The Commander
When Phylath enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each basic land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put four +1/+1 counters on target Plant you control.
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp into Phylath, flood the board with Plant tokens equal to your basic lands, then turn extra land drops into massive +1/+1 counter pumps. You grind value through land-based ramp and recursion, building a wide army that quickly gets tall and lethal.
Strengths
- Immediate board presence the turn Phylath lands, scaling with basic count
- Landfall counters make Plants huge fast for go-wide or go-tall attacks
- Deep synergy with land ramp, fetches, and extra land-drop effects
- Green/Red gives strong recursion and ramp to recast Phylath after removal
Weaknesses
- Relies on basic lands, so fetchlands and nonbasic-heavy mana bases shrink the ETB payoff
- Board wipes erase the Plant army and reset your investment
- Counters concentrate on one Plant, vulnerable to spot removal
- No built-in evasion or trample without support; can be chump-blocked
Key Cards
- Avenger of Zendikar — Makes its own Plant army that synergizes perfectly with landfall counter payoffs.
- Scute Swarm — Each land drop copies it and triggers landfall, exploding both bodies and counters.
- Rampaging Baloths — Turns extra land drops into Beasts while feeding the landfall engine.
- Crucible of Worlds — Replays fetched and sacrificed lands to retrigger landfall and counters repeatedly.
- Khalni Heart Expedition — Drops two lands at once for double counter triggers and ramp.
- Cultivate — Fetches basics to thin the deck and boost Phylath's ETB token count.
Upgrade Path
Maximize basic land count and add cheap extra-land-drop effects like Exploration, Burgeoning, and Azusa to multiply landfall triggers. Add fetchable ramp plus Crucible of Worlds and Ramunap Excavator loops, then close games with trample/anthem payoffs like Overwhelming Stampede or Pathbreaker Ibex. Include resilience via Heroic Intervention and recursion to protect your stacked Plant from removal.
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
- ▸Swing with a single hyper-pumped Plant for commander damage or one-shot kills
- ▸Go wide with Plants and finish via Overrun-style anthem effects
- ▸Trample through with Rampaging Baloths/Avenger armies after counter pumps
Archetypes
- Tokens — Phylath floods the board with Plants and grows them via landfall.
- Lands — Extra land drops and land recursion directly fuel the counter engine.
- +1/+1 Counters — Landfall stacks four counters per land, enabling counter-matters payoffs.
- Ramp/Stompy — Aggressive green ramp produces oversized creatures that swing for lethal.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
