<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Seton, Krosan Protector" href="#" target="_blank">Seton, Krosan Protector</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://www.gregstaples.com/">Greg Staples</a></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I heard that this week was going to be “<a href="https://commanderspellbook.com/">Commander Spellbook</a> Week” at EDHREC, I jumped at the chance to represent my favorite deck archetype. I cut my teeth on combo decks, from <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Enduring Ideal" href="#" target="_blank">Enduring Ideal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> in Extended to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mind&#039;s Desire" href="#" target="_blank">Mind&#039;s Desire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Storm, and even <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Jeskai Ascendancy" href="#" target="_blank">Jeskai Ascendancy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> in Standard. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heck, the first deck I built for myself consisted of four <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cinder Pyromancer" href="#" target="_blank">Cinder Pyromancer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s, four <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Flame Jab" href="#" target="_blank">Flame Jab</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s, and 52 Mountains. Retracing the Flame Jabs counts as casting red spells, which untaps the Pyromancers, enabling the deck to machine-gun creatures and opponents alike. It was a thing of beauty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What draws me to combo decks is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, which I’ve always found inspiring. Combo decks typically either elevate seemingly bad cards, or draw out all of the latent potential of powerful cards. Combo decks and Typal decks have that in common, which is one of the main reasons why I love building Typal decks week after week. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there’s one creature type in particular that lends itself to a bevy of combos, with over 200 combos listed on its commander’s EDHREC page.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you guessed it? It’s Druids!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Druids ride the interesting line between the two major types of combos: engine-based, and cut-and-paste. Engine-based combos are ones where the whole deck works together as part of the combo, like Storm decks. Cut-and-paste combos are ones where assembling the pieces in the right zones does incredibly powerful things, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Splinter Twin" href="#" target="_blank">Splinter Twin</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Deceiver Exarch" href="#" target="_blank">Deceiver Exarch</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. The former have the combo as the shell, with some light elements of other archetypes, while the latter have the combo nestled in the shell of a different archetype, like Control.</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Grapeshot"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Splinter Twin"></div></div>
<h2><strong>Druid History</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Druids are a base-green creature type closely connected to nature and the primordial energy of the plane. They are a type related to an occupation instead of a species, often with the Human or Elf secondary typing. In fact, many of the most powerful Humans and Elves in green are also Druids.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Functionally, Druids tap to make bursts of mana like Elves do, but then untap themselves or lands to take it to another level. While Elves in general may be lower to the ground, Druids are far more explosive, leading to a suite of infinite mana combinations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But how do we win a game with all that mana? And what kind of commander could maximize our mana explosion?</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Seton, Krosan Protector"></div></div>
<h2><strong>What Does <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Seton, Krosan Protector" href="#" target="_blank">Seton, Krosan Protector</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Do?</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seton is a 2/2 for 3 mana, all of which is green, so it’s a bit behind on rate from the get-go. Since we’re a mono-green deck, the triple-green cost isn’t too much of a mitigating factor. This is what keeps it from being too bonkers, however, as Seton is still incredibly powerful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seton’s power lies in its activated ability. By tapping any Druid, including Seton, we make a green mana. This means that any Druid becomes a hasty <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Llanowar Elves" href="#" target="_blank">Llanowar Elves</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. As we churn through the deck, we continue making mana, enabling us to turn the infinite mana outlets into infinite draw outlets.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re not in the lower Brackets anymore; we’re teetering between 3 and 4, leaning towards Bracket 4’s proto-cEDH.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what would a Druid deck look like? And how does it balance being both a Typal deck and a Combo one?</span></p>
<h2><strong>Key Cards for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Seton, Krosan Protector" href="#" target="_blank">Seton, Krosan Protector</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engine-based combos require three distinct categories of cards: mana, draw, and exhaust. Cut-and-paste combos require specific cards and effects that combine together. The mana of the deck is composed of creatures that tap for large amounts of mana and permanents that untap those mana-producing creatures for less than the amount created, going infinite. The card draw forms an engine with these effects, enabling us to find the exhaust, permanents that have activated abilities we can pour the infinite mana into, known as "mana sinks."</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Priest of Titania"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Karametra&#039;s Acolyte"></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Priest of Titania" href="#" target="_blank">Priest of Titania</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Karametra&#039;s Acolyte" href="#" target="_blank">Karametra&#039;s Acolyte</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> both provide a ton of mana. The Priest makes mana equal to the number of Elves we control, and many Druids are also Elves. The Acolyte makes mana equal to our devotion to green, which gets quite high with a commander that has three green pips.</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Umbral Mantle"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Staff of Domination"></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Umbral Mantle" href="#" target="_blank">Umbral Mantle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Staff of Domination" href="#" target="_blank">Staff of Domination</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can untap creatures for a bit of mana. They go infinite with creatures that make bursts of mana because the Priest and Acolyte can tap to make enough mana to pay for the cost of untapping themselves through the artifacts, forming a cut-and-paste combo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what do we do with that mana?</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Beast Whisperer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Augur of Autumn"></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Beast Whisperer" href="#" target="_blank">Beast Whisperer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of several cards in green that act like the <a href="https://edhrec.com/top/game-changers">Game Changer</a> <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Glimpse of Nature" href="#" target="_blank">Glimpse of Nature</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, drawing cards when we cast a creature. It is also a Druid, so we can tap it and any new creatures to continue drawing through our deck. <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> lets us play creatures from the top of the deck, so we can avoid fizzling in the event we don’t draw one. These effects form the engine of the deck.</span></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Three Tree City"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Wirewood Lodge"></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Three Tree City" href="#" target="_blank">Three Tree City</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of several lands that make a burst of mana, meaning that we can simulate Priest and Acolyte by untapping those mana-burst lands. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wirewood Lodge" href="#" target="_blank">Wirewood Lodge</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> untaps an Elf, simulating Mantle and Staff. Any way we can squeeze bonus copies of our combo pieces is welcome.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But how do we close the game out?</span></p>
<h2><strong>How Does This <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Seton, Krosan Protector" href="#" target="_blank">Seton, Krosan Protector</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Commander Deck Win?</strong></h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kamahl, Fist of Krosa"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Helix Pinnacle"></div></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kamahl, Fist of Krosa" href="#" target="_blank">Kamahl, Fist of Krosa</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> could be a Druid commander at a lower Bracket, as it is an excellent mana sink. We can use it to animate any excess lands we have, and we can stack layers of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Overrun" href="#" target="_blank">Overrun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s to trample over our opponents. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Helix Pinnacle" href="#" target="_blank">Helix Pinnacle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a somewhat silly-looking alternative, until you see that it only costs one mana, has shroud, and is an infinite mana sink.</span></p>
<h2>The Deck List</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Seton, Krosan Protector Commander Deck Tech" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="&nbsp;
[Commander]
*1 Seton, Krosan Protector
[/Commander]
&nbsp;
[Creatures]
*1 Allosaurus Shepherd
*1 Arbor Elf
*1 Argothian Elder
*1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
*1 Augur of Autumn
*1 Beast Whisperer
*1 Birchlore Rangers
*1 Boreal Druid
*1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
*1 Circle of Dreams Druid
*1 Deeproot Historian
*1 Devoted Druid
*1 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid
*1 Dundoolin Weaver
*1 Elvish Archdruid
*1 Elvish Harbinger
*1 Elvish Mystic
*1 Elvish Pioneer
*1 Eternal Witness
*1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
*1 Fanatic of Rhonas
*1 Formidable Speaker
*1 Fyndhorn Elves
*1 Gala Greeters
*1 Gyre Sage
*1 Heritage Druid
*1 Hope Tender
*1 Incubation Druid
*1 Joraga Treespeaker
*1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
*1 Kamahl, Heart of Krosa
*1 Karametra&#039;s Acolyte
*1 Krosan Restorer
*1 Krosan Wayfarer
*1 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
*1 Ley Weaver
*1 Llanowar Druid
*1 Llanowar Elves
*1 Llanowar Tribe
*1 Marwyn, the Nurturer
*1 Priest of Titania
*1 Silvanus&#039;s Invoker
*1 Soul of the Harvest
*1 Temur Sabertooth
*1 Topiary Lecturer
*1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
*1 Voice of Many
*1 Voyaging Satyr
*1 Wirewood Channeler
*1 Wirewood Symbiote
[/Creatures]
&nbsp;
[Artifacts]
*1 Akroma&#039;s Memorial
*1 Cloudstone Curio
*1 Staff of Domination
*1 Sword of the Paruns
*1 Thousand-Year Elixir
*1 Umbral Mantle
[/Artifacts]
&nbsp;
[Enchantments]
*1 Aluren
*1 Concordant Crossroads
*1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
*1 Helix Pinnacle
*1 Leyline of Abundance
[/Enchantments]
&nbsp;
[Instants]
*1 Benefactor&#039;s Draught
*1 Vitalize
[/Instants]
&nbsp;
[Sorceries]
*1 Mobilize
[/Sorceries]
&nbsp;
[Lands]
*1 Boseiju, Who Endures
*1 Cavern of Souls
*1 Deserted Temple
*1 Evendo, Waking Haven
*25 Forest
*1 Gaea&#039;s Cradle
*1 Maze of Ith
*1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
*1 Shifting Woodland
*1 Three Tree City
*1 Wirewood Lodge
[/Lands]
&nbsp;"></span></div></span></p>
<h2><strong>Conclusion</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Combo decks are a ton of fun. There are other combo-oriented Typal commanders in the upper Brackets, including <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Azami, Lady of Scrolls" href="#" target="_blank">Azami, Lady of Scrolls</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Wizards; <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Magda, Brazen Outlaw" href="#" target="_blank">Magda, Brazen Outlaw</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Dwarves; and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Scion of the Ur-Dragon" href="#" target="_blank">Scion of the Ur-Dragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Dragons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But how would you build a Typal Combo deck? And who would lead your Rube Goldberg contraption?</span></p>


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Building Druid Typal with Seton, Krosan Protector