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Restorative Burn- Phylath's Ode to Wildfire Ecology
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Big Bad Plant Daddy

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Phylath, World Sculptor

When Phylath enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each basic land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put four +1/+1 counters on target Plant you control.

Creature
Phylath, World Sculptor (znr) 234

Big Bad Plant Daddy

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Plant life

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Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (j22) 629
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {3}{G}{G}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Creature
Bristly Bill, Spine Sower (otj) 157
Cactusfolk Sureshot

Reach Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, other creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain trample and haste until end of turn.

Creature
Cactusfolk Sureshot (otj) 199
Cultivator Colossus

Trample Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Creature
Cultivator Colossus (vow) 195
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

+1: Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token. −2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. −7: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of lands you control.

Planeswalker
Nissa, Voice of Zendikar (plst) OGW-138
Rampant Rejuvenator

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is this creature's power, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rampant Rejuvenator (nec) 28
Rumbleweed

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each land card in your graveyard. Vigilance, reach, trample When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Rumbleweed (otc) 32
Topiary Stomper

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

Creature
Topiary Stomper (snc) 160
Vinelasher Kudzu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Vinelasher Kudzu (ddm) 50

Plant life

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The surrounding ecosystem

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Fog

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Fog (btd) 55
Kodama of the West Tree

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 392
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 193
Nissa, Vital Force

+1: Untap target land you control. Until your next turn, it becomes a 5/5 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land. −3: Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card."

Planeswalker
Nissa, Vital Force (kld) 163
Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Regrowth (3ed) 214
Rootpath Purifier

Lands you control and land cards in your library are basic.

Creature
Rootpath Purifier (brc) 24
Six

Reach Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Six (mh3) 169
Wrap in Vigor

Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Wrap in Vigor (cns) 183

The surrounding ecosystem

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Burn it down

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Cleansing Wildfire

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Cleansing Wildfire (znr) 137
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (2xm) 349
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (inv) 189
Nahiri's Lithoforming

Sacrifice X lands. For each land sacrificed this way, draw a card. You may play X additional lands this turn. Lands you control enter tapped this turn.

Sorcery
Nahiri's Lithoforming (znr) 151
Orcish Lumberjack

{T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}.

Creature
Orcish Lumberjack (plst) DDL-44
Roiling Regrowth

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Roiling Regrowth (znr) 390
Scapeshift

Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Scapeshift (spg) 34
Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Springbloom Druid (khc) 74
Sylvan Safekeeper

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Sylvan Safekeeper (cma) 152

Burn it down

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Regrowth

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Ancient Greenwarden

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) You may play lands from your graveyard. If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Ancient Greenwarden (znr) 178
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (pwor) 2019
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 350
Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Creature
Ramunap Excavator (phou) 129s
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Wrenn and Six

+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. −1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target. −7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Six (2x2) 296

Regrowth

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Card draw & selection

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Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Abundance (cmm) 884
Cathartic Pyre

Choose one — • Cathartic Pyre deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. • Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.

Instant
Cathartic Pyre (mid) 133
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Escape to the Wilds

Exile the top five cards of your library. You may play cards exiled this way until the end of your next turn. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Escape to the Wilds (otc) 223
Explore

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

Sorcery
Explore (dmc) 131
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (plst) C20-173
Seed of Hope

Mill two cards. You may put a permanent card from among the milled cards into your hand. You gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Seed of Hope (mom) 204
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (blc) 237
Sprouting Goblin

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, search your library for a land card with a basic land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.

Creature
Sprouting Goblin (dmu) 145
Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Tireless Tracker (moc) 314
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 211
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174
Valakut Exploration

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 303

Card draw & selection

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Removal

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (ltc) 211
Bushwhack

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Bushwhack (bro) 174
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (pw24) 7
Ground Assault

Ground Assault deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Sorcery
Ground Assault (2x2) 223
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (afc) 169
Stump Stomp

Sorcery
Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259
Worldsoul's Rage

Worldsoul's Rage deals X damage to any target. Put up to X land cards from your hand and/or graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Worldsoul's Rage (mkm) 244

Removal

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (cmm) 419
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (cmm) 991
Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Cryptic Caves (khc) 109
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (ltc) 306
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Fire-Lit Thicket

{T}: Add {C}. {R/G}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Fire-Lit Thicket (exp) 29
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (cmm) 451
Grove of the Burnwillows

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Each opponent gains 1 life.

Land
Grove of the Burnwillows (ima) 238
Gruul Turf

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Gruul Turf (2x2) 325
Khalni Garden

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token. {T}: Add {G}.

Land
Khalni Garden (c18) 262
Mossfire Valley

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Mossfire Valley (clb) 901
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 448
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 (onc) 159
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.

Land
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood (nec) 173
Rockfall Vale

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
Rootbound Crag

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (m13) 228
Skarrg, the Rage Pits

{T}: Add {C}. {R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Skarrg, the Rage Pits (plst) PCA-127
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (rvr) 413
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 441

Land

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Sowing seeds

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Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
Burgeoning

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Burgeoning (plst) STH-102
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 339
Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Explosive Vegetation (dtk) 186
Mina and Denn, Wildborn

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {R}{G}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Mina and Denn, Wildborn (plst) OGW-156
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (p02) 135
Nissa, Vastwood Seer

Creature
Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist (plst) ORI-189Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist (plst) ORI-189
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (cmm) 908

Sowing seeds

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Maybeboard

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Abundant Harvest

Choose land or nonland. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Abundant Harvest (cmm) 269
Magmatic Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a land card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Magmatic Insight (otc) 173
Storm the Seedcore

Distribute four +1/+1 counters among up to four target creatures you control. Creatures you control gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Sorcery
Storm the Seedcore (mom) 206

Maybeboard

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Essentially, what happens when a plant ecologist gets into Magic the Gathering. Phylath is our big bad elemental daddy, here to make all of our plants grow real big. But this ecosystem, like many in our real world, relies on regular wildfires to keep it functioning in a healthy manner. So a main part of the game plan is sacking lands for value, or even more lands. Don't worry about lands in the graveyard- they may look dead and gone, but as you'll see, they bounce back surprisingly quickly.\n\nI have purposely left out several staple landfall cards, while keeping weaker alternatives, to keep the deck highly on theme (for example: Scute Swarm is highly reminiscent of the spread of an invasive insect population rather than anything particullarly healthy for an ecosystem; besides, its not the powerr level I'm looking to play at). Cards with plants, land sacrifice, and fire motifs are prioritized. Whenever possible, I go with the more flavorful art for a card (looking at you, Blasphemous Act). My personal rule of thumb regarding strong, expensive cards in more flavor-driven decks is to only include them if they have direct synergy with my strategy and also stick to the overall theme. Hence, Life from the Loam (the life of a fire-germinated seed bank growing from loamy soil) and Wrenn and Six (a dryad with a forest fire in her chest, I mean, c'mon, how do you get more flavorful than that).\n"}]}
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