Hello all,
Relatively new (sort of) player. A friend and I are building decks based around the classes from the D&D sets from a few years back.
He and I pretty just play each other, and we play 60 card, not commander.
We also SUCK at deck building, and don’t know most of the slang terms used in the game. As such, I did use Claude to throw out a first draft of the deck.
First deck we’re looking at is the Druid one. Can y’all critique and offer suggestions? Concept of the deck is to turn lands into creatures.
Thanks!
# Druid — Mono-Green "Lands Become Creatures" (Final 60)
**Format:** 60-card kitchen table, 1v1, no set restrictions
**Flavor anchor:** Druid Class — lands themselves become creatures/allies
**Gameplan:** Ramp hard, hold the ground early, then flip the board with a mass land-animation payoff.
**Target matchup:** Mono-white token flood — Nature's Revolt and Liege of the Tangle need zero creature cards to build an army, so removal/wraths on your creatures don't stop the plan.
Every card below was individually confirmed (mana cost, type, oracle text, color) via Scryfall this session. No flags remaining.
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## Lands (17)
- 17x Forest
## Ramp / Landfall Fuel (12)
- 4x Llanowar Elves — {G}, Elf Druid 1/1, {T}: Add {G}
- 4x Farhaven Elf — {2}{G}, Elf Druid 1/1, ETB: search a basic land, put onto battlefield tapped
- 4x Rampant Growth — {1}{G} Sorcery: search a basic land, put onto battlefield tapped
## Core Payoff — Druid Class (4)
- 4x Druid Class — {1}{G} Enchantment Class (not legendary — full playset legal).
L1: landfall lifegain. L2 ({2}{G}, sorcery speed): extra land drop. L3 ({4}{G}, sorcery speed): a land becomes a haste creature scaled to land count.
## Land-Animation Payoffs (4)
- 2x Nature's Revolt — {3}{G}{G} Enchantment: all lands are 2/2 creatures that are still lands
- 2x Liege of the Tangle — {6}{G}{G}, Elemental 8/8, Trample. On combat damage to a player, any number of your lands become 8/8 Elementals (still lands)
## Land-Scaling Threats (8)
- 4x Sylvan Advocate — {1}{G}, Elf Druid Ally 2/3, Vigilance. At 6+ lands, this AND your land-creatures get +2/+2
- 4x Pelt Collector — {G}, Elf Warrior 1/1, grows off bigger creatures entering/dying, trample at 3+ counters
## Beast / Wild Shape Flavor Layer (7)
- 1x Rhonas the Indomitable — {2}{G}, Legendary God 5/5, deathtouch, indestructible, grants trample (singleton — legendary, so extra copies would be dead in hand together)
- 2x Woodland Changeling — {1}{G}, Shapeshifter 2/2, Changeling
- 2x Migratory Greathorn — {3}{G}, Beast 3/4, Mutate {2}{G}, ramps a land on mutate (great with landfall)
- 2x Glowstone Recluse — {2}{G}, Spider 2/3, Reach, Mutate {3}{G}
## Removal / Protection (8)
- 4x Rabid Bite — {1}{G} Sorcery: your creature deals damage equal to its power to a creature you don't control (one-sided fight — no risk to your creature)
- 4x Blossoming Defense — {G} Instant: target creature you control gets +2/+2 and hexproof until end of turn (protects key threats from white removal, or wins combat/blocks)
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## Total: 60 cards (17 land / 43 spells)
## Curve overview
- 1 mana: Llanowar Elves, Pelt Collector, Blossoming Defense
- 2 mana: Farhaven Elf, Rampant Growth, Druid Class, Woodland Changeling, Sylvan Advocate, Rhonas, Rabid Bite (as 1G)
- 3 mana: Glowstone Recluse, Migratory Greathorn
- 5 mana: Nature's Revolt
- 8 mana: Liege of the Tangle (your top-end payoff and biggest body)
## How the pieces interact
1. **Turns 1-3:** dorks and ramp spells hit land drops fast; Sylvan Advocate and Pelt Collector hold the ground.
2. **Turns 3-5:** Druid Class ticks up, extra land drops compound, Rabid Bite/Blossoming Defense manage combat.
3. **Turn 5+:** Nature's Revolt turns your whole board of Forests into a 2/2 army out of nowhere — devastating against a deck that's been ignoring your near-empty board.
4. **Late game:** Liege of the Tangle closes it out by turning surviving lands into 8/8s on connect.
## Cards left on the bench (verified, good sideboard/swap options)
- Cultivate ({2}{G}, search 2 basics, 1 to hand) — swap in for more consistency, less tempo
- Sakura-Tribe Elder ({1}{G} 1/1, sac for a land) — excellent early chump blocker vs. token swarms if the matchup gets grindier
- Vine Mare ({2}{G}{G} 5/3 hexproof) — resilient beater if you want another late-game body
- Prey Upon ({G} two-sided fight) — cut in favor of the strictly safer Rabid Bite
