Populate life by user4984081

Format: Commander

Commander: Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Trostani leads a token-populate deck that floods the battlefield with doubled creature tokens and converts that flood into life, combo outlets, or an unblockable army. The primary plan is to resolve one or more token multipliers and generate explosive populate chains; secondary paths are a Sprout Swarm buyback loop with altars/doublers, persist loops with Vizier of Remedies and Blasting Station, and a Legion Loyalty/Blightsteel Colossus one-shot. Trostani's role is lifegain and populate, but she is not the engine: Rhys the Redeemed is the hidden commander, and Doubling Season/Parallel Lives/Mondrak are the true accelerants. The deck is resilient because of redundant generators, but has almost no card draw, ramp, or stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerie Ouphes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani's Mantra
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Angelic Accord
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Anointer Priest
  • 1 Armada Wurm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Blade Splicer
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodspore Thrinax
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bramble Sovereign
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Darien, King of Kjeldor
  • 1 Darksteel Splicer
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elspeth Tirel
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emmara Tandris
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Growing Ranks
  • 1 Healer of the Pride
  • 1 Heartmender
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Hollowhenge Overlord
  • 1 Impassioned Orator
  • 1 Kithkin Spellduster
  • 1 Legion Loyalty
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Mirror Box
  • 1 Mirror Gallery
  • 1 Mirrormind Crown
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Muster the Departed
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Processor
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Purity
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rhys the Redeemed
  • 1 Scion of Vitu-Ghazi
  • 1 Song of the Worldsoul
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Spawnsire of Ulamog
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Trostani's Summoner
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Twilight Shepherd
  • 1 Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
  • 1 Vizier of Remedies
  • 1 Voice of Resurgence
  • 1 Wayfaring Temple
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine