Landfall Ho! by user3585915

Format: Commander

Commander: Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

Bristly Bill, Spine Sower turns ordinary land drops into permanent creature growth and can later double all +1/+1 counters. The deck accelerates with Sol Ring, mana creatures, Utopia Sprawl, land tutors, and extra-land effects. Its strongest games combine the commander with Evolution Sage, Nissa, Resurgent Animist, Tireless Provisioner, or Rampaging Baloths, then convert the developed board into combat damage with Garruk's Uprising, Unnatural Growth, or Overwhelming Stampede. Card flow is respectable once a large creature board exists, especially through Rishkar's Expertise and Shamanic Revelation, but early access and protection are limited. The deck ordinarily assembles its first usable commander engine around turn 6, reaches a must-answer combat board around turn 8, and finishes over later combat steps rather than through a compact combo. Its main weakness is exposure to board wipes, removal aimed at the commander, and the need to keep creatures alive long enough to attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Bushmaster, Coiled Henchman
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Dungrove Elder
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fog
  • 35 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Ka-Zar of the Savage Land
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necklace of Girion
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Summon: Fat Chocobo
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unstable Molecule Suit
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Yeva, Nature's Herald