Man Thing by BingChillingJr

Format: Commander

Commander: Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Mono-Green Landfall and +1/+1 Counters Stompy strategy commanded by Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. The game plan revolves around deploying Bill early, leveraging fetchlands and land-ramp effects to accumulate +1/+1 counters rapidly, and compounding that board state with counter doublers like Doubling Season, Innkeeper's Talent, and The Earth Crystal. By Turn 6, the deck transitions into critical onset by activating Bill's ability to double counters or dropping massive threats like Cultivator Colossus and Railway Brawler. Trample enablers ensure that the resulting gargantuan creatures break through opposing blockers to finish the table across two combat rotations by Turn 8. While the deck boasts robust mana generation, high card velocity, and resilient threat density, it operates with minimal interaction and limited defensive shielding against mass exile wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bristlebud Farmer
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Fog
  • 22 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Hall of Triumph
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 1 Jaheira's Respite
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kaysa
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
  • 1 Norwood Priestess
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
  • 1 Ride the Shoopuf
  • 1 Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel
  • 1 Sazh's Chocobo
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sledge-Class Seedship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Terminal Moraine
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thunderous Velocipede
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Twisted Spider-Clone
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Vernal Bloom
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor