It’s Landfall, stupid. by SanicOnSpeed

Format: Commander

Commander: Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This mono-green stompy deck is helmed by Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, turning every land drop into creature growth while threatening exponential board scaling through its activated counter-doubling ability. The list integrates a dense package of fetchlands and ramp spells alongside counter amplifiers such as Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, and The Earth Crystal. Card velocity is sustained through landfall engines like Tireless Tracker and burst draw like Return of the Wildspeaker and Inspiring Call. The deck reliably transitions from an early 2-drop commander deployment into an overwhelming combat presence by Turn 5, granting trample via Kodama of the West Tree, Duskshell Crawler, or Sphere Grid to trample over blockers. While the list lacks proactive stax and stack-based interaction, it protects its engine with efficient defensive spells like Heroic Intervention and Veil of Summer, closing games through rapid board wide lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Broken Bond
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fertilid
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 26 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Gaea's Touch
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stocking the Pantry
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Wood Elves