GreenCreature — Human Monk // Legendary Creature — Human MonkBudoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
Mana value2Rank#11,273
The Commander
: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you control ten or more lands, flip this creature.
, : Create an X/X green Elemental creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp aggressively to flip Budoka Gardener into Dokai at ten lands, then use the activated ability to pump out massive X/X Elementals every turn. The deck wins through go-wide and go-tall green beatdown backed by a huge land count, often closing with one giant trampling token or an overrun effect.
Strengths
- Cheap two-mana commander that doubles as a ramp engine and a token factory
- Scales naturally with lands, so every Cultivate-style spell advances multiple plans
- Mono-green consistency and access to the best ramp and big-creature payoffs
- Flipped Dokai produces repeatable, enormous threats from the command zone
Weaknesses
- Slow to come online; needs ten lands before Dokai becomes a real engine
- Mono-green struggles with interaction—few answers to flyers, counters, or removal
- Tokens are vulnerable to board wipes, which reset all your invested mana
- No evasion built in, so big Elementals can be chumped or stalled
Key Cards
- Crucible of Worlds — Lets you replay fetchlands and ramp lands from the yard, accelerating to ten lands and beyond.
- Cultivate — Puts an extra land into play to push toward the flip while fixing your land drops.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — Turns your wide Elemental board into a lethal alpha strike in one swing.
- Scute Swarm — Snowballs with every land drop alongside your high land count for an overwhelming token army.
- Khalni Heart Expedition — Cheap double-land ramp that helps hit ten lands fast to flip Gardener.
- Heroic Intervention — Protects your board and tokens from wraths and targeted removal at instant speed.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and untap effects (Sol Ring, Nature's Lore, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger) to reach the flip faster and double land triggers. Include land-untap combos like Selvala or Argothian Elder with Crucible loops for infinite mana into giant tokens, and pack more protection (Heroic Intervention, Tamiyo's Safekeeping) and recursion to survive wraths. Top-end payoffs like Avenger of Zendikar, Craterhoof, and Finale of Devastation give consistent one-shot kills.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun effects like Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede turning the board lethal
- ▸A single enormous trampling Elemental or pumped commander-adjacent threat
- ▸Going wide with token generators (Scute Swarm, Avenger of Zendikar) and swarming
- ▸Infinite mana combos producing an arbitrarily large army of Elementals
Archetypes
- Lands/Ramp — Budoka rewards stacking lands and provides extra land drops to fuel a high-count manabase.
- Tokens — Dokai's activated ability and synergistic land-based token makers flood the board with bodies.
- Stompy/Big Mana — Massive land counts enable huge X/X tokens and expensive green payoffs.
- Combo — Land-untap and token loops can generate infinite mana or arbitrarily large Elementals.
Combos
- Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
→ Infinite landfall triggers
- Meloku the Clouded Mirror + Retreat to Coralhelm + Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
→ Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite landfall triggers
- Uyo, Silent Prophet + Retreat to Coralhelm + Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
→ Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite copies of instant and sorcery spells on the stack, Infinite landfall triggers
- Oboro Breezecaller + Retreat to Coralhelm + Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
→ Infinite landfall triggers
- Soratami Mirror-Mage + Retreat to Coralhelm + Budoka Gardener // Dokai, Weaver of Life
→ Infinite landfall triggers, Return any number of creatures to their owners' hands, Return any creature to its owner's hand when it enters the battlefield
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
