through extra trample damage.

Rounding out the build is Aspect of Hydra and Vines of Vastwood which enable you to have explosive starts. Vines of Vastwood is the preferred combat trick since it offers extra power for an extra mana. You can run Blossoming Defense in a pinch since it also offers hexproof and damage output, and it lines up favorably if you intend to play the archetype in Pioneer.

Semi-Optimal Mono-Green Stompy

Although Stompy is a hyper-budget strategy, there are numerous ways to improve the build with interaction.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Stompy (Semi-Optimal) by Emmmzyne

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Cards

Weather the Storm

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.13

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You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

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Treetop Village

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.10

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Treetop Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $4.49

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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample

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Avatar of the Resolute

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.10

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Reach, trample
Avatar of the Resolute enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Steel Leaf Champion

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.31

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Steel Leaf Champion can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

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Force of Vigor

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $7.79

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If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

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Forest

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.10

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({T}: Add {G}.)

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Damping Sphere

Market Price: $1.22

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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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Pelt Collector

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.27

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Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield or dies, if that creature's power is greater than Pelt Collector's, put a +1/+1 counter on Pelt Collector.
As long as Pelt Collector has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has trample.

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Aspect of Hydra

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.23

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Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

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Tormod's Crypt

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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

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Choke

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $3.51

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Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

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Experiment One

Color Identity:G

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Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Remove two +1/+1 counters from Experiment One: Regenerate Experiment One.

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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Color Identity:G

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Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo. Then if that creature's power is greater than Yorvo's power, put another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.

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Barkhide Troll

Color Identity:G

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Barkhide Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Barkhide Troll: Barkhide Troll gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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Waterlogged Grove

Color Identity:G,U

Market Price: $6.02

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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

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Dismember

Color Identity:B

Market Price: $2.30

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({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

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Gaea's Blessing

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.22

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Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

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Rancor

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.88

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Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Rancor to its owner's hand.

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Strangleroot Geist

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.29

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Haste
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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Rhonas the Indomitable

Color Identity:G

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Deathtouch, indestructible
Rhonas the Indomitable can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater.
{2}{G}: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

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Scavenging Ooze

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.04

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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.

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Nurturing Peatland

Color Identity:B,G

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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Nurturing Peatland: Draw a card.

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Vines of Vastwood

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.11

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Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.)
Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

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Veil of Summer

Color Identity:G

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Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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Maindeck

Sideboard

First you'll want to look at converting those basic Forests into Nurturing Peatland and Waterlogged Grove.

Throughout the late game, you can run out of action since you are a hyper-aggressive strategy. Running around five to six of these lands will ensure you have something to do at all points of the game. Sometimes, that extra draw can prove to be enough in the right circumstances. In this instance, I'm using the cheapest variant possible since you care about generating green mana. There is a case for running Nurturing Peatland since you have Dismember, and it opens up options such as Surgical Extraction in the future. Horizon Canopy is a suitable alternative if you already have them, but these remain pricy due to the prevalence of Heliod Company and Selesnya Titan in Modern.

Rhonas the Indomitable provides another trample outlet and often becomes a creature since your devotion to green is high. Shifting to the sideboard, Veil of Summer offers shelter against countermagic and disruption, while Force of Vigor answers tricky artifacts and enchantments while allowing you to tap out on your turn. As you are in Mono-Green, you can easily pay the alternative cost on Force of Vigor.

Optimal Mono-Green Stompy

When you're looking to optimize, adding a handful of high-end cards will aid the prolonged game plan.

Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Mono-Green Stompy (Optimal) by Emmmzyne

'Mono-Green Stompy (Optimal)' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!

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Event:

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Modern

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Cards

Nurturing Peatland

Color Identity:B,G

Market Price: $7.23

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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Nurturing Peatland: Draw a card.

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Experiment One

Color Identity:G

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Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Remove two +1/+1 counters from Experiment One: Regenerate Experiment One.

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Force of Vigor

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $7.79

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If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

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Vines of Vastwood

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $1.11

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Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.)
Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

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Strangleroot Geist

Color Identity:G

Market Price: $0.29

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Haste
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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Avatar of the Resolute

Color Identity:G

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Reach, trample
Avatar of the Resolute enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Aspect of Hydra

Color Identity:G

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Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

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Tormod's Crypt

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{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

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The Great Henge

Color Identity:G

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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.

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Veil of Summer

Color Identity:G

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Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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Weather the Storm

Color Identity:G

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You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

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Rancor

Color Identity:G

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Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Rancor to its owner's hand.

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Damping Sphere

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If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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Rhonas the Indomitable

Color Identity:G

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Deathtouch, indestructible
Rhonas the Indomitable can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater.
{2}{G}: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

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Waterlogged Grove

Color Identity:G,U

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{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

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Dismember

Color Identity:B

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({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

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Treetop Village

Color Identity:G

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Treetop Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

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Hexdrinker

Color Identity:G

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Level up {1} ({1}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 3-7
4/4
Protection from instants
LEVEL 8+
6/6
Protection from everything

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Choke

Color Identity:G

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Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

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Forest

Color Identity:G

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({T}: Add {G}.)

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Barkhide Troll

Color Identity:G

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Barkhide Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Barkhide Troll: Barkhide Troll gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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Steel Leaf Champion

Color Identity:G

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Steel Leaf Champion can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

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Pelt Collector

Color Identity:G

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Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield or dies, if that creature's power is greater than Pelt Collector's, put a +1/+1 counter on Pelt Collector.
As long as Pelt Collector has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has trample.

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Color Identity:G

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This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample

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Scavenging Ooze

Color Identity:G

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{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.

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Gaea's Blessing

Color Identity:G

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Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

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Maindeck

The Great Henge is one of the most powerful additions to Mono-Green Stompy in some time. Rarely you'll cast this for the native nine mana, since your threats have decent base stats. Alongside the card draw and counters synergy, the life gain is relevant since Modern is in an aggressive phase, with Burn and Mono-Red Prowess seeing success. Due to its inherent power in Standard and Commander, The Great Henge commands a high price, but you can still play Mono-Green without the artifact if preferred.

Hexdrinker is another nod for the midrange and slower matchups. Granted, Hexdrinker is slower compared to Pelt Collector, but it makes a strong impression the longer the game progresses. Notably, Progenitus "protection from everything" clause is game-ending on its own. Again, it makes for a powerful topdeck since you can level it up multiple times in the same turn.

If you want to grind out further, Questing Beast could be an exciting addition at the top-end. Coming from Standard, Questing Beast is a hallmark of Pioneer Stompy. You don't want too many since you have a low land count, but running a couple instead of Ghalta, Primal Hunger could provide inevitability. Questing Beast lines up well against opposing planeswalkers in midrange or control matchups, which could make it an excellent addition in the right metagame. Thrun, the Last Troll is another decent option if you anticipate a control-heavy metagame since the Troll Shaman blanks removal and countermagic.

What About Kaldheim?

With the continuing Kaldheim previews, there are a handful of cards for consideration in Mono-Green Stompy.

Snakeskin Veil follows cards such as Vines of Vastwood and Blossoming Defense. What makes Snakeskin Veil a viable option is the potential counter synergy alongside Avatar of the Resolute and Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig. Since the counter remains after the spell resolves, it makes for a better defensive spell against targeted removal. Often you can lose out on damage if you have to use either Vines of Vastwood or Blossoming Defense to protect your threat on your opponent's turn. Snakeskin Veil could mitigate the downside while still offering hexproof like its predecessors. You could run a couple of Snakeskin Veil to aid the counter subtheme, but it's essential to keep the set of Aspect of Hydra since this is the best pump spell in the strategy.

Old-Growth Troll is an exciting option in Mono-Green Stompy. With the number of basic Forests in Stompy, there isn't much of a downside to running the Troll. Like Treetop Village, you can trade resources for attackers as the game progresses. Plus, the Troll can blank hate such as Field of Ruin since you run a high density of basic Forests.

However, Old-Growth Troll is competing with Steel Leaf Champion for the three-mana spot, and Steel Leaf Champion is a key part of the strategy. There is potential to run a couple of copies of the Troll if you expect a removal-heavy metagame as it pairs well with Aspect of Hydra. It's likely to feature in Mono-Green Food in Standard, and possibly in Mono-Green Aggro in Pioneer too. It's one to keep an eye on, as it offers a unique ability on top of above-average stats.

Mono-Green Stompy remains an excellent budget option if you want to enter the format on the cheap. Green has become one of the most durable colors in Magic, and its new cards are translating well into every format from Pioneer to Vintage. If you're new to Modern, why not start with a classic?