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<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun" href="#" target="_blank">Inti, Seneschal of the Sun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://victoradameart.com/">Victor Adame Minguez</a>)</h6>
<h1>Technically Playable - <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun" href="#" target="_blank">Inti, Seneschal of the Sun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h1>
<p>Welcome to <em>Technically Playable</em>, where our mission statement is "Every commander is <em>Technically</em> playable" (the best kind of playable). The way this works is every article will have a commander generated using EDHREC's random button, I'll talk through the card and then write about how we can build around it!</p>
<p>This week's random commander is <div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun"></div></div></p>
<p>The EDHREC random button has blessed me this week with a card that I constantly lose to. This card has all of the features of Magic that I enjoy. Card advantage, an angle that allows you to interact with your graveyard and of course, trample.</p>
<h2>Trampling over the competition</h2>
<p>I absolutely love the trample keyword. My <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Xenagos, God of Revels" href="#" target="_blank">Xenagos, God of Revels</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck is almost completely built around it and being able to force unfavourable blocks and prevent those little annoying 1/1s from completely wallking your huge 10/10 is always a good feeling.</p>
<p>Inti is in a good colour for trample to be very effective too. Red is second only to green in terms of giant scary monsters and none are bigger in Commander than <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Malignus" href="#" target="_blank">Malignus</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Effectively a 20/20 if any players are at full health, and it only gets bigger as players gain any life. It also has a sneaky line of text that stops any damage it deals from being prevented allowing it to get around any protection from either its colour or its card type (I'm thinking <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Serra&#039;s Emissary" href="#" target="_blank">Serra&#039;s Emissary</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> specifically here) and also having the upside of getting around any stray <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fog" href="#" target="_blank">Fog</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s.</p>
<p>Another beefy red beater is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inferno Titan" href="#" target="_blank">Inferno Titan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This is <em>always</em> the 101st card in my red decks and I always end up cutting it at the last moment in deck building. I then proceed to get beaten up by other people's <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inferno Titan" href="#" target="_blank">Inferno Titan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s all the time. My main issue with it is that while it has the ability to be a fantastic mana sink it does get blocked by just about anything in existence, but not anymore. By gaining trample from Inti <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inferno Titan" href="#" target="_blank">Inferno Titan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can directly damage any small creatures and either force incredibly awkward blocks that it will almost always come out on top of, or simply slam all of your mana into it to deal a huge amount of damage. This is definitely a deck where I'd never cut this card.</p>
<p>The other great thing about trample is that it gives you a way to pretty much guarantee combat damage effects getting through. Probably one of the most powerful of these is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Balefire Dragon" href="#" target="_blank">Balefire Dragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. By giving it trample and buffing it, Inti turns <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Balefire Dragon" href="#" target="_blank">Balefire Dragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> into a flying beater that also allows you to destroy whole boards. You could even add a cheeky little <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Repercussion" href="#" target="_blank">Repercussion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to your deck if you really want to blow someone up out of nowhere.</p>
<p>This idea extends to any other combat damage cards too. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dragon Mage" href="#" target="_blank">Dragon Mage</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a great way to trigger Inti while refueling your hand and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ancient Copper Dragon" href="#" target="_blank">Ancient Copper Dragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> gives you the mana you need for big explosive turns (especially now that we have lost our trusty goblin buddy, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dockside Extortionist" href="#" target="_blank">Dockside Extortionist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>).</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Inferno Titan"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Balefire Dragon"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Malignus"></div></div>
<h2>Which card? Discard</h2>
<p>You know, like this card... But <em>dis</em>card. No? Okay. The discard strategies in this deck can be broken down into what I feel are two really key elements. Providing card advantage through "Impulse draws" (named after <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Act on Impulse" href="#" target="_blank">Act on Impulse</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>) and the ability to interact with or gain advantage the cards that go to our graveyard to negate the negatives of having to discard them.</p>
<h3>Acting on Impulse</h3>
<p>Impulse draw is the most common form of card advantage for red decks and while card advantage is the core of this mechanic, there are a lot of other ways to interact with cards that you cast from from exile.</p>
<p>In terms of generic impulse draws there are a ton of amazing options but we want stuff that synergizes with Inti. In terms of triggering Inti through discard, there are a lot of the typical options like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Faithless Looting" href="#" target="_blank">Faithless Looting</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> for a low-cost cantrip, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thrill of Possibility" href="#" target="_blank">Thrill of Possibility</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> for an instant speed option, and of course <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Big Score" href="#" target="_blank">Big Score</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Unexpected Windfall" href="#" target="_blank">Unexpected Windfall</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> for the instant speed draw and discard with the upside of leaving behind some treasure. These are all great options because they are card selection at a great rate with the upside of triggering Inti for further card advantage. but this is Technically Playable, let's look at some other options.</p>
<p>Since grabbing a copy for my <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Daretti, Scrap Savant" href="#" target="_blank">Daretti, Scrap Savant</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck I've found <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Veronica, Dissident Scribe" href="#" target="_blank">Veronica, Dissident Scribe</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to be an amazing card advantage machine, allowing looting and also creating <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Junk" href="#" target="_blank">Junk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> when I discard. In Inti, this effectively doubles up your impulse draws but with some of them being able to be activated when it suits you best. Veronica also works really well with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Demand Answers" href="#" target="_blank">Demand Answers</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> by giving you the option to impulse draw or to sacrifice it to discard and draw.</p>
<p>There is a second <em>Fallout</em> card that works well in this deck too, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thrill-Kill Disciple" href="#" target="_blank">Thrill-Kill Disciple</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. With the squad mechanic, this card allows you to discard your whole hand to impulse draw an equal number and also create a board of 3/2s that create further impulse draws (in the form of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Junk" href="#" target="_blank">Junk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>) when they die. In terms of refueling in the mid to late game, this is one of the best options for this deck as it allows you to turn any dead cards or extra land in your hand into gas.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Faithless Looting"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thrill-Kill Disciple"></div></div>
<p>There is also the option of turning your discards directly into playable cards. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Containment Construct" href="#" target="_blank">Containment Construct</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and [/el]Conspiracy Theorist[/el] do this by giving you the option of exiling cards that you discard, with the caveat that you can play them this turn or lose them forever. Using this to discard mana rocks that you can then play and use again is a great way to effectively go even on cards you discard. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Conspiracy Theorist" href="#" target="_blank">Conspiracy Theorist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> even gives you additional value by giving you an option to draw and discard on the attack, effectively fueling itself. If I had to choose just the one to play it would be the Theorist for sure (opting into the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Containment Construct" href="#" target="_blank">Containment Construct</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> if my deck had artifact synergy).</p>
<p>But if all we're doing is exiling more cards to exile more cards we're not really getting anywhere, so we need some ways to win. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Keeper of Secrets" href="#" target="_blank">Keeper of Secrets</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Passionate Archaeologist" href="#" target="_blank">Passionate Archaeologist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, both <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Prosper, Tome-Bound" href="#" target="_blank">Prosper, Tome-Bound</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> staples, give a great way to dodge any boards that people have built up and deal damage directly to our opponents. This reach means we can close out games very quickly when chaining our impulse draws together.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Flaming Tyrannosaurus" href="#" target="_blank">Flaming Tyrannosaurus</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> on the other hand is a little more tricky. While it still has a small amount of direct damage the real payoff here is creating a huge beater and giving it trample with Inti's ability. Once you've cast enough spells from outside of your hand and kept the board clear you can then potentially threaten lethal if anyone plays a board wipe or removes it outside of exile-based removal.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Conspiracy Theorist"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Keeper of Secrets"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Flaming Tyrannosaurus"></div></div>
<h3>Together, in Perfect Harmony</h3>
<p>But this deck isn't <em>just</em> discarded, and it's not <em>just</em> impulse draw. The key is to use both in the deck in combination to create a synergy <strong>machine</strong>. In terms of discarding cards, you want to make sure you have not just enough ways to get the cards into your graveyard but also synergy. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Glint-Horn Buccaneer" href="#" target="_blank">Glint-Horn Buccaneer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Brallin, Skyshark Rider" href="#" target="_blank">Brallin, Skyshark Rider</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> are amazing ways to close out games through discard while <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Surly Badgersaur" href="#" target="_blank">Surly Badgersaur</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> gives you the resources and strategies to not only accelerate your gameplan but also gives you board-based removal by allowing you to fight. If you can leverage some instant speed removal with these effects you can clutch surprise wins out of nowhere.</p>
<p>And when it comes to casting cards from exile you don't just have the options above, you also have <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Memory Worm" href="#" target="_blank">Memory Worm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, effectively a red <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Phyrexian Arena" href="#" target="_blank">Phyrexian Arena</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> that with Inti in play draws you two cards, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Party Thrasher" href="#" target="_blank">Party Thrasher</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> allowing you to use red's love of small creatures and tokens to turbo out as many spells as you can from exile while fueling itself.</p>
<p>You can also gain some extra free spells with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wild-Magic Sorcerer" href="#" target="_blank">Wild-Magic Sorcerer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nalfeshnee" href="#" target="_blank">Nalfeshnee</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> either cascading into more spells or getting copies giving you double value from your spells, and with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nalfeshnee" href="#" target="_blank">Nalfeshnee</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, breaking the singleton rule.</p>
<p>And of course, you can't forget what started this article. By allowing you to buff your creatures, Inti even works really well with some of the more aggressive creatures that fit into these archetypes like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rose, Cutthroat Raider" href="#" target="_blank">Rose, Cutthroat Raider</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Professional Face-Breaker" href="#" target="_blank">Professional Face-Breaker</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> allowing you to play mono-red as it was intended. Playing creatures and turning them sideways.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Surly Badgersaur"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Memory Worm"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rose, Cutthroat Raider"></div></div>
<p>As with all <em>Technically Playable</em> articles, this was a very quick look at <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun" href="#" target="_blank">Inti, Seneschal of the Sun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as a commander, and a few of the cards that can really make a deck with Inti as the commander tick. Let me know in the comments below if you play <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun" href="#" target="_blank">Inti, Seneschal of the Sun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, if you want to build a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Inti, Seneschal of the Sun" href="#" target="_blank">Inti, Seneschal of the Sun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck, or even if you just enjoyed this article!</p>
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Technically Playable - Inti, Seneschal of the Sun

<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<a href="https://scryfall.com/card/j25/54/shroofus-sproutsire">Shroofus Sproutsire</a> | Art by <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CYukihiro+Maruo%E2%80%9D&amp;unique=art">Yukihiro Maruo</a>)</h6>
<h1>Just a Fun Little Guy</h1>
<p>People have told me that I am a fun guy. Luckily, no one has ever told me I am a fungi. The same cannot be said for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shroofus Sproutsire" href="#" target="_blank">Shroofus Sproutsire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Few things in magic take a player back to the old days as much as making a Saproling token. I aim to make many of these little guys, and I am using a crop of cards that some players know all too well and others will be seeing for the first time.</p>
<p>It is fitting that Shroofus Sproutsire comes from <em>Foundations Jumpstart</em> because we are returning to the format's foundations with this one. I am Nick, and I hope you will join me as I Tech this Deck.</p>
<h2>There is a Fungus Among Us</h2>
<p>Two creature types in the game are forever joined at the hip; <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&amp;order=name&amp;q=type%3Afungus+%28game%3Apaper%29+is%3Apaperart">Fungus</a> and Saproling. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plenty of Fungus creatures</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, even six, have become legendary</span>. But it wasn't until Shroofus that we got the first legendary creature - Saproling. So why is this a big deal? Because Shroofus is just a little guy, and it would not be very nice if you were mean to him. I joke, but this is a very cool commander with many synergies with cards seen across the many years the game has been around. So, let's go deep into the forest and find some fungi.</p>
<h3>Mushroom Monsters</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thallid|FEM|74d"></div></div>
<p>It's the most classic of the monsters in our list and the one that explains the core of what our creatures are all about. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thallid" href="#" target="_blank">Thallid</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can remove spore counters to make Saproling tokens. It's a simple effect, but without help, it will take three turns after casting before you can get a single 1/1 creature. While this effect isn't fast, it's frequent across many other Fungi.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Utopia Mycon"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Savage Thallid"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Psychotrope Thallid"></div></div>
<p>Four more Fungus monsters, all with the same ability to get spore counters. But each one brings its twist to the same recipe. Utopia Mycon is not only the lone creature not having Thallid in its name of the above four, but it also can cash in your tokens for mana. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Savage Thallid" href="#" target="_blank">Savage Thallid</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> brings a double dose of older themes with Regenerate, a keyword that card designers have moved away from as years gone by.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Psychotrope Thallid" href="#" target="_blank">Psychotrope Thallid</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> might be one of the best of the bunch outside of the Mycon. If we are not making mana, the next best thing to do is draw cards, and this Thallid knows a thing or two about drawing cards. Finally, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vitaspore Thallid" href="#" target="_blank">Vitaspore Thallid</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can allow us to send in our commander immediately or use some of our other nonfungus creatures in this deck when they hit the board.</p>
<p>But all of these cards have the same problem: they're slow. Even if all the other players let me put these four creatures on the board on turn one, they still would not look great when I got around to my fourth turn. The best scenario is I now have four additional 1/1 creatures, and I can parlay that into mana or card draw. The worst case is right before I get enough counters, someone casts a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wrath of God" href="#" target="_blank">Wrath of God</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and I am out of the game. So what do we do to go faster?</p>
<h2>We Evolve</h2>
<p>Join me in the glorious evolution of this deck featuring a green all-star for any strategy that requires someone to carry a dice bag with them, <div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Evolution Sage"></div></div>. Proliferation is one of the best ways to send our Saproling generation into overdrive. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Evolution Sage" href="#" target="_blank">Evolution Sage</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the best cards for helping us out since all it requires is to make our land drops. We also have a few extra pieces of proliferation to pair up with the sage.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Cankerbloom"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Karn&#039;s Bastion"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Staff of Compleation"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cankerbloom" href="#" target="_blank">Cankerbloom</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a Swiss army knife creature offering us proliferation, artifact removal, and enchantment removal on a cheap body with great stats. I have undervalued this card for a long time, but I am glad that I got to see just how good they could be before putting this deck together.</p>
<p>Karn's Bastion gives us a repeatable proliferation effect on a land, so playing it with Evolution Sage on the battlefield should make you chuckle at the table. While <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Staff of Compleation" href="#" target="_blank">Staff of Compleation</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> does cost three life every time we want to use it, getting the one last counter we need could make all the difference. Believe it or not, we have a few other ways to use this proliferation in our deck besides strictly adding spore counters.</p>
<h3>Proliferating the Proliferation</h3>
<p>Proliferation would have been much different if it specified what counters you could add. Luckily for us and many other players, it does not. So, what are we proliferating outside of spore counters and +1/+1 counters?</p>
<p>How about Fading? <div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Saproling Burst"></div></div> gives us a choice between a single 7/7 token that slowly shrinks until it is no more or a surprise of seven 1/1 tokens that will only be around for a single turn. But what if we could add more counters? Not only could we get multiple tokens that could be larger than a 1/1, but we could also increase the number of 1/1s that we can make.</p>
<p>Maybe you need to close out the game and do not have many turns left. If you have a few counters on your <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Beastmaster Ascension" href="#" target="_blank">Beastmaster Ascension</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> but not enough creatures to get the magic number of seven, proliferation can help you close out the game.</p>
<p>Similarly, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Door of Destinies" href="#" target="_blank">Door of Destinies</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can get more and more and MORE counters growing our mushroom army. But the heart of this deck is and always will be the Saproling tokens, so let me show you what we've got.</p>
<h2>Saproling Synergies</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Brightcap Badger"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thelonite Hermit"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Verdant Force"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sprout Swarm"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Brightcap Badger" href="#" target="_blank">Brightcap Badger</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of my favorite cards in the deck because it does everything. Makes Saproling creatures for us at instant speed and every end step. As well as turning all of our Saprolings and Fungi into mana dorks. Saddly, as a Badger Druid, it will not gain any synergies from our next card, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thelonite Hermit" href="#" target="_blank">Thelonite Hermit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>While <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thelonite Hermit" href="#" target="_blank">Thelonite Hermit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> does have an expensive Morph cost at 3<span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-g" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-g" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> after playing it face down, the payoff is worth the steep investment. Four 1/1 tokens that get buffed up will do just as well, if not better, than most of the cards in our deck at closing out a game or keeping us alive.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Verdant Force" href="#" target="_blank">Verdant Force</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is objectively past their prime. But I would be forced to turn in my deck building license if I did not include it in the list. We are in mono green, so there is a reasonable chance we can cast this large lad ahead of the curve, even with the heavy mana requirement. If we can't, we also run <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tendershoot Dryad" href="#" target="_blank">Tendershoot Dryad</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> so that we can win the game.</p>
<p>A few cards in this deck will elicit a groan from others at the table, but one, in particular, has the possibility of sending someone into a breakdown.</p>
<p><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sprout Swarm"></div></div>.</p>
<p>If you ever find a player who was around when this card first came out, be careful when mentioning <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sprout Swarm" href="#" target="_blank">Sprout Swarm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. With the mix of Convoke and Buyback <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-3" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>, the swarm will eventually give someone an unending swarm of Saprolings. This card can only be described as a mistake that should never have seen the light of day. But luckily for us, we got to pair it up with our happy little mushroom man. Sometimes, saddly, Saprolings beating down your opponents is not enough to win the game. So, the last part of our deck is where all the spice lives.</p>
<h2>Spicy Mushrooms</h2>
<p>Every good deck needs a plan B. Since our deck combines Fungus and Saproling typal, we start the game around plan C. Never fear because alternate win conditions are here.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Triumph of the Hordes"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Strixhaven Stadium"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Epic Struggle"></div></div>
<p>While it might be cheating to consider <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Triumph of the Hordes" href="#" target="_blank">Triumph of the Hordes</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Strixhaven Stadium" href="#" target="_blank">Strixhaven Stadium</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> as alternative ways to win the game, giving all of our creatures trample and infect drastically changes the math during the combat step. One moment, all of your opponents think they are safe with a few creatures to block; the next, they are shuffling up for game two. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Strixhaven Stadium" href="#" target="_blank">Strixhaven Stadium</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a risky card for most decks. Ideally, we should have less incurred risk since we should have enough creatures to stop getting counters removed from the stadium, and we can pair it with proliferation to up the counters as close to ten as possible.</p>
<p>There is no way that <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Epic Struggle" href="#" target="_blank">Epic Struggle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can be considered anything but an alternative to winning the game. The biggest downside to this card, and the reason most people have never seen it on a battlefield, is that it will become the immediate target no matter what. Someone will try to remove it, your creatures, or you from the game before losing to this card. But if you can pull off the win, it becomes a card where the name perfectly fits the feeling coursing through your body.</p>
<h2>Wrap Up</h2>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shroofus Sproutsire" href="#" target="_blank">Shroofus Sproutsire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a card I expect to show up at a surprising amount of tables. It's a bit of a perfect storm for a commander deck. The art of this card is adorable, and while no one would ever say this card is broken, it can be made to be powerful. This deck hits the perfect middle on the Venn diagram of a new player getting into the format and a long-time player trying to recapture the feelings when they first found themselves tapping lands and slinging spells.</p>
<p>If you want to see more content around the new cards from <em>Foundations</em> or <em>Foundations Jumpstart,</em> check out the other deck techs I did or any other fantastic articles on both EDHREC and Commander's Herald. Once again, I'm Nick, and I will see you the next time we Tech the Deck.</p>
<h2>Deck List</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Fun Guy - Shroofus Sproutsire Deck Tech" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Shroofus Sproutsire
[/Commander]
[Artifacts]
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Commander&#039;s Plate
*1 Door of Destinies
*1 Idol of Oblivion
*1 Patchwork Banner
*1 Skullclamp
*1 Sol Ring
*1 Staff of Compleation
*1 Strixhaven Stadium
[/Artifacts]
[Enchantments]
*1 Asceticism
*1 Beastmaster Ascension
*1 Doubling Season
*1 Elven Chorus
*1 Epic Struggle
*1 Night Soil
*1 Parallel Lives
*1 Saproling Burst
*1 Song of the Dryads
*1 Sporogenesis
*1 Tribute to the World Tree
[/Enchantments]
[Creatures]
*1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
*1 Cankerbloom
*1 Champion of Lambholt
*1 Circle of Dreams Druid
*1 Craterhoof Behemoth
*1 Elvish Farmer
*1 Evolution Sage
*1 Insidious Fungus
*1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
*1 Mycoloth
*1 Nemata, Grove Guardian
*1 Ohran Frostfang
*1 Psychotrope Thallid
*1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
*1 Ruxa, Patient Professor
*1 Saryth, the Viper&#039;s Fang
*1 Savage Thallid
*1 Sporecrown Thallid
*1 Sporemound
*1 Sporesower Thallid
*1 Tendershoot Dryad
*1 Thallid
*1 Thelonite Hermit
*1 Thunderfoot Baloth
*1 Undercellar Myconid
*1 Utopia Mycon
*1 Verdant Force
*1 Vigor
*1 Vitaspore Thallid
[/Creatures]
[Sorceries]
*1 Collective Unconscious
*1 For the Common Good
*1 Fungal Sprouting
*1 Harvest Season
*1 Nature&#039;s Lore
*1 Overrun
*1 Pest Infestation
*1 Rampant Growth
*1 Triumph of the Hordes
[/Sorceries]
[Instants]
*1 Fungal Rebirth
*1 Heroic Intervention
*1 Return of the Wildspeaker
*1 Second Harvest
*1 Sprout Swarm
*1 Wrap in Vigor
[/Instants]
[Lands]
*1 Boseiju, Who Endures
*26 Forest
*1 Fountainport
*1 Karn&#039;s Bastion
*1 Mosswort Bridge
*1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
*1 Rogue&#039;s Passage
*1 Three Tree City
*1 Tranquil Thicket
*1 War Room
[/Lands]"></span></div>


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