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
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 Shared Roots
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 Changeling Wayfinder
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Cloudkin Seer
1 Knowledge Seeker
1 Oblivious Bookworm
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 Curious Forager
1 Mischievous Mystic
1 Kishla Skimmer
1 Tempest Hart
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Command Tower
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Three Tree City
1 Thriving Isle
1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy
1 Simic Guildgate
1 Thornwood Falls
1 Meditation Pools
1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
1 Crossroads Village
1 Starting Town
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Breeding Pool
12 Forest
12 Island
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
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