MTG Salvation

Evolution Sage
2G
Uncommon
Creature - Elf Druid
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, proliferate.
3/2

A mostly free way to proliferate hopefully 2-3~ times in a single turn, possibly ult-ing a planeswalker in one turn or trying to jank out Simic Ascendancy or something.

I'm trying to ult planeswalkers in Standard with a Bant Shell. Here's the first list off the top of my head:



Draw, Ramp, Walkers, Combo Pieces, and Ramp Payoffs as a Plan B. It probably needs actual tuning and likely gets run over by mono blue so I need to think about sideboard and tweaking the maindeck against the meta but I just wanted to get it down and see if other people were having similar thoughts.

Anyone else pondering a Lands deck in standard?

thats a whole lot of ramp for not a lot of payoff..

I'm thinking if the Sage goes into any deck it will be a Pw deck with saheeli as her minus can copy the sage for double triggers per land.

Quote from 9ta!lz »

thats a whole lot of ramp for not a lot of payoff..

I agree. GuildCaster's deck looks to play like Bant midrange/control deck that wins of the back of both Teferi's and Hydroid Krasis. However, I do think the deck is going in too many directions. I don't really see the need for all the ramp, especially if all GuildCaster is doing is trying to do is cast a big Krasis. And the deck is running too few basic lands for Circuitous Route to be worth including. I'd say the deck either needs to be Bant control (splashing G for Krasis and Evolution Sage, and gutting all the ramp) or Simic Nexus (a VERY popular archetype in Standard right now). Just needs to be a bit more focused, but the power is there.

EDIT: I meant to say "agree," not "disagree"

Reading this thread got me brewing. I like Evolution Sage because he is both a "land matters" and "counters matter" card. With this in mind, I built a deck around him:



With this build the idea is to thin the deck of lands as quickly as possible (Scapeshift, Nissa's Triumph to reach our threats, while simultaneously playing multiple lands per turn (Wayward Swordtooth, Arboreal Grazer) for ramp. Bond of Flourishing gives the deck reach via lifegain AND can find lands and threats. Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter is a bit player that acts as pseudo ramp that makes our lands and creatures bigger, as well as Treasure Map that provides scry and later ramp and card draw when it flips to Treasure Cove. The win cons come in the form of Nissa, Who Shakes the World's ult, Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar (who is an ever growing beat stick), and Living Twister, which can eliminate creature threats both early and late game via it's discard ability. Crucible of Worlds insures we never have to worry about cards being sent to the graveyard.

I've built something a tad more straight forward and in Simic:

I'm still not seeing the payoff to playing all these lands?

the whole gameplan is to win the game off the backs of lands. All cards utilize lands in order to put counters on creatures or increase loyalty with planeswalkers, it doesn't initially make sense, you actually have to play the deck a few times and then it will click.

Mending of Dominaria Resurrects a Sage, digs for a Sage, and you probably don't need more than a few counters for your Nissa anyway.

Those are all green cards.

Why can't we just be a tron deck?

Dreadhorde Invasion sure doesn't mind proliferating. Deathsprout both removes a threat AND ramps you into 5 or 6. INB4 Multani can abuse the hell out of nissa's ramp if you can play multiple lands in a turn... Proliferate works with Amass! Even Bontu works well with mending of dominaria... Why has black not been mentioned?