At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Sythis, Harvest’s Hand
- Colors: Green / White (GW)
- Archetype: Selesnya enchantress lifegain-counters (budget)
- Power tier: competitive
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Ramp out cheap dorks and mana auras, drop Sythis, then let a wall of cheap enchantments each replace themselves in cards and life. The core combo survives the budget cut fully intact: Scurry Oak plus any life-on-ETB body (Soul Warden, Impassioned Orator, Dazzling Angel) loops infinite Squirrels and infinite life, and Conclave Mentor, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Hallowed Priest, Celestial Unicorn, and Trelasarra turn every trickle of lifegain into a growing counter army. Cheap enchantress payoffs (Satyr Enchanter, Blessed Spirits, Generous Visitor, Season of Growth) plus owned draw engines (Colossal Majesty, Garruk’s Uprising, Elemental Bond) keep the hand full. A dense enchantment-removal suite (Banishing Light, Stasis Snare, Sheltered by Ghosts, Ossification, Cast Out, Conclave Tribunal, Buried in the Garden) interacts while still feeding Sythis, and owned bombs (Quilled Greatwurm, Rampaging Baloths, Regal Caracal, Mossborn Hydra) plus Anthem of Champions and Invasion Tactics close games go-wide.
Upgrade path
This is the playable-now build: exactly one rare/mythic craft, the commander Sythis, Harvest’s Hand itself (not owned). Every other card is owned or a cheap common/uncommon craft. Where the ideal reaches for unaffordable rares/mythics, this swaps in the best in-role budget piece: Heliod/Archangel of Thune → Hallowed Priest, Attended Healer, Cat Collector, Celestial Unicorn (lifegain→counter redundancy that keeps the Scurry Oak combo online); Setessan Champion/Eidolon of Blossoms/Enchantress’s Presence/Archon of Sun’s Grace → Blessed Spirits, Generous Visitor, Season of Growth, Spirited Companion; Craterhoof/Elspeth/Nissa → Anthem of Champions + Invasion Tactics + owned token finishers; Path/Skyclave/Farewell/Heliod’s Intervention → Cast Out, Conclave Tribunal, Buried in the Garden, Dimensional Exile, Prison Realm; Smothering Tithe/Sanctum Weaver → Unbridled Growth, Gift of Paradise, Weirding Wood, Enduring Vitality. Upgrade path toward the ideal (The Verdant Ledger): craft Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Doubling Season first (combo/counter multipliers), then Setessan Champion, Eidolon of Blossoms, Enchantress’s Presence, the tutors (Idyllic Tutor, Green Sun’s Zenith, Sterling Grove), and the mythic finishers (Craterhoof Behemoth, Elspeth Sun’s Champion, Archangel of Thune).
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Woodland Mystic
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Wolfwillow Haven
1 New Horizons
1 Unbridled Growth
1 Gift of Paradise
1 Weirding Wood
1 Enduring Vitality
1 Satyr Enchanter
1 Destiny Spinner
1 Blessed Spirits
1 Generous Visitor
1 Season of Growth
1 Sixth Sense
1 Spirited Companion
1 Ulvenwald Mysteries
1 Kenrith's Transformation
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Elemental Bond
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Scurry Oak
1 Soul Warden
1 Impassioned Orator
1 Dazzling Angel
1 Conclave Mentor
1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
1 Trelasarra, Moon Dancer
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Hallowed Priest
1 Attended Healer
1 Cat Collector
1 Celestial Unicorn
1 Prideful Parent
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Invasion Tactics
1 Anthem of Champions
1 Starfield of Nyx
1 Sapling Nursery
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Regal Caracal
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Quilled Greatwurm
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Banishing Light
1 Stasis Snare
1 Sheltered by Ghosts
1 Ossification
1 Dimensional Exile
1 Buried in the Garden
1 Conclave Tribunal
1 Cast Out
1 Prison Realm
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Valorous Stance
1 Snakeskin Veil
1 Veil of Summer
1 Command Tower
1 Karn's Bastion
1 Nesting Grounds
1 Demolition Field
1 Temple Garden
1 Hushwood Verge
17 Forest
14 Plains
Ideal build (upgrade target)
The power-ceiling build (multi-agent workflow output) — every premium payoff and the full combo/synergy package. The current list is the playable-now budget version; craft toward this as your wildcards come in.
Crafts to reach the ideal: 24 (6 mythic, 18 rare)
- Mythic: Archangel of Thune, Craterhoof Behemoth, Doubling Season, Elspeth, Sun’s Champion, Heliod, Sun-Crowned, Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
- Rare: Archon of Sun’s Grace, Cathars’ Crusade, Eidolon of Blossoms, Elspeth Conquers Death, Enchantress’s Presence, Farewell, Green Sun’s Zenith, Heliod’s Intervention, Heroic Intervention, Idyllic Tutor, Kami of Transience, Path to Exile, Sanctum Weaver, Setessan Champion, Sigil of the Empty Throne, Skyclave Apparition, Smothering Tithe, Sterling Grove
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Woodland Mystic
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Wolfwillow Haven
1 New Horizons
1 Sanctum Weaver
1 Smothering Tithe
1 Setessan Champion
1 Eidolon of Blossoms
1 Enchantress's Presence
1 Satyr Enchanter
1 Destiny Spinner
1 Kami of Transience
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Elemental Bond
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Scurry Oak
1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
1 Soul Warden
1 Impassioned Orator
1 Dazzling Angel
1 Conclave Mentor
1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
1 Trelasarra, Moon Dancer
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Archangel of Thune
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Sterling Grove
1 Starfield of Nyx
1 Archon of Sun's Grace
1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
1 Doubling Season
1 Cathars' Crusade
1 Sapling Nursery
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Regal Caracal
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Quilled Greatwurm
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Path to Exile
1 Banishing Light
1 Stasis Snare
1 Sheltered by Ghosts
1 Skyclave Apparition
1 Ossification
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Elspeth Conquers Death
1 Farewell
1 Heliod's Intervention
1 Valorous Stance
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Snakeskin Veil
1 Veil of Summer
1 Command Tower
1 Karn's Bastion
1 Demolition Field
1 Nesting Grounds
1 Temple Garden
1 Hushwood Verge
16 Forest
15 Plains
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