At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- Colors: Blue / Green (UG)
- Archetype: Simic ramp/value
- Power tier: mid-high
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Tatyova turns every land drop into a free card and a life, so the deck slams extra lands and buries the table in card advantage. This pass tightened the early curve: added the cheap ramp the build was missing — Druid of the Cowl (clean turn-2 dork) and Badgermole Cub, a 2-mana ramp ENGINE that earthbends a land into a body AND adds an extra {G} whenever you tap a creature for mana. That leans into the owned earthbend package (Ba Sing Se’s earthbend land, Earthbender Ascension, Icetill Explorer) which doubles as ramp, evasive bodies, and counters. Dedicated landfall payoffs (Rampaging Baloths, Grappling Kraken, Mossborn Hydra, Mightform Harmonizer, Chocobo Racetrack, Elfsworn Giant) snowball board and tempo, and Colossal Majesty was added as a recurring draw engine that’s trivially online with the deck’s many power-4 bodies. A dense counter + bounce suite protects Tatyova and answers threats while you out-card the table, and the big blue payoffs (Quantum Riddler, Riddlemaster Sphinx, Enduring Curiosity, Primeval Bounty) close once the engine hums. Trimmed four top-heavy/filler cards (clunky 6-drops Shinestriker and Migrating Ketradon, plus vanilla cantrips Bellowing Crier and Clinquant Skymage) to make room without bloating the curve.
Upgrade path
LAND REVAMP 2026-07-11: manabase rebuilt to kill taplands (cut guildgates/temples/gainlands); now runs shock + verge (+painland in Brawl) untapped duals + basics. Land crafts this pass: Willowrush Verge, Yavimaya Coast. No rare/mythic SPELL crafts: every rare/mythic in the 99 is already owned (Solemn, Earthbender Ascension, Primeval Bounty, Rampaging Baloths, Icetill Explorer, Mightform Harmonizer, Berta, Mossborn Hydra, Riddlemaster Sphinx, Quantum Riddler, Archmage of Runes, Enduring Curiosity, Ba Sing Se, plus owned rare lands; Badgermole Cub is an owned mythic x3). Rare discipline satisfied. The ONLY crafted card remains the single approved shock, Breeding Pool (1 copy). This refinement added two owned ramp dorks (Druid of the Cowl, Badgermole Cub), an owned draw engine (Colossal Majesty), and the owned earthbend land Ba Sing Se (x3 owned) — Ba Sing Se taps for G untapped if you control a basic and converts spare mana into earthbend bodies, upgrading the manabase to 38 lands which the landfall engine happily wants. Cut Shinestriker, Migrating Ketradon, Bellowing Crier, Clinquant Skymage. Future upgrade: a 2nd/3rd untapped Simic dual would let you shave a tapland; solid as-is.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Deck
1 Studious First-Year
1 Tend the Sprigs
1 They Went This Way
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 World Map
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Cloudkin Seer
1 Knowledge Seeker
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Elfsworn Giant
1 Grappling Kraken
1 Icetill Explorer
1 Mightform Harmonizer
1 Chocobo Racetrack
1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo
1 Spell Pierce
1 Negate
1 Essence Scatter
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Quandrix Charm
1 Spellgyre
1 Refute
1 Out of Air
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Unsummon
1 Exclusion Mage
1 Proctor's Gaze
1 Earth Rumble
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Berta, Wise Extrapolator
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Cuboid Colony
1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
1 Quantum Riddler
1 Archmage of Runes
1 Enduring Curiosity
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Mischievous Mystic
1 Tempest Hart
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Elemental Bond
1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
1 Unforgiving Aim
1 Banishing Betrayal
1 Pawpatch Formation
1 Command Tower
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Three Tree City
1 Starting Town
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Breeding Pool
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Yavimaya Coast
16 Forest
15 Island
1 The Earth King
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Growth Spiral
1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal supercharges Tatyova’s draw-a-card-per-land engine with premium extra-land and landfall payoffs (Scute Swarm, Ancient Greenwarden, Nissa Who Shakes the World, Roiling Regrowth, Sylvan Awakening, Uro) stacked on a big fixing/draw core (Hydroid Krasis, Tishana, The Great Henge, Beast Whisperer). Fabled Passage/Misty Rainforest and creaturelands double every land drop into Tatyova triggers; a lean counter/bounce suite protects the engine. Simic Ascendancy is a stealth alt-win as counters pile up. Top craft priorities: Ancient Greenwarden (mythic), Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath (mythic), The Great Henge (mythic), Nissa, Who Shakes the World (rare), Hydroid Krasis (mythic).
Crafts to reach the ideal: 32 (8 mythic, 18 rare, 5 uncommon, 1 common)
- Mythic: Ancient Greenwarden, Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft, Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, Hydroid Krasis, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, The Great Henge, Tishana, Voice of Thunder, Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
- Rare: Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway, Beast Whisperer, Boseiju, Who Endures, Botanical Sanctum, Guardian Project, Hedge Maze, Hinterland Harbor, Hullbreaker Horror, Kappa Cannoneer, Lumbering Falls, Nadir Kraken, Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Otawara, Soaring City, Restless Vinestalk, Scute Swarm, Simic Ascendancy, Sylvan Awakening, Waterlogged Grove
- Uncommon: Cultivate, Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner, Migration Path, Paradise Druid, Roiling Regrowth
- Common: Farseek
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Paradise Druid
1 Badgermole Cub
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Growth Spiral
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Migration Path
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Scute Swarm
1 Ancient Greenwarden
1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Simic Ascendancy
1 Roiling Regrowth
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
1 Sylvan Awakening
1 Grappling Kraken
1 Hydroid Krasis
1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
1 The Great Henge
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Guardian Project
1 Colossal Majesty
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Enduring Curiosity
1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
1 Hullbreaker Horror
1 Nadir Kraken
1 Kappa Cannoneer
1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
1 Quantum Riddler
1 Archmage of Runes
1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
1 Elfsworn Giant
1 Counterspell
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
1 Spell Pierce
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Fading Hope
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Pawpatch Formation
1 Berta, Wise Extrapolator
1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Changeling Wayfinder
1 Mightform Harmonizer
1 Elemental Bond
1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Icetill Explorer
1 Command Tower
1 Breeding Pool
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Botanical Sanctum
1 Barkchannel Pathway
1 Waterlogged Grove
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Hedge Maze
1 Restless Vinestalk
1 Lumbering Falls
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Fabled Passage
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Three Tree City
1 Ba Sing Se
11 Forest
10 Island
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