<h6 style="text-align: right;">(Radagast the Brown | Art by <a href="https://www.artstation.com/mokhman">Alexander Mokhov</a>)</h6>
<h1>We've all heard of White Weenies, but what about Green Weenies...?</h1>
<p>Hey there, my name is Jordan, and I run the<em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaHYyBX_RTuM-HtvI_qsoA"> EDH Jank Center</a> </em>on YouTube. Welcome to <i>Finding Homes For Janky Cards</i>, the series where we rifle through that big pile of bulk you've got lying around, find a package of five janky, budget, or underutilized cards, and pair them with a commander that will help them shine. The deck we get out of it might not be the fanciest or most extravagant at the table, but we're still going to build it, because <b>every</b> card deserves a loving home!</p>
<p>Today's warm and fuzzy host is: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Radagast the Brown" href="#" target="_blank">Radagast the Brown</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Radagast the Brown"></div></div>
<p>When <em>The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth</em> was announced last year, my first thought was "I don't care what it is, I am going to build a Radagast deck." Now here we are, and it's better than I could've imagined. Not only is the art incredible, but Radagast's creature-looting ability is so much fun and reminds me a lot of one of my other personal favorite builds: my <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Volo, Itinerant Scholar" href="#" target="_blank">Volo, Itinerant Scholar</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Popular Entertainer" href="#" target="_blank">Popular Entertainer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck!</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Volo, Itinerant Scholar"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Popular Entertainer"></div></div>
<p>As a lover of all things underwhelming and janky, builds centered around mashing a bunch of creatures with different/obscure types in a deck are my bread and butter, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Radagast the Brown" href="#" target="_blank">Radagast</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is no different. I'm super excited to talk about this build, but first let's take a look at what people have been usually building this commander with:</p>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Radagast Average Decklist" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Radagast the Brown
[/Commander]
[Creatures]
*1 Acidic Slime
*1 Apex Devastator
*1 Arasta of the Endless Web
*1 Bane of Progress
*1 Beast Whisperer
*1 Birds of Paradise
*1 Bramble Sovereign
*1 Cemetery Prowler
*1 Courser of Kruphix
*1 Crashing Drawbridge
*1 Craterhoof Behemoth
*1 Defiler of Vigor
*1 Delighted Halfling
*1 End-Raze Forerunners
*1 Eternal Witness
*1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
*1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
*1 Haywire Mite
*1 Ilysian Caryatid
*1 Kodama of the East Tree
*1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
*1 Loyal Guardian
*1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
*1 Old Gnawbone
*1 Old One Eye
*1 Pathbreaker Ibex
*1 Primordial Sage
*1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
*1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
*1 Scavenging Ooze
*1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
*1 Silverback Elder
*1 Soul of the Harvest
*1 Surrak and Goreclaw
*1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
*1 Temur Sabertooth
*1 Terastodon
*1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
*1 Vizier of the Menagerie
*1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus
[/Creatures]
[Instants]
*1 Beast Within
*1 Entish Restoration
*1 Heroic Intervention
*1 Return of the Wildspeaker
[/Instants]
[Sorceries]
*1 Cultivate
*1 Kodama&#039;s Reach
*1 Last March of the Ents
*1 Nature&#039;s Lore
*1 Overwhelming Stampede
*1 Rampant Growth
*1 Three Visits
[/Sorceries]
[Artifacts]
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Lifecrafter&#039;s Bestiary
*1 Panharmonicon
*1 Rhonas&#039;s Monument
*1 Sol Ring
*1 The Great Henge
[/Artifacts]
[Enchantments]
*1 Elven Chorus
*1 Garruk&#039;s Uprising
*1 Guardian Project
*1 Sylvan Anthem
*1 Tribute to the World Tree
*1 Unnatural Growth
[/Enchantments]
[Planeswalkers]
*1 Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
[/Planeswalkers]
[Lands]
*1 Boseiju, Who Endures
*1 Castle Garenbrig
*29 Forest
*1 Mosswort Bridge
*1 Myriad Landscape
*1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
*1 Reliquary Tower
[/Lands]"></span></div>


<p>So, as we can see, people are gravitating towards playing a bunch of <strong><em>Chonky Boiz </em></strong>like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Apex Devastator" href="#" target="_blank">Apex Devastator</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Craterhoof Behemoth" href="#" target="_blank">Craterhoof Behemoth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Apex Devastator"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Craterhoof Behemoth"></div></div>
<p>Now, not only are these creatures just generally amazing, but their high mana costs ensure that we're able to loot through as much of the top of our deck as possible and find some more juicy (and probably expensive) cards.</p>
<p>However, I say<strong> Nay</strong> to that.</p>
<p>Today, we're going to be playing a bunch of small creatures, Green Weenies, if you will... and getting lots of fun synergy and payoffs from casting multiple small creatures per turn! <em>And</em> we're going to be doing all of this for under $50!</p>
<p>Let's not dilly dally any longer, because I want to talk about the staple card of this build...</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Almighty Brushwagg" href="#" target="_blank">Almighty Brushwagg</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></span></p>
<p>0% of 1264921 decks</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Almighty Brushwagg"></div></div>
<p>He's just a little guy! So cute.</p>
<p>Anyway, this card and others like it (meaning 1 and 2 drops with fun abilities and unique creature types) are the staples of this build.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Arcbound Slith"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Deepwood Wolverine"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Brown Ouphe"></div></div>
<p>Their small mana costs can be considered a drawback since we're not going to get to loot through 10 cards at once, however, since this deck is chock full of creatures, we're almost always going to hit something! Since this strategy relies on having and casting a ton of creatures, these tiny guys turn <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Radagast the Brown" href="#" target="_blank">Radagast the Brown</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ability into pseudo card draw!</p>
<p>This will help us cast more creatures, build a larger board, and eventually swing out for a win! And listen, a lot of these weenies have awesome, utilitarian abilities: from trample to deathtouch to countering activated abilities, so we're going to be set for a ton of different game scenarios.</p>
<p>Now let's take a look at some cards that support this janky concoction:</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Paragon of Eternal Wilds" href="#" target="_blank">Paragon of Eternal Wilds</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></span></p>
<p>0% of 1264921 decks</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Paragon of Eternal Wilds"></div></div>
<p>The idea here is pretty simple: our way of winning in this deck is through combat damage. Our tiny creatures unfortunately don't have a lot of hitting power on their own, but never fear, because <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Radagast the Brown" href="#" target="_blank">Radagast</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is all about friends helping out friends.</p>
<p>In comes this green anthem effect that pumps up our entire board (save for the few artifact creatures in this list) and can also enable trample for a single creature if the game scenario calls for that.</p>
<p>You might be scoffing at the very idea of throwing all of this chaff in here, but hey, you know what playing chaff lets us do? Have leftover money to include even more powerful cards that do a similar thing like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Unnatural Growth" href="#" target="_blank">Unnatural Growth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sylvan Anthem" href="#" target="_blank">Sylvan Anthem</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Unnatural Growth"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sylvan Anthem"></div></div>
<p>Moving on to...</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Bellowing Tanglewurm" href="#" target="_blank">Bellowing Tanglewurm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></span></p>
<p>1% of 1264921 decks</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Bellowing Tanglewurm"></div></div>
<p>Not only is this artwork absolutely incredible, but this card is what we like to call a <strong>FINISHER,</strong> folks.</p>
<p>In a deck that wants to win through combat, giving all of our creatures evasion of any kind is going to be an absolute boon for us.</p>
<p>Additionally, it'll allow us to loot through 5 cards from the top of our deck! All that value for less than 50 cents? I'll take that any day!</p>
<p>Let's move on to something a liiiiiiitle more unassuming though, shall we...</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Roaring Primadox" href="#" target="_blank">Roaring Primadox</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></span></p>
<p>0% of 1264921 decks</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Roaring Primadox"></div></div>
<p>This has been one of my pet cards for a while now. I used to run it in a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald" href="#" target="_blank">Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck that has since been taken apart, but I'm so ecstatic to have found what is - in my opinion - an even better home for it!</p>
<p>I'd say in a good number of minds this card is slow, inefficient, and "unplayable", but as we know <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Radagast the Brown" href="#" target="_blank">Radagast</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> loves ALL creatures and so... voila!</p>
<p>Getting one of our tiny creatures back to our hand every single upkeep is really good for our deck, especially for cards that love when we recast things:</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Primeval Bounty"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Forgotten Ancient"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig"></div></div>
<p>Before we know it, we'll have a giant board of beaters that we can smash face with, and that's some good ol' fashioned <i>Magic </i>right there!</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Garruk&#039;s Horde" href="#" target="_blank">Garruk&#039;s Horde</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></span></p>
<p>1% of 1,264,921 decks</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Garruk&#039;s Horde"></div></div>
<p>It's the Walmart version of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Augur of Autumn" href="#" target="_blank">Augur of Autumn</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>!</p>
<p>Jokes aside, I love this card for this strategy, when it enters we get to look through 7 card from the top of our library, THEN we get to play with our top card revealed and cast stuff from there if we can!</p>
<p>This card essentially gives us an additional creature to cast every turn! And it gets really tasty when we combine it with a card like the aforementioned <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald" href="#" target="_blank">Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald"></div></div>
<p>Pretty sweet being able to get our commander's triggers going on our opponent's turns, eh?</p>
<p>Now that we've highlighted some favorite cards from the build, let's take a look at the full decklist:</p>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Radagast and the Green Weenies (my favorite band)" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Radagast the Brown
[/Commander]
[Creatures]
*1 Aberrant
*1 Almighty Brushwagg
*1 Arcbound Slith
*1 Beast Whisperer
*1 Bellowing Tanglewurm
*1 Blorbian Buddy
*1 Brown Ouphe
*1 Champion of Lambholt
*1 Charging Badger
*1 Crashing Drawbridge
*1 Deepwood Wolverine
*1 Defiler of Vigor
*1 Eternal Witness
*1 Fang of Shigeki
*1 Forgotten Ancient
*1 Garruk&#039;s Horde
*1 Gingerbrute
*1 Green Slime
*1 Jukai Messenger
*1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
*1 Loam Dryad
*1 Managorger Hydra
*1 Moss Viper
*1 Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
*1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
*1 Permeating Mass
*1 Prosperous Innkeeper
*1 Quirion Beastcaller
*1 Roaring Primadox
*1 Scute Mob
*1 Slippery Bogbonder
*1 Spectrum Sentinel
*1 Spore Frog
*1 Swarm Shambler
*1 Thorn Mammoth
*1 Thornweald Archer
*1 Thundering Mightmare
*1 Tovolar&#039;s Huntmaster // Tovolar&#039;s Packleader
*1 Twin-Silk Spider
*1 Wildborn Preserver
*1 Yeva, Nature&#039;s Herald
*1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
[/Creatures]
[Artifacts]
*1 Lifecrafter&#039;s Bestiary
*1 Oketra&#039;s Monument
*1 Sol Ring
[/Artifacts]
[Enchantments]
*1 Glorious Sunrise
*1 Lignify
*1 Primeval Bounty
*1 Ranger Class
*1 Season of Growth
*1 Sylvan Anthem
*1 Unnatural Growth
[/Enchantments]
[Sorceries]
*1 Cultivate
*1 Klothys&#039;s Design
*1 Overrun
[/Sorceries]
[Instants]
*1 Emerald Charm
*1 Fog
*1 Once and Future
*1 Regenesis
*1 Tamiyo&#039;s Safekeeping
*1 Wilt
[/Instants]
[Lands]
*35 Forest
*1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
*1 Rogue&#039;s Passage
*1 Tyrite Sanctum
[/Lands]"></span></div>


<p>Extremely proud of this deck and very excited to build it for myself!</p>
<p>I hope you've enjoyed reading the article, and remember: Every card deserves a chance to shine.</p>
<p>That just about does it for this month's installment. Let me know in the comments down below what cards you'd like me to find a home for next! Your suggestions might just make it into the next article. Cheers!</p>


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