Art by Winona Nelson
Saved commander deck
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Play extra lands each turn with Azusa to generate massive mana advantages, loop lands from the graveyard with recursion engines, trigger army-building landfall abilities, and finish opponents with massive land-animated attacks or pump spells.
Prompt: A $150 Azusa, Lost but Seeking commander deck — a lands-matter deck with heavy ramp, landfall triggers, land recursion from the graveyard, and land-based finishers.
Commander
1 cards
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
{2}{G}Legendary Creature — Human Monk
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
11 cards
Nature's Lore
{1}{G}Sorcery
fetches a forest directly to the battlefield untapped
Kodama's Reach
{2}{G}Sorcery — Arcane
fetches lands to both battlefield and hand to feed Azusa
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
{6}{G} // {2}{G}Creature — Giant // Sorcery — Adventure
early land ramp adventure attached to a massive late-game creature
Traverse the Outlands
{4}{G}Sorcery
fetches basic lands equal to highest power among your creatures
Card Draw
10 cards
Tireless Tracker
{2}{G}Creature — Human Scout
investigates on landfall to convert lands into extra card draw
Augur of Autumn
{1}{G}{G}Creature — Human Druid
allows playing lands and creatures off top of library
Beast Whisperer
{2}{G}{G}Creature — Elf Druid
draws cards whenever you cast creature spells
Rishkar's Expertise
{4}{G}{G}Sorcery
massive card draw based on largest creature's power plus free spell
Return of the Wildspeaker
{4}{G}Instant
instant draw based on highest power or mass pump finisher
Elemental Bond
{2}{G}Enchantment
draws cards whenever big creatures or token hordes enter
Garruk's Uprising
{2}{G}Enchantment
draws card on ETB and when large creatures enter, granting trample
Greater Good
{2}{G}{G}Enchantment
sacrifices high-power creatures for massive fresh hands
Hunter's Insight
{2}{G}Instant
instant speed burst draw when a land-fed threat hits an opponent
Removal
9 cards
Krosan Grip
{2}{G}Instant
split second artifact/enchantment destruction that prevents responses
Kenrith's Transformation
{1}{G}Enchantment — Aura
turns problematic commanders into vanilla elk while drawing a card
Acidic Slime
{3}{G}{G}Creature — Ooze
destroys artifact, enchantment, or land while keeping deathtouch body
Terastodon
{6}{G}{G}Creature — Elephant
destroys three noncreature permanents while deploying massive power
Song of the Dryads
{2}{G}Enchantment — Aura
turns any problematic permanent into a basic forest land
Ezuri's Predation
{5}{G}{G}{G}Sorcery
one-sided green board wipe that generates beast tokens
Threats/Wincons
22 cards
Avenger of Zendikar
{5}{G}{G}Creature — Elemental
creates token army and pumps them permanently on landfall
Rampaging Baloths
{4}{G}{G}Creature — Beast
creates 4/4 Beast tokens with every land play
Zendikar's Roil
{3}{G}{G}Enchantment
creates 2/2 Elemental tokens for each land played
Titania, Protector of Argoth
{3}{G}{G}Legendary Creature — Elemental
creates 5/3 Elementals whenever lands hit the graveyard
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
{4}{G}{G}Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar
massive threat scaling directly with lands on field and in yard
Ulvenwald Hydra
{4}{G}{G}Creature — Hydra
gets huge per land and tutors any utility land on ETB
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
{3}{G}{G}Legendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer
scales power with lands and creates Badger tokens on landfall
World Shaper
{3}{G}Creature — Merfolk Shaman
mills on attack and returns all lands from graveyard on death
Overwhelming Stampede
{3}{G}{G}Sorcery
overrun finisher scaling with highest power creature
Sylvan Awakening
{2}{G}Sorcery
turns all lands into indestructible 2/2 elemental creatures for a win
End-Raze Forerunners
{5}{G}{G}{G}Creature — Boar
budget Craterhoof alternative providing trampling pump
Ancient Greenwarden
{4}{G}{G}Creature — Elemental
doubles all landfall triggers and allows playing lands from graveyard
Blossoming Tortoise
{2}{G}{G}Creature — Turtle
mills lands into yard, ramps on attack, and reduces land activation costs
Oran-Rief Hydra
{4}{G}{G}Creature — Hydra
grows rapidly with dual +1/+1 counters on forest landfall
Liege of the Tangle
{6}{G}{G}Creature — Elemental
turns lands into 8/8 creatures upon dealing combat damage
Awaken the Woods
{X}{G}{G}Sorcery
creates X dryad land tokens triggering landfall exponentially
Centaur Vinecrasher
{3}{G}Creature — Plant Centaur
grows based on lands in graveyards and recurs itself when lands hit yard
Primeval Bounty
{5}{G}Enchantment
triggers life gain on land, tokens on creatures, counters on noncreatures
Roaring Earth
{1}{G}Enchantment
puts counters on landfall and animates a land into a huge creature
Khalni Heart Expedition
{1}{G}Enchantment
stores quest counters on landfall to burst out two lands at once
Dragon Throne of Tarkir
{4}Legendary Artifact — Equipment
turns huge stat commanders or creatures into team-wide pump engines
Utility
10 cards
Ramunap Excavator
{2}{G}Creature — Snake Cleric
plays lands directly out of the graveyard
Conduit of Worlds
{2}{G}{G}Artifact
plays lands from graveyard and allows casting spells from yard
Perennial Behemoth
{5}Artifact Creature — Beast
artifact creature land recursion from top of graveyard
Splendid Reclamation
{3}{G}Sorcery
returns all lands from graveyard to the battlefield tapped
Courser of Kruphix
{1}{G}{G}Enchantment Creature — Centaur
reveals top card, gains life on land plays, plays lands off top
Tireless Provisioner
{2}{G}Creature — Elf Scout
creates Treasure or Food tokens on every landfall trigger
Lotus Cobra
{1}{G}Creature — Snake
generates mana of any color on every land drop
Wayward Swordtooth
{2}{G}Creature — Dinosaur
grants additional land drops and becomes a 5/5 with city's blessing
Druid Class
{1}{G}Enchantment — Class
gains life on landfall, gives additional land drop, and animates lands
Evolution Sage
{2}{G}Creature — Elf Druid
proliferates +1/+1 counters across your board on every land drop
