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Helga, Skittish Seer - Ramp into large creatures that pay for themselves
Helga, Skittish Seer · GUW · 100 cards · 39 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 51Instants 6Sorceries 1Enchantments 1Planeswalkers 1Lands 39
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Strategy
Every creature costing four or more draws a card, gains life and grows Helga, and Helga then taps for mana equal to her power toward exactly those spells. The deck is built so that casting something expensive makes the next expensive thing cheaper and refills the hand, which is why the curve here is deliberately heavier than a normal build.
Early: Accelerate with small green mana creatures. Birds of Paradise, Noble Hierarch, Llanowar Elves and Delighted Halfling get Helga down on turn three, and Kiora's Follower and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner untap her for a second use.
Mid: Helga comes online and each four-drop is a card and a counter. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma and Thryx, the Sudden Storm cut the cost of the whole top end, Garruk's Uprising and Beast Whisperer turn the big bodies into draw, and Hydroid Krasis scales with whatever mana is spare.
Late: Kalonian Hydra doubles the counters Helga has been collecting, Apex Devastator cascades four times, and Ghalta, Primal Hunger arrives for almost nothing once the board is large. Koma, Cosmos Serpent and Defiler of Vigor keep the pressure going through removal.
Win conditions: Trample damage from a board that got large faster than anyone could answer. Craterhoof Behemoth is the clean finisher, Great Oak Guardian pushes a stalled swing through, and Cyclonic Rift or Austere Command resets a table that got ahead.
- Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma - Makes the whole top end cheaper
- Garruk's Uprising - Trample plus a card for every big creature
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger - Nearly free once the board is big
- Craterhoof Behemoth - Turns the board into lethal damage
~$307.15
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Helga, Skittish Seer
Legendary Creature — Frog Druid
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.
Creatures (51)
Chulane, Teller of Tales
Legendary Creature — Human Druid
$5.91
Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Forgotten Ancient
Creature — Elemental
$0.31
Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$3.73
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Inga and Esika
Legendary Creature — Human God
$1.82
Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."
Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.
Chakram Retriever
Creature — Elemental Dog
$5.31
Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Legendary Creature — Bear
$1.2
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Hydroid Krasis
Creature — Jellyfish Hydra Beast
$0.32
When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Sparring Mummy
Creature — Zombie
$0.05
When this creature enters, untap target creature.
Thunderous Snapper
Creature — Turtle Hydra
$0.19
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.
Giant-Sized Flying Ant
Creature — Insect
$0.13
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Tap target nonland permanent.
• Untap target nonland permanent.
Breaching Hippocamp
Creature — Horse Fish
$0.06
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, untap another target creature you control.
Tanufel Rimespeaker
Creature — Elemental Wizard
$0.18
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 4 or greater, draw a card.
Ancestral Statue
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.16
When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Great Oak Guardian
Creature — Treefolk
$0.15
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Reach
When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.
Genesis Hydra
Creature — Plant Hydra
$0.37
When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Vastwood Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$1.17
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature among any number of creatures you control.
Shalai, Voice of Plenty
Legendary Creature — Angel
$1.1
Flying
You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof.
{4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Saryth, the Viper's Fang
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
$1.89
Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.
{1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.
Noble Hierarch
Creature — Human Druid
$11.01
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.
Surrak and Goreclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Bear
$6.47
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.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$6.03
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Mulldrifter
Creature — Elemental
$0.29
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Silverback Elder
Creature — Ape Shaman
$8.13
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.
Kalonian Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$6.07
Trample
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Apex Devastator
Creature — Chimera Hydra
$7.87
Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$0.93
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Thryx, the Sudden Storm
Legendary Creature — Elemental Giant
$0.23
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.
Kami of Whispered Hopes
Creature — Spirit
$4.29
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Defiler of Vigor
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$3.25
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.
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$3.23
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control.
{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on up to two target creatures and/or artifacts you control.
Koma, Cosmos Serpent
Legendary Creature — Serpent
$4.69
This spell can't be countered.
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil.
Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one —
• Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn.
• Koma gains indestructible until end of turn.
Goldvein Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$3.3
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
Fanatic of Rhonas
Creature — Snake Druid
$12.43
{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{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 Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Delighted Halfling
Creature — Halfling Citizen
$25.14
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Mystic Snake
Creature — Snake
$0.62
Flash
When this creature enters, counter target spell.
Railway Brawler
Creature — Rhino Warrior
$6.35
Reach, trample
Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{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.)
Craterhoof Behemoth
Creature — Beast
$23.08
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
The Goose Mother
Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra
$0.32
Flying
The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up.
Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.28
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Nulldrifter
Creature — Eldrazi Elemental
$1.29
When you cast this spell, draw two cards.
Flying
Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Galadriel, Light of Valinor
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
$26.97
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Add {G}{G}{G}.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.
High Fae Trickster
Creature — Faerie Wizard
$4.19
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Venser, Shaper Savant
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.38
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.
Twenty-Toed Toad
Creature — Frog Wizard
$7.13
Your maximum hand size is twenty.
Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card.
Whenever this creature attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.
Foundation Breaker
Creature — Elemental
$0.29
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$15.69
Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +2/+2.
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.
Instants (6)
Swords to Plowshares
Instant
$0.89
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Polliwallop
Instant
$0.21
Affinity for Frogs (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Frog you control.)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to twice its power to target creature you don't control.
Path to Exile
Instant
$0.64
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.47
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.1
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorceries (1)
Austere Command
Sorcery
$0.29
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Enchantments (1)
Garruk's Uprising
Enchantment
$0.4
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Planeswalkers (1)
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Legendary Planeswalker — Kiora
$0.52
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.
Lands (39)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.29
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.23
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.
Gavony Township
Land
$2.24
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Oakhollow Village
Land
$0.62
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Frog, Rabbit, Raccoon, or Squirrel you control that entered the battlefield this turn.
Alchemist's Refuge
Land
$0.41
{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Mistrise Village
Land
$7.41
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.19
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Karn's Bastion
Land
$2.7
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Castle Garenbrig
Land
$8.89
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.
Lilypad Village
Land
$0.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{U}, {T}: Surveil 2. Activate only if a Bird, Frog, Otter, or Rat entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
Command Tower
Land
$0.24
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Exotic Orchard
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Breeding Pool
Land — Forest Island
$9.52
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Hinterland Harbor
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
Temple Garden
Land — Forest Plains
$7.05
({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Hallowed Fountain
Land — Plains Island
$7.11
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Basic lands: 12 Forest 7 Island 2 Plains
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