At a glance
- Format: Standard Brawl
- Commander: Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- Colors: Blue / Green (UG)
- Archetype: Simic ramp/value (landfall card-advantage control)
- Power tier: mid — grindy value engine, tightened ramp curve, light-but-real clock
- Standard Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Tatyova turns every land that ENTERS into a card + a life, so the build leans hard into spells that put extra lands onto the battlefield — each one is a double or triple landfall trigger once she’s online. The ramp suite now front-loads the most efficient land-into-play pieces: Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth (a 1-drop body that’s also a Rampant Growth), Shared Roots, Prishe’s Wanderings, Tend the Sprigs, They Went This Way, Circuitous Route, Cycle of Renewal (sac one land, fetch two — net +1 land and two triggers), plus Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic and Solemn Simulacrum. On top of that sit repeatable land engines that keep triggers coming every turn: PuPu UFO and Seedship Agrarian (Lander tokens), Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo (Bird landfall payoff that flips into a land fetch), Nicanzil, Loot, and the extra-land-drop draw spells Ignis Scientia and Lessons from Life. Badgermole Cub is a 2-mana green ramp engine (extra G whenever you tap a creature for mana). A dense counter/bounce package — An Offer You Can’t Refuse, Essence Scatter, Negate, Spell Pierce, Disdainful Stroke, Spellgyre, Quandrix Charm, Into the Flood Maw, Proctor’s Gaze — protects the engine and stalls while you out-resource the table, and Quick Study / Chart a Course smooth draws. Close with the fat blue payoffs: Wan Shi Tong, Quantum Riddler, Curator of Destinies, Kiora’s 8/8 Scion of the Deep once the graveyard fills, plus ground beaters Berta, Mistmeadow Council, and Apothecary Stomper. Gameplan: survive early, ramp into Tatyova, bury the table in cards and life, then finish with evasive value creatures.
Upgrade path
Only one unowned card: Breeding Pool (1 copy), the approved UG branch-out shock. Every other card is owned (own>=1), including the owned rares/mythics run as creatures/payoffs (Quantum Riddler, Curator of Destinies, Wan Shi Tong, Berta, Loot, Ignis Scientia, Kiora the Rising Tide, Badgermole Cub) — no rare/mythic SPELL crafts. Refinement vs prior list: cut Embrace the Paradox, Colossadactyl, Cuboid Colony, Shinestriker, Banishing Betrayal, Bigfin Bouncer, and Arcane Epiphany (slow/vanilla top-end and redundant bounce/draw); added eight owned commons/uncommons (plus owned-rare Kiora and owned-mythic Badgermole Cub) that all generate extra Tatyova triggers or tighten the curve — Cycle of Renewal, Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth, Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo // Black Chocobo, Seedship Agrarian, PuPu UFO, Quick Study, Kiora the Rising Tide, Badgermole Cub. Kept Apothecary Stomper as the lone retained top-end beater. Exactly 59 cards in the array plus commander Tatyova, all within Simic (UG) color identity, singleton.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Deck
1 Breeding Pool
1 Command Tower
1 Simic Guildgate
1 Thornwood Falls
1 Meditation Pools
1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Conduit Pylons
5 Forest
6 Island
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Arcane Signet
1 Studious First-Year
1 Shared Roots
1 They Went This Way
1 Prishe's Wanderings
1 Tend the Sprigs
1 Cycle of Renewal
1 Circuitous Route
1 Ignis Scientia
1 Nicanzil, Current Conductor
1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
1 Badgermole Cub
1 PuPu UFO
1 Seedship Agrarian
1 Sidequest: Raise a Chocobo
1 Lessons from Life
1 Proctor's Gaze
1 Berta, Wise Extrapolator
1 Quantum Riddler
1 Curator of Destinies
1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
1 Spell Pierce
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Quandrix Charm
1 Spellgyre
1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Mossborn Hydra
1 Vizier of the Menagerie
1 Tishana's Tidebinder
1 Archmage of Runes
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