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Kogla, the Titan Ape · G · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Strategy
Kogla, the Titan Ape leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting +1/+1 counters on things and growing them out of range. The list holds 20 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.24.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Heronblade Elite and the other 20 ramp pieces exist to get Kogla, the Titan Ape out well before its printed cost of 6 would allow.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Druid of Purification is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Rishkar's Expertise keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Ezuri's Predation for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.24 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins by growing a threat past what the table can answer and connecting with it.
- Eternal Witness - Core to the plan
- Timeless Witness - Core to the plan
- Slippery Bogbonder - Core to the plan
- Heronblade Elite - Ramp
- Karametra's Acolyte - Ramp
- Whisperer of the Wilds - Ramp
- Druid of Purification - Interaction
- Ulvenwald Tracker - Interaction
~$319.17
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Kogla, the Titan Ape
Legendary Creature — Ape
When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
{1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creatures (46)
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Timeless Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.3
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Slippery Bogbonder
Creature — Human Druid
$4.41
Flash
Hexproof
When this creature enters, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature.
Heronblade Elite
Creature — Human Warrior
$2.64
Vigilance
Whenever another Human you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Karametra's Acolyte
Creature — Human Druid
$0.36
{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Whisperer of the Wilds
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.25
{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Druid of Purification
Creature — Human Druid
$0.7
When this creature enters, starting with you, each player may choose an artifact or enchantment you don't control. Destroy each permanent chosen this way.
Ulvenwald Tracker
Creature — Human Shaman
$5.35
{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.
Somberwald Sage
Creature — Human Druid
$0.5
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Setessan Petitioner
Creature — Human Druid
$0.15
When this creature enters, you gain life equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Champion of Lambholt
Creature — Human Warrior
$2.81
Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block creatures you control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Saryth, the Viper's Fang
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
$1.77
Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.
{1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.
Augur of Autumn
Creature — Human Druid
$0.34
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Seedborn Muse
Creature — Spirit
$15.44
Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.
Silverback Elder
Creature — Ape Shaman
$7.48
Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$7.61
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Surrak and Goreclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Bear
$21.52
Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
Hyrax Tower Scout
Creature — Human Scout
$0.28
When this creature enters, untap target creature.
Drumhunter
Creature — Human Druid Warrior
$0.19
At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may draw a card.
{T}: Add {C}.
Destiny Spinner
Enchantment Creature — Human
$1.09
Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered.
{3}{G}: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.
Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman
$0.45
Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, draw a card.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Tireless Tracker
Creature — Human Scout
$0.22
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Shaman of Forgotten Ways
Creature — Human Shaman
$8.28
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Formidable — {9}{G}{G}, {T}: Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures they control. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.
Halana, Kessig Ranger
Legendary Creature — Human Archer Ranger
$0.3
Reach
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay {2}. When you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Hornbash Mentor
Creature — Human Warrior
$0.22
When this creature enters, put a trample counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{2}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with trample.
Beastbond Outcaster
Creature — Human Druid
$0.19
When this creature enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Plot {1}{G} (You may pay {1}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
The Earth King
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Ally
$2.07
When The Earth King enters, create a 4/4 green Bear creature token.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with power 4 or greater attack, search your library for up to that many basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Borderland Ranger
Creature — Human Scout Ranger
$0.12
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Outcaster Trailblazer
Creature — Human Druid
$1.65
When this creature enters, add one mana of any color.
Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Plot {2}{G} (You may pay {2}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Legendary Creature — Human Monk
$11.77
You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.
Masked Vandal
Creature — Shapeshifter
$1.51
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
Temur Sabertooth
Creature — Cat
$0.88
{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Wose Pathfinder
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.19
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{6}{G}, {T}: Another target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Legendary Creature — Elf Scout
$5.3
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Raucous Audience
Creature — Human Citizen
$0.12
{T}: Add {G}. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add {G}{G} instead.
Defiler of Vigor
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$3.71
Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Professor Hojo
Legendary Creature — Human Scientist
$0.22
The first activated ability you activate during your turn that targets a creature you control costs {2} less to activate.
Whenever one or more creatures you control become the target of an activated ability, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Chomping Changeling
Creature — Shapeshifter
$1.57
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
Surrak, the Hunt Caller
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$0.13
Formidable — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.39
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Surrak, Elusive Hunter
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$0.53
This spell can't be countered.
Trample
Whenever a creature you control or a creature spell you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, draw a card.
Doomskar Warrior
Creature — Human Warrior
$0.22
Backup 1
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instants (9)
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Heroic Intervention
Instant
$9.16
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.28
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Crop Rotation
Instant
$3.45
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Return of the Wildspeaker
Instant
$1.43
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Ram Through
Instant
$0.37
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.
Nature's Claim
Instant
$0.57
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Hunter's Insight
Instant
$0.31
Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.
Lifestream's Blessing
Instant
$0.55
Draw X cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you controlled as you cast this spell. If this spell was cast from exile, you gain twice X life.
Foretell {4}{G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorceries (5)
Cultivate
Sorcery
$0.36
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Rishkar's Expertise
Sorcery
$4.55
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.41
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Ezuri's Predation
Sorcery
$2.91
For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.
Season of Gathering
Sorcery
$5.89
Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
{P} — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn.
{P}{P} — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type.
{P}{P}{P} — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
Artifacts (2)
Rhonas's Monument
Legendary Artifact
$1.47
Green creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
Lands (37)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Castle Garenbrig
Land
$8.92
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
{2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.3
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
War Room
Land
$5.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Bonders' Enclave
Land
$0.36
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Tranquil Thicket
Land
$0.11
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Scavenger Grounds
Land — Desert
$0.29
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Land
$0.37
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.
Basic lands: 25 Forest
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