The math on Coco is beaten to death, but in short, the deck needs 22+ hittable creatures for reasonable consistency on hitting 2 targets in 6 cards. We can safely assume with 22+ humans in Winota.dec + some number of non-humans we get good consistency (note: Winota only needs to hit 1 target in 6 cards, but must hit a human type). Obviously, this is a heavy deck building restriction! To get around this, the trick is to use humans that create non-human tokens. This leaves 1-2CMC slots for mostly non-humans while 2+ CMC slots are for humans.
How Winota gets busted is by causing her to trigger multiple times and early in game. To achieve multiple triggers, we can use non-human tokens such as Seasoned Pyromancer, Raise the Alarm or Chandra, Acolyte of Flame. To achieve triggers early in the game, we can use non-human mana dorks such as Birds of Paradise and Gilded Goose that accelerate Winota and then later join her for an attack.
Seasoned Pyromancer, the MVP, that cycle dead cards and creates 2 non-human tokens
It's worth mentioning that Winota, Joiner of Forces can also find another Winota with her trigger and replace herself in an attacking, indestructible state. That's a lot of pressure! Even with 2 triggers as early as T3-4, your board state will snowball out of control.
All of these you can do by T3 to snowball out of control.
Common in Coco decks, Horizon Canopy and Sunbaked Canyon let you cycle your lands for more gas since you're already playing 8 mana dorks. Gavony Township let's you go tall in longer games since this deck already inherently goes wide.
There's some weird artifact synergy with Gilded Goose's artifact food token, Blade Splicer golem, Pia Nalaar and Pia and Kiran Nalaar's thopters and abilities. You can pump up the golem, which can have first strike. You could sac an artifact to prevent a blocker. Or, you could throw the golem or repeatedly lay and throw eggs for 2 damage in a pinch.
One future variant for Winota is to use the 5 color Humans deck as a base to open up to humans from all colors. Another variant could be to add blue for Neoform.
Winota is similar to Collected Company in that it
The math on Coco is beaten to death, but in short, the deck needs 22+ hittable creatures for reasonable consistency on hitting 2 targets in 6 cards. We can safely assume with 22+ humans in Winota.dec + some number of non-humans we get good consistency (note: Winota only needs to hit 1 target in 6 cards, but must hit a human type). Obviously, this is a heavy deck building restriction! To get around this, the trick is to use humans that create non-human tokens. This leaves 1-2CMC slots for mostly non-humans while 2+ CMC slots are for humans.
How Winota gets busted is by causing her to trigger multiple times and early in game. To achieve multiple triggers, we can use non-human tokens such as Seasoned Pyromancer, Raise the Alarm or Chandra, Acolyte of Flame. To achieve triggers early in the game, we can use non-human mana dorks such as Birds of Paradise and Gilded Goose that accelerate Winota and then later join her for an attack.
Your juiciest targets for Winota are
It's worth mentioning that
Winota, Joiner of Forces can also find another Winota with her trigger and replace herself in an attacking, indestructible state. That's a lot of pressure! Even with 2 triggers as early as T3-4, your board state will snowball out of control.
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Gilded Goose
4x Voice of Resurgence
1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4x Blade Splicer
4x Seasoned Pyromancer
3x Fiend Hunter
1x Pia Nalaar
1x Eternal Witness
1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1x Huntmaster of the Fells
3x Avalanche Riders
4x Winota, Joiner of Forces
2x Forest
2x Gavony Township
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Mountain
2x Plains
1x Sacred Foundry
2x Stomping Ground
1x Sunbaked Canyon
2x Temple Garden
3x Windswept Heath
4x Wooded Foothills
4x Eldritch Evolution
This modern Naya Winota deck is a variant on the Naya Kiki Evo deck that runs Eldritch Evolution. I've kept Eldritch Evolution to enable:
All of these you can do by T3 to snowball out of control.
Common in Coco decks, Horizon Canopy and Sunbaked Canyon let you cycle your lands for more gas since you're already playing 8 mana dorks. Gavony Township let's you go tall in longer games since this deck already inherently goes wide.
There's some weird artifact synergy with Gilded Goose's artifact food token, Blade Splicer golem, Pia Nalaar and Pia and Kiran Nalaar's thopters and abilities. You can pump up the golem, which can have first strike. You could sac an artifact to prevent a blocker. Or, you could throw the golem or repeatedly lay and throw eggs for 2 damage in a pinch.
One future variant for Winota is to use the 5 color Humans deck as a base to open up to humans from all colors. Another variant could be to add blue for Neoform.