At a glance
- Format: Standard
- Colors: Green (G)
- Archetype: Mono-Green stompy / earthbend-ramp / fight
- Power tier: mid
- Standard: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Mono-green beatdown built on a single question: can you put a power-4 creature on the board and attack with it? Almost every payoff in the deck is gated on that clause, so the shell is tuned to answer yes on turn three. Shopkeeper’s Bane and Eager Trufflesnout are the enablers — eight copies of a {2}{G} 4/2 trampler, one gaining 2 life on attack and the other making Food when it connects. Everything else is the payoff suite: Raucous Audience taps for {G}{G} the moment a power-4 body is out, Nessian Hornbeetle grows every combat once one is beside it, Garruk’s Uprising hands the team trample and refills your hand every time a power-4 creature enters, The Earth King drops a 4/4 Bear and then fetches a basic for each power-4 attacker, and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble earthbends X where X is your power-4 count. Earthbend is still the throughline — Badgermole earthbends 2 and grants trample to everything carrying counters, Ba Sing Se can earthbend at sorcery speed, and Earth Rumble earthbends 2 and turns an oversized creature into removal via fight. Llanowar Elves and a Druid of the Cowl cover the early acceleration, and Gigantosaurus is the 10/10 top end that mono-green’s all-Forest manabase casts without apology. You are always the aggressor: deploy on curve, attack into the power-4 triggers, trample over. The deck trades the old ramp-into-fatties ceiling for a much higher floor — its explosive draws are gone, but it now does the same thing every game and does it a turn sooner.
Upgrade path
Rebuilt 2026-08-10 after Badgermole Cub was banned in Standard. ZERO rare/mythic crafts — cost is 1 common + 1 uncommon wildcard (4th Shopkeeper’s Bane, 4th Eager Trufflesnout). The ban removed the mana engine that was holding together a top-heavy ramp curve, so the deck was re-pointed at the power-4-matters axis every surviving payoff is actually gated on: eight {2}{G} 4/2 tramplers (Shopkeeper’s Bane, Eager Trufflesnout) put a power-4 body on turn 3 instead of turn 5-6. Cut the cards that only worked off the banned accelerant: Ouroboroid (a 1/3 that distributes one counter on arrival), Mossborn Hydra (0/0 entering as a 1/1), Rampaging Baloths (6 mana), and the 1-of Vizier of the Menagerie whose ‘any type’ clause is dead in mono-green. Earth Rumble to 4 (owned) fixes the maindeck interaction hole. All rares owned: The Earth King own4, Gigantosaurus own2, Ba Sing Se own3.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Deck
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
4 Raucous Audience
3 Nessian Hornbeetle
2 Garruk's Uprising
2 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
4 The Earth King
3 Badgermole
4 Earth Rumble
20 Forest
3 Ba Sing Se
2 Gigantosaurus
4 Shopkeeper's Bane
4 Eager Trufflesnout
Sideboard
A 15-card sideboard for best-of-three (Traditional) play — swap these in game 2/3 against the matchups below.
Mono-Green’s structural holes are evasive fliers, enchantment engines it can’t touch game 1, and fast starts. The board is deliberately modal so few cards are dead in any matchup.
vs Mono-Red Aggro / Gruul / Boros: +2 Primordial Pachyderm, +1 Scavenging Ooze, +1 Migrating Ketradon / -2 Gigantosaurus, -1 Druid of the Cowl, -1 Druid of the Cowl. Reach blockers + lifegain (Pachyderm gains 2, Ketradon 4, Ooze grows and gains) to stabilize and go over the top. Glorious Decay’s 4-damage-to-flyer mode also kills a Screaming Nemesis by exile-free burn only if needed; mostly rely on the fat blockers.
vs Dimir Midrange: +3 Unforgiving Aim, +2 Rooftop Percher, +1 Pawpatch Formation / -3 Earth Rumble, -2 Raucous Audience, -1 Druid of the Cowl. Aim and Pawpatch answer Enduring Curiosity (enchantment) or their evasive fliers; Rooftop Percher is a flying blocker that also exiles their graveyard and gains life. Threats already dodge spot removal by being huge.
vs Golgari Midrange / Zur Domain: +3 Unforgiving Aim, +2 Origin of Metalbending, +1 Pawpatch Formation / -3 Earth Rumble, -2 Raucous Audience, -1 Druid of the Cowl. Enchantment removal for Unholy Annex, Overlords, and other engines; go bigger than their midrange.
vs Azorius Oculus: +2 Rooftop Percher, +3 Glorious Decay, +2 Primordial Pachyderm / -3 Earth Rumble, -2 Raucous Audience, -2 Gigantosaurus. Rooftop Percher and Glorious Decay exile graveyard cards to starve the reanimator, and both Percher (flying) and Pachyderm (reach) wall Abhorrent Oculus.
vs Mono-White Tokens / Jeskai Convoke: +3 Unforgiving Aim, +2 Origin of Metalbending / -3 Earth Rumble, -2 Raucous Audience. Aim/Origin blow up Caretaker’s Talent / Enduring Innocence engines; our big bodies block the go-wide swarm while ramp overpowers them.
Full deck with sideboard (paste into Arena for Bo3):
Deck
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Druid of the Cowl
4 Raucous Audience
3 Nessian Hornbeetle
2 Garruk's Uprising
2 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
4 The Earth King
3 Badgermole
4 Earth Rumble
20 Forest
3 Ba Sing Se
2 Gigantosaurus
4 Shopkeeper's Bane
4 Eager Trufflesnout
Sideboard
3 Unforgiving Aim
3 Glorious Decay
2 Origin of Metalbending
2 Rooftop Percher
2 Primordial Pachyderm
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Migrating Ketradon
1 Pawpatch Formation
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