Historically, green has been part of theMagic: The Gatheringcolor pie home to big natural creatures, mana dorks, and mana ramp. In more recent times, relatively new sets have introduced a couple of other mechanics including the production of Food tokens.
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Tie these things together and you’ve got the perfect home for Ents, Hobbits, and Elves from the Lord of the Rings universe. The green additions to the Magic card pool from Tales of Middle-earth are all these things and more. Let’s take a look at the most exciting out of the bunch.
8Delighted Halfling
There are many one mana value mana dorks in Magic, however, Delighted Halfling brings something to the table that none before her have. This is thanks to her ability to make your legendary creature spells cast with the mana she produces uncounterable.
This is a welcome boon in Commander games as it’s highly likely at least one player has a couple of counterspells somewhere in their deck. Beyond this notable difference, Delighted Halfling is actually worse than most other mana dorks as she only produces colored mana for legendary spells.
7The Ring Goes South
This card will only find play in decks stocked with tons of legendary creatures, but there are more than a handful of these kinds of decks in existence already.
Fast mana is a very powerful tool in Commander and The Ring Goes South is capable of presenting a good amount of it as long as you control some legendary creatures. It’s also important that this ramp can find more than just basic lands.
This card also triggers the new Ring tempting mechanic present in the set. When the Ring tempts a player, you select a creature you control to become your Ring-bearer.
This creature gains a number of benefits based on how many times the Ring has tempted you with the benefits maxing out at four instances of Ring tempting.
Bonuses in ascending order include the Ring-bearer becoming legendary and being unblockable by creatures with greater power, a loot trigger when your Ring-bearer attacks, forcing opponents who block your Ring-bearer to sacrifice the blocking creature at the end of combat, and, finally, a trigger which causes each opponent to lose 3 life whenever your Ring-bearer deals combat damage to a player.
6Elven Chorus
We’ve seen this effect before on cards like Course of Kruphix, and it’s proven itself to be pretty good. What makes this enchantment stand out is that all of your creatures also become mana dorks while Elven Chorus remains on the battlefield.
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This allows you to use your own creatures as mana sources with which you may cast the creatures revealed from the top of your library. Token decks and go-wide strategies stand to gain a ton of value out of this card if you’re lucky enough to have multiple creatures stacked on top of your library.
5Long List Of The Ents
This is 6/6 worth of stats distributed over six turns for just a single green mana. That’s a lot of power and toughness for very little cost.
Of course, you’ll need to cast a creature spell every turn in order to see all of these counters, but that’s not a difficult metric to meet for manycreature-based strategies.
You also need to be playing a wide variety of creature types in order to receive these counters turn after turn. However, there are so many creature types in Magic that you usually end up with a bunch of different ones without even trying.
Both aggressive creature decks and counters matter builds will see a lot of mileage out of this cheap saga.
4Radagast The Brown
Speaking of playing different creature types, Radagast is another incentive for filling your deck with a menagerie of different beasts. Radagast’s high toughness makes him great as a blocker.
While he slows your opponents' offense, this Wizard will also keep your hand stocked with creatures assuming you’re casting medium-sized monsters with different creature types.
In a creature-based deck, Radagast essentially makes it so that you will never run out of cards in hand as every creature you cast is more than likely to replace itself with another from the top of your deck.
3Peregrin Took
This fool of a took may not look like all that much at first glance, however, knowledgable Commander players can easily spot the combo potential present here. There are many ways to create an infinite number of tokens in Commander and Peregrin Took rewards you for enacting one of these combos by producing even more tokens.
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The real cherry on top here is that if you haveaccess to infinite tokensthat means you also have access to infinite food tokens. Thanks to Peregrin’s ability to sacrifice three food tokens and draw a card, this means you unlock infinite draw potential as well.
Drawing your entire deck is likely to enable just about every combo you’ve decided to stock it with, so you can see how Peregrin Took might soon be making waves in Commander.
2Entish Restoration
Ramp effects like explosive vegetation have always cost four mana value in exchange for placing two lands onto the battlefield. Entish Restoration does one better by allowing for the same mana acceleration for a mana less.
However, it does come with the caveat that you need to control a creature with power four or greater in order to receive this benefit.
There aren’t a huge number of creatures with power four or greater that cost two mana so it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to get the full value out of this spell on turn three. However, Entish Restoration can easily be cast on a later turn in the game for its maximum effect.
The fact that Restoration’s an instant also allows for plays where you can surprise opponents with access to way more mana than they were expecting you to have. Lastly, landfall decks can have a field day with this new spell thanks to it placing three lands on the battlefield at once.
1Last March Of The Ents
This spell does require setup in the form of possessing a creature with high toughness and also is susceptible to being blown out byinstant speed removal. All of that being said, you can take assurances, such as creatures with hexproof and instants that provide hexproof, to ensure your Last March goes off without a hitch.
If you do manage to successfully cast this spell, your battlefield is likely to instantly become the most threatening one in the game. In combination with creatures like Craterhoof Behemoth, Last March of the Ents can even present lethal damage the same turn it is cast.
