TROYANOS NEGRACOS by user6388842

Format: Commander

Commander: Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Simic big-mana ramp deck helmed by Troyan, Gutsy Explorer that accelerates into high-CMC haymakers and buries the table under card advantage. Early one-drop dorks, land-to-battlefield creatures, and cantrips like Explore and Growth Spiral build a mana base that casts Troyan on curve; his tap ability then feeds every spell with mana value 5 or greater and every X-spell in the list. From there the deck deploys engines (Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait) and finishers (Apex Devastator, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Hullbreaker Horror, Omniscience, Time Stretch). Primary wins are combat blowouts amplified by Unnatural Growth or Preposterous Proportions, backed by extra-turn chains and raw card denial. Troyan is the efficiency engine rather than a combo piece-valuable to recast, but the ramp package still functions without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Pioneer
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 18 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gandalf, Westward Voyager
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Glacier Godmaw
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Honest Work
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Krosan Wayfarer
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magus of the Order
  • 1 Mind Spring
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Repulsive Mutation
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Troyan, Gutsy Explorer
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Voidslime
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Witness Protection