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Thriss, Bringing the Painflow
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Est deck cost: $205.88
Salt sum: 28.9
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Commander

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Thriss, Nantuko Primus

{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Creature
Thriss, Nantuko Primus (jud) 134

Commander

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Land

Qty: 36 (37 w/ MDFC)Price: $14.50
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (ody) 350
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (isd) 240
Hidden Nursery

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {4}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Nursery (lci) 276
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (khc) 115

Land

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Artifact

Qty: 3 Price: $9.97
Emerald Medallion

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Emerald Medallion (c14) 237
Quicksilver Amulet

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Quicksilver Amulet (e02) 44
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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Garruk, Primal Hunter

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. −6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Planeswalker
Garruk, Primal Hunter (c19) 167
Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}. +1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land. −8: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Who Shakes the World (war) 169

Planeswalker

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Creature

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Citanul Hierophants

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Citanul Hierophants (dsc) 81
Citanul Woodreaders

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, draw two cards.

Creature
Citanul Woodreaders (plc) 125
Civic Gardener

Whenever this creature attacks, untap target creature or land.

Creature
Civic Gardener (snc) 140
Copperhorn Scout

Whenever this creature attacks, untap each other creature you control.

Creature
Copperhorn Scout (cn2) 179
Druid of Purification

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.

Creature
Druid of Purification (afc) 39
Elder Druid

{3}{G}, {T}: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Creature
Elder Druid (6ed) 223
Elderscale Wurm

Trample When this creature enters, if your life total is less than 7, your life total becomes 7. As long as you have 7 or more life, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 7 reduces it to 7 instead.

Creature
Elderscale Wurm (m13) 167
Elvish Herder

{G}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Elvish Herder (usg) 247
Fangren Pathcutter

Whenever this creature attacks, attacking creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Fangren Pathcutter (5dn) 87
Great Oak Guardian

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.

Creature
Great Oak Guardian (c15) 37
Great Sable Stag

This spell can't be countered. Protection from blue and from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything blue or black.)

Creature
Great Sable Stag (m10) 186
Impervious Greatwurm

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Indestructible

Creature
Impervious Greatwurm (grn) 273
Kamahl, Fist of Krosa

{G}: Target land becomes a 1/1 creature until end of turn. It's still a land. {2}{G}{G}{G}: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Kamahl, Fist of Krosa (ons) 268
Kaysa

Green creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Kaysa (all) 96
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (10e) 274
Nantuko Mentor

{2}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Nantuko Mentor (ody) 255
Patron of the Orochi

Snake offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Snake and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Snake. Mana cost includes color.) {T}: Untap all Forests and all green creatures. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Patron of the Orochi (bok) 138
Plated Slagwurm

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Plated Slagwurm (mrd) 127
Quirion Ranger

Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Quirion Ranger (mh2) 285
Scryb Ranger

Flash Flying, protection from blue Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Scryb Ranger (tsp) 215
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (bbd) 212
Seeker of Skybreak

{T}: Untap target creature.

Creature
Seeker of Skybreak (brb) 68
Siege Behemoth

Hexproof As long as this creature is attacking, for each creature you control, you may have that creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Creature
Siege Behemoth (c14) 46
Spring-Leaf Avenger

Ninjutsu {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Spring-Leaf Avenger (neo) 481
Thorn Elemental

You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Creature
Thorn Elemental (8ed) 283
Thorn Mammoth

Trample Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Thorn Mammoth (eld) 323
Troll Ascetic

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Troll Ascetic (cmd) 176
Yeva, Nature's Herald

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Yeva, Nature's Herald (m13) 197

Creature

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Sorcery

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Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Collective Voyage

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches their library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Sorcery
Collective Voyage (c16) 145
Crush of Wurms

Create three 6/6 green Wurm creature tokens. Flashback {9}{G}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Crush of Wurms (jud) 110
Cultivate

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.

Sorcery
Cultivate (sta) 51
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (wwk) 99
Gaea's Will

Suspend 4—{G} Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Sorcery
Gaea's Will (mh2) 162
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (plc) 149
Hurricane

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Sorcery
Hurricane (7ed) 252
Mouth

Sorcery
Mouth // Feed (akh) 214
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (por) 178
Nissa's Pilgrimage

Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.

Sorcery
Nissa's Pilgrimage (f16) 1
Nylea's Intervention

Choose one — • Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

Sorcery
Nylea's Intervention (thb) 188
Pir's Whim

For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend searches their library for a land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles. Each foe sacrifices an artifact or enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery
Pir's Whim (plst) BBD-73
Primal Command

Choose two — • Target player gains 7 life. • Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library. • Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. • Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Primal Command (arc) 66
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (6ed) 246

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Instill Energy

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste. {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Instill Energy (4ed) 252
Leyline of Lifeforce

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Creature spells can't be countered.

Enchantment
Leyline of Lifeforce (gpt) 90
Lignify

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is a Treefolk with base power and toughness 0/4 and loses all abilities.

Enchantment Kindred
Lignify (lrw) 228
Nature's Chosen

Enchant creature you control {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn. Tap enchanted creature: Untap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only if enchanted creature is white and untapped and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Nature's Chosen (all) 97
Primal Order

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of nonbasic lands they control.

Enchantment
Primal Order (hml) 92
Vernal Bloom

Whenever a Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Vernal Bloom (7ed) 281

Enchantment

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Instant

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Bite Down

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Bite Down (dmu) 155
Curious Herd

Choose target opponent. You create X 3/3 green Beast creature tokens, where X is the number of artifacts that player controls.

Instant
Curious Herd (c20) 59
Emerald Charm

Choose one — • Untap target permanent. • Destroy target non-Aura enchantment. • Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Instant
Emerald Charm (vis) 106
Gift of the Viper

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Instant
Gift of the Viper (mh3) 156
Not of This World

Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control. This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.

Instant Kindred
Not of This World (roe) 8
Seedtime

Cast this spell only during your turn. Take an extra turn after this one if an opponent cast a blue spell this turn.

Instant
Seedtime (jud) 130
Squall Line

Squall Line deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Instant
Squall Line (tsp) 222
Tail Swipe

Choose target creature you control and target creature you don't control. If you cast this spell during your main phase, the creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Then those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Tail Swipe (dmu) 182
Vitalize

Untap all creatures you control.

Instant
Vitalize (6ed) 265

Instant

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Odds are, this is one the strangest decklists ever seen, helmed by a Commander nobody would think twice about. Yet, here we are, looking at Thriss, Nantuko Primus.\n\nMy first ever purchase was Painflow, a mono-Green deck from Judgement with an image of Thriss on the box. The image intrigued me, as I had no clue what the deck could possibly bring. Inside, I found Thriss and Crush of Wurms waiting for me as my first two rares. While going through a bargain bin a few years ago, I stumbled across a foil Thriss and snagged it for nostalgia's sake. As time has gone on, I've sought the challenge of trying to figure out what a Thriss deck looks like. There's a lot of interesting things going on with Thriss, some of which make it easy for people to choose to pass him up. There are larger and splashier commanders out there.\n\nWhile costing 7 mana, Thriss has the ability to pay a Green mana and tap to give a creature +5/+5. As someone who played a lot with the Painflow precon, I found myself typically using Thriss to push damage through, or to ensure I had a giant blocker I needed if I was on the side of getting hurt. As such, this deck wants to be able to ramp and then use Thriss to ensure we are maximizing damage, sometimes even untapping him a few times to get even more value out of his ability. Seeker of Skybreak, Scryb Ranger, Vitalize, and Patron of the Orochi all help in this endeavor. I would be remiss to not mention Seedborn Muse as well, the pinnacle of untapping.\n\nWith the possibility of pumping a creature +10/+10 (or more), I want to ensure that these can connect and deal damage. Thorn Elemental is another classic from my early days of Magic, completely negating chump blockers. Siege Behemoth provides this ability to all my creatures, Fangren Pathcutter gives all my attackers trample. Kamahl, Thriss's druidic acolyte has an Overrun ability built in - perhaps I can activate this a few times with some of the larger mana doublers?\n\nOther cards in the deck are to help with the fact that I'm mono-colored. Primal Order punishes those greedy multicolor manabases. Not of This World should generally be a free spell, as I expect anyone to target my large creatures to get a surprise with a free counterspell. There's other tricks I enjoy, like Leyline of Lifeforce preventing countermagic, Yeva giving all my creatures flash, and Seedtime letting me take an extra turn if the Blue player decides to drop a cantrip or try to mess with my board. Bonus points for including Seedtime, as it was mentioned in the original Painflow strategy insert!\n\n\n"}]}
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