The Commander
Trample
The Mycotyrant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control that are Fungi and/or Saprolings.
At the beginning of your end step, create X 1/1 black Fungus creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is the number of times you descended this turn. (You descend each time a permanent card is put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with Fungus and Saproling tokens while feeding your graveyard to trigger descend, then convert that wide army into damage—either through The Mycotyrant's trampling body or with overrun effects and aristocrat drains. You self-mill, sacrifice, and cycle permanents into the graveyard each turn to maximize the end-step token payout, snowballing into a lethal swarm.
Strengths
- Self-contained engine: the commander makes tokens every turn just for filling your own graveyard, which BG does effortlessly with self-mill and sacrifice.
- Token-wide boards pair perfectly with anthems, overrun effects, and aristocrat drains for redundant win conditions.
- Recursive and grindy—black/green excels at value, recursion, and out-attriting opponents.
- Cheap three-mana commander whose stats scale automatically, so it threatens commander damage without much investment.
Weaknesses
- Heavily reliant on the commander being on the field; without it the deck is just a pile of tokens with no engine.
- Vulnerable to board wipes that erase the token army you spent turns building.
- Descend triggers only at end step, so the payoff is slow and reactive rather than explosive.
- Limited interaction and no evasion outside trample—stalls against fliers and go-tall decks.
Key Cards
- Sporecrown Thallid — Anthem that buffs all your Fungus and Saprolings, directly pumping the commander and the swarm.
- Mycoloth — Devours your tokens for a massive end-step explosion of Saprolings, supercharging the board.
- Slimefoot, the Stowaway — Turns Saprolings into repeatable damage and life loss while making more bodies.
- Altar of Dementia — Sacrifices your token army to self-mill, fueling multiple descend triggers and even milling opponents out.
- Pitiless Plunderer — Each dying token makes Treasure, ramping you while you sacrifice fodder for descend.
- Craterhoof Behemoth — Converts a wide token board into immediate lethal trample damage.
- Tendershoot Dryad — Generates a Saproling every upkeep and becomes a city's blessing anthem to overwhelm the table.
Upgrade Path
Add efficient sacrifice outlets and self-mill (Altar of Dementia, Viscera Seer, Stitcher's Supplier, Golgari Grave-Troll) to maximize descend counts every turn, then layer multiple aristocrat payoffs for redundant drains. Tighten the mana with fast rocks and dual lands, and include protection like Heroic Intervention and Boros Charm-style indestructibility to survive wraths. For higher power, lean into a combo finish—Mycoloth plus a sacrifice outlet and Pitiless Plunderer can loop into explosive boards.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun effects like Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede turning the token army lethal
- ▸Aristocrat drains via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and mass sacrifice
- ▸Commander damage from a giant trampling Mycotyrant
- ▸Milling the table out with Altar of Dementia powered by sacrificed tokens
Archetypes
- Tokens — The commander's end-step trigger and Fungus/Saproling synergies build a wide board fast.
- Aristocrats — Sacrificing tokens fuels descend triggers while draining opponents and recurring value.
- Graveyard/Self-mill — Descend rewards dumping permanents into your graveyard, so mill and discard accelerate token production.
- Go-Wide Beatdown — Anthems and overrun effects turn the swarm into combat lethality alongside the trampling commander.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BG), by popularity.
