The Commander
At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is Obuun's power. It's still a land.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp aggressively into lands while accumulating +1/+1 counters via landfall triggers, then animate a land each combat into a big trampling, hasty beater. You grind incremental value off every land drop, eventually overwhelming the table with counter-pumped creatures and animated lands.
Strengths
- Strong, repeatable ramp and landfall payoffs in a color identity packed with land synergies
- Built-in evasion and haste via Obuun's combat trigger lets animated lands hit immediately
- Counters scale well with proliferate, doublers, and go-wide token boards
- Naya colors give access to premium ramp, removal, and counter support
Weaknesses
- Animating lands exposes your mana base to creature removal and board wipes
- Obuun himself is a fragile 3/4 that the deck leans on heavily
- Counter strategies are vulnerable to -X/-X effects and creature sweepers
- No card draw or evasion in the color identity beyond what you build in
Key Cards
- Scute Swarm — Each land drop floods the board with tokens that all become landfall counter targets and proliferate fodder.
- The Great Henge — Obuun and counter creatures get huge, paying for the Henge and refilling your hand with explosive card draw.
- Doubling Season — Doubles every +1/+1 counter from landfall and any token counters, turning value into a snowball.
- Crucible of Worlds — Replays fetchlands and sacrificed lands to retrigger landfall and stack counters every turn.
- Avenger of Zendikar — Creates a wide board of Plant tokens that grow with each subsequent land drop via landfall.
- Walking Ballista — Loads up on counters from landfall then converts them into repeatable removal or a finisher.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and extra land-drop enablers (Exploration, Burgeoning, Azusa, Oracle of Mul Daya) to multiply landfall triggers each turn. Layer in counter doublers and proliferate (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Inspiring Call) plus protection like Heroic Intervention and Lightning Greaves to insulate your fragile commander and animated lands. Cap it with fetchlands and Crucible/Ramunap Excavator loops to make every turn an explosive landfall sequence.
Core Cards
- Needle Spires
- Selesnya Guildgate
- Sun Titan
- Sporemound
- Planar Outburst
- Seer's Sundial
- Retreat to Emeria
- Emeria Shepherd
- Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
- Abundance
- Mina and Denn, Wildborn
- Boros Guildgate
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Animate a high-power land each combat and swing for trampling commander or big damage
- ▸Go wide with token makers like Avenger of Zendikar and Scute Swarm pumped by landfall counters
- ▸Walking Ballista or Triumph of the Hordes converts a counter-heavy board into lethal
- ▸Voltron a counter-stacked Obuun with trample and evasion for fast commander-damage kills
Archetypes
- Landfall — Obuun's second ability rewards every land drop with a +1/+1 counter, making land-matters the core engine.
- +1/+1 Counters — Each landfall distributes counters that scale with proliferate and doublers into a counter midrange deck.
- Lands Ramp — Naya ramp and extra land drops fuel both Obuun's combat animation and constant counter triggers.
- Voltron — Pile counters and equipment onto Obuun or an animated land for a trampling commander-damage threat.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GRW), by popularity.
