The Commander
Reach
Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Guide
Gameplan
Build a board of modified creatures (counters, Equipment, Auras), give them trample via Kodama, and crash in for combat damage. Each connection ramps you a basic land, snowballing your mana into ever-larger threats and overwhelming the table. You aim to go wide and tall, then convert the explosive ramp into a finisher or just bash players out.
Strengths
- Free ramp on every combat hit accelerates you far ahead on mana
- Trample makes counter-pumped creatures push through chump blockers reliably
- Mono-green gives access to the deck's best counter and Aura payoffs
- Cheap commander (3 MV) that comes down early and survives removal-light tables
Weaknesses
- Mono-green lacks interaction, card-draw consistency, and removal flexibility
- Relies on combat damage—board wipes and fliers/Fog effects stall the engine
- Slow to close if your creatures get repeatedly blocked or removed
- Vulnerable to counter-hate (Solemnity) and Equipment/Aura removal
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Multiplies every +1/+1 counter you place, supercharging modified creatures and triggers.
- The Ozolith — Banks counters when creatures die, keeping your modified-creature engine and ramp online through removal.
- Branching Evolution — Doubles counters to make even small creatures trample over for massive damage and ramp.
- Shifting Shadow — Cheap Auras and counters turn on Kodama's modified clause—pick efficient enablers, but core is counter doublers.
- Inkmoth Nexus — A modified, evasive threat that can carry counters and infect into a quick kill.
- Crawling Barrens — A land that grows with counters, becoming a modified, trampling, ramping threat.
Upgrade Path
Add counter-doublers (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Doubling Season) and proliferate effects to maximize both board power and Kodama's ramp. Improve interaction and protection with green's best—Heroic Intervention, Snake's Disdain, and fast mana like Sol Ring/Carpet of Flowers—then cap with an explosive finisher such as Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes for a poison kill.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelm the table with oversized trampling creatures in combat
- ▸Infect/poison via modified creatures like Inkmoth Nexus or Phyrexian Crusader
- ▸Ramp into a giant finisher like Craterhoof Behemoth or End-Raze Forerunners for a single alpha strike
- ▸Voltron a commander or key creature with Equipment to deal lethal trample damage
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — Counters are the easiest, most scalable form of modification and trigger Kodama's ramp.
- Voltron — Equipment and Auras count as modifications, so a single trampling threat both connects and ramps.
- Aggro/Stompy — Cheap creatures, counter doublers, and trample let you go tall and wide to beat down the table.
- Infect — Modified infect creatures with trample deliver poison counters fast and reliably.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
