At a glance
- Format: Standard Brawl
- Commander: The Earth King
- Colors: Green (G)
- Archetype: Mono-Green stompy/ramp (earthbend)
- Power tier: high
- Standard Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Ramp into a wall of fat, trampling green threats and let The Earth King turn every power-4 swing into a free pile of lands. The King makes a 4/4 Bear on ETB, then whenever one or more power-4-or-greater creatures attack you search out that many basics tapped, so a single big attacker snowballs into double-digit mana. The engine is earthbend: Toph, Badgermole, The Boulder, Earthbender Ascension, Earthbending Lesson, Earth Rumble and Ba Sing Se all turn lands into hasty 0/0 land-creatures stacked with +1/+1 counters, each one simultaneously ramp, a body, and (at 4+ counters) another power-4 attacker to feed the King. Tendril of the Mycotyrant is the two-drop that scales: a 2/2 early, then a {5}{G}{G} sink that dumps seven counters onto a land for an immediate hasty 7/7 — a King trigger, +7 to Toph, and a trampler via Badgermole. Note the animated land has no death-return clause, so removal on it costs you the land. Cheap dorks (Llanowar Elves, Druid of the Cowl, Raucous Audience), Arcane Signet, Rampant Growth and Solemn Simulacrum deploy the top end a turn early. Garruk’s Uprising, Badgermole and Enduring Vitality blanket the team in trample and mana; fight removal (Earth Rumble, Plow Through, Chelonian Tackle, Felling Blow, Affectionate Indrik) uses the oversized bodies to clear blockers. Mossborn Hydra, Rampaging Baloths, Quilled Greatwurm and Sire of Seven Deaths close.
Upgrade path
Patched 2026-08-10 after Badgermole Cub was banned in Standard Brawl. Zero wildcards: Tendril of the Mycotyrant is uncommon and owned x3. Chosen as the same {1}{G} 2/2 body plus a {5}{G}{G} mana sink (seven counters onto a land, making a hasty 7/7 that is a power-4 attacker for The Earth King and +7 to Toph) — this deck runs 25 lands and 7 accelerants, so flooding is its real failure mode. Caveat verified on review: Tendril’s animation is NOT the earthbend keyword and carries no death-return rider, so removal on the animated land costs you the land permanently. Nothing in this 59 has an earthbend-count trigger, so the distinction is otherwise harmless. Honest cost: unlike the ug/wg lists, Badgermole Cub’s mana-doubling WAS live here (Llanowar Elves, Druid of the Cowl, Raucous Audience, Enduring Vitality), so this deck genuinely loses something.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 The Earth King
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
1 Raucous Audience
1 Arcane Signet
1 Aang's Journey
1 Studious First-Year
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Bushwhack
1 Plow Through
1 Earth Rumble
1 Chelonian Tackle
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Affectionate Indrik
1 Unforgiving Aim
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Earthbending Lesson
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Quilled Greatwurm
1 Sire of Seven Deaths
1 Badgermole
1 Felling Blow
1 Command Tower
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Three Tree City
20 Forest
1 Ouroboroid
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Enduring Vitality
1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
1 The Legend of Kyoshi
1 Genesis Wave
1 Tendril of the Mycotyrant
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal mono-green fully embraces earthbend ramp into a haymaker curve. Bloom Tender and Bristly Bill add premium ramp/counters, while the top end swaps owned filler for the best green bombs: Craterhoof Behemoth as the alpha-strike finisher, Ghalta / Vaultborn Tyrant / Lumra / Tyvar as unbeatable threats, and Doubling Season to double The Earth King’s ramp and every earthbend counter. Top craft priorities: Craterhoof Behemoth, Doubling Season, Bristly Bill Spine Sower, Ghalta Stampede Tyrant, Lumra Bellow of the Woods.
Crafts to reach the ideal: 14 (12 mythic, 2 rare)
- Mythic: Ancient Adamantoise, Bloom Tender, Blossoming Tortoise, Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, Craterhoof Behemoth, Doubling Season, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Overlord of the Hauntwoods, Traveling Chocobo, Tyvar, the Pummeler, Vaultborn Tyrant, Vivien Reid
- Rare: Archdruid’s Charm, Crawling Barrens
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 The Earth King
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Bloom Tender
1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Arcane Signet
1 Studious First-Year
1 Traveling Chocobo
1 Badgermole
1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
1 Toph, the Blind Bandit
1 Earthbender Ascension
1 Earthbending Lesson
1 Case of the Trampled Garden
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Earth Rumble
1 Plow Through
1 Chelonian Tackle
1 Felling Blow
1 Archdruid's Charm
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
1 Vivien Reid
1 Blossoming Tortoise
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Vaultborn Tyrant
1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
1 Sire of Seven Deaths
1 Quilled Greatwurm
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Ancient Adamantoise
1 Doubling Season
1 Ba Sing Se
1 Three Tree City
1 Command Tower
1 Sunken Citadel
1 Crawling Barrens
1 Fabled Passage
1 Starting Town
17 Forest
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