Green mages! What’s your favorite thing about playing green? Did we miss any of the color’s pitfalls? What’s your favorite tech to shore up those weaknesses and pilot your green decks to victory?
@ArthurVeenema4 ай бұрын
I've got enough to think about throughout the day. When I play magic I just wanna turn off my brain and stomp.
@lanephillips41314 ай бұрын
I’m a green mage through and through and my favorite deck by far is my OG Ghalta Good stuff deck and it’s always a blast!
@montyvelezjr10164 ай бұрын
I just love playing big creatures and swinging at opponents. I play lands, draw more cards, and usually put the table on notice.
@Vorniforous4 ай бұрын
as a mono blue spell caster this video was hard to even open.
@Smokin_Choochang4 ай бұрын
Why I’m a green mage is A: the number of ways you can build your deck and still have complete bombshell staples available to you (counters, landfall, stompy, etc.). I’ve already built mono green in each of these styles (bristly bill for counters, Titania, nature’s force for landfall, and Ojer Kaslem for stompy), and each style just gets out of pocket wayyy too fast. Secondly, nothing makes me happier than playing a card that everyone either oohs and ahha at, or makes them go “oh crap”.
@montyvelezjr10164 ай бұрын
Very nice of the Command Zone to bring Kyle Hill back as a host for another episode!
@danieldepass1804 ай бұрын
Budget, budget Chris Hemsworth.
@hunterjoverstreet4 ай бұрын
Chris Hemsworthless
@Dragoncat2244 ай бұрын
I honestly thought they did the kyle hill joke with the thumbnail, then I realised.
@matthewjecelin83584 ай бұрын
Jeez first I watched the commander at home with JLK and voxy and now kibler is back? This is a good day for my magic brain
@changminsong4 ай бұрын
Does this guy have credentials to be teaching us?
@icedphat4 ай бұрын
He got that street cred fo sho
@blackdenarius3074 ай бұрын
Well yeah! This is bargain bin, award-winning science communicator Kyle Hill!
@BadPainYatta4 ай бұрын
Just casual player, He is in MTG Hall of Fame. No big deal
@commanderathome4 ай бұрын
Yeah what does that guy know about ANYTHING?!
@nathansrithong50064 ай бұрын
I think he plays hearthstone
@shinjuku18344 ай бұрын
Brian Kibler is the greatest creature deck builder of all time, and the last time he didn't play green in a pro tour or GP he was patient 0 for getting Jace, the Mind Sculptor banned 🐐🐐🐐
@Dark-Pikachu14 ай бұрын
You mean Kyle hill
@aR0ttenBANANA4 ай бұрын
@@Dark-Pikachu1 You mean Chris Hemsworth after the disfigurement.
@mattybbg68504 ай бұрын
Good to see Kyle back on, not only a science educator but an MTG one too.
@JazMan20014 ай бұрын
Finally! Creator and host of Tolarian Community College Brian, “The Professor”!!!! Is on the command zone podcast!
@DabbleDo4 ай бұрын
That’s obviously Kyle Hill
@fiercedeavora4 ай бұрын
No, it's discount Kyle Hill.
@green_dragon_knight4 ай бұрын
I look forward to his mono-green merfolk deck tech 😀
@caseyl50014 ай бұрын
Thank you Kibler you just helped me improve so many decks. I’m a green player through and through and there is so much I just learned from this. The bit about just making sure what I’m doing works instead of worrying about how to remove everybody else’s stuff makes so much sense. Great video!
@dflameX4 ай бұрын
I take a year or two off from Kibler at a time, and every time I see him pop up he has grown more and more glorious, luscious, and majestic. He has not even reached his final form.
@LucaTube4 ай бұрын
He's like a Green Delver of Secrets, but with hair.
@user-zt6ut5dz9z4 ай бұрын
"So Nylea..... is a GOD... Where in her art is TOWERING over the TREES.... with a BOW, pointed at the SKY........... she doesn't have REACH." That killed me...
@hamishbeadle47784 ай бұрын
Why is award winning science educator Kyle Hill teaching us how to play green and not Artifacts or Jeskei. Or something real like effects of radiation this is quite far out his wheel house
@drakesrader5824 ай бұрын
I can't wait to learn about green. Been loving this series and have found it a very entertaining and educational form to learn this game. Love the content guys. We can tell yall love this community and game 😁
@roronoa12434 ай бұрын
That meme of the two ends of a bell curve being the same, one end is a new player saying "this card gains me so much life, how can I lose?" and the other end is Kibler saying "this card gains you so much life, how can I lose?"
@crawdaddy20044 ай бұрын
6:58 At GP Minneapolis in, like, 2011, I asked BK to sign my play set of Knights of the Reliquary that I played in my Abzan Loam Legacy deck (as KoR is my favorite card of all time, too). He agreed, but just as I was pulling them out, he got pulled away. Oh well, he was at least able to sign my play mat as a consolation. 😂
@scottlittle45074 ай бұрын
Brian Kibler is an absolute treasure
@ShawnR7184 ай бұрын
Well imma grab a notepad and a pen real quick for this one
@thomaspetrucka91734 ай бұрын
YES!!! You HAD to get Brian for the green one! The professor better be there to explain blue. 😉
@frankthomas24104 ай бұрын
Feel like unless it is merfolk, jlk is better for blue and explaining card advantage
@guico334 ай бұрын
JLK *and* Prof together would certainly be nice.
@totakekeslider38354 ай бұрын
It’s almost certainly going to be JLK
@bobbye43694 ай бұрын
JLK should be the one explaining blue 100%
@johnnyMercy5834 ай бұрын
How often do they do these? Feels like there has been a massive gap
@MikhailHudon_ZerithFarron4 ай бұрын
Wow, I was getting ready to make my first mono-green deck helmed by Hatsune Miku (Azusa, Lost But Seeking) in preparation for the Secret lair drop. As an Azorius purist, thanks a bunch for this convenient upload!
@totakekeslider38354 ай бұрын
Oh wow, this was the episode of this series I was most looking forward to, but never would’ve guessed you would get the Brian “Brian Kibler” Kibler from Brian Kibler Gaming to do it!
@AlfredoWasTaken4 ай бұрын
PRO GREEN PLAYER: "At one point my brain shuts down" ME: *Green Intensifies*
@Zer0Crow4 ай бұрын
Are we sure it's green? It might be Red. Love ya Kibler.
@ngpspro44 ай бұрын
Timmy sized insight here. Thank you! I just swapped out 8 cards out of my Goreclaw deck and the deck flows so much better. This episode really made me think about my ramp. Cultivate, Kodama's Reach etc. have always been an auto include, but they may not always be what the deck wants. Great to hear from 2 creature heavy pro's. Really big help!!
@FlashTheSlothDMV4 ай бұрын
I love this series of how to play Color. I cannot wait until blue comes out.
@datblackminotaur81014 ай бұрын
I could listen to Brian talk concepts and strategy all day long
@jasonandrews17703 ай бұрын
Green is def the most beginner friendly colour
@gr8stonedurgon5084 ай бұрын
Just wanted to say, I won a game last night thanks to this video. Took out 3 lands and some non-creature ramp from my mono green deck for some mana dorks, 1-cost ramp auras, and duskwatch recruiter. I was about to lose, but pumped a bunch of mana into duskwatch as a last-ditch effort and managed to find a Bane of Progress that cleared out the enchantments that were stopping my army of big creatures. Thank you Rachel and Brian!
@anythinginteresting34123 ай бұрын
I did not know about Duskwatch Recruiter until this video, but I super excited to try it out. I am glad to hear a ringing endorsement from someone else as well! Though I do not look forward to tracking when exactly it flips lol.
@AStormbl3ssed4 ай бұрын
Is that Kyle Hill?!?!? Crazy
@nerdstrong4 ай бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see Kibler, I click Kibler.
@xsnapcpop4 ай бұрын
Take a drink for every time Mowu is mentioned 🤣
@jaguarlineman4 ай бұрын
As a person who had built a mono green, two Simic, one Golgari, two Jund, and a Naya deck in two years; this was so so helpful in answering the ways to use the best types of green especially for ramp and removal which I’ve struggled to nail down. Thank you so much! 💖
@Hysteria194 ай бұрын
Just a clarification at about 42:00 cultivate and kodama’s reach are 100% ramp but also fixing. It puts a land into play that you otherwise would not have been able to do so it is ramp.
@TheVextor4 ай бұрын
Just watching now and hearing you guys say "What are you going to do with 30 mana?" And I am just here with my new Omnath Locus of Mana commander deck! Great video as always
@joshbowdish98513 ай бұрын
about green ramp: You can get a surprising amount of mana by choosing some of the enchantment ramp and untapping lands. Arixmethes is my deck built around this but you can really slide the package into any deck. Instead of just dumping more lands onto the field, you can enchant stuff and then untap it, getting more mileage out of your ramp spells.
@wolfsack10644 ай бұрын
Love the Psyduck hat. How is Rachel so effortlessly freaking cool!?! 🥹
@buttermaster16554 ай бұрын
The only mono green deck I have been supper excited to build is Runadi , behemoth caller cast big creatures in Magic’s history and give them haste to attack immediately!
@anythinginteresting34123 ай бұрын
I endorse this mono green commander lol
@ericlopez36734 ай бұрын
Kibblers reasoning for the exploration in Samut is mine with those effects in my Annie flash and Faldorn decks because you keep Impulsing lands and I hate wasting all that free real estate
@persephone93603 ай бұрын
im sure shes been here for years at this point and im bafflingly behind the times but i gotta say rachel has been a FANTASTIC addition to this channel. sometimes you just find the absolute perfect individual to fill a big role and this is what that looks like. wish i could consume more of this content on a regular basis than i currently can but i wish everyone behind the CZ the best. thanks for doing all you do
@archstanton1274 ай бұрын
This was really inspiring, thanks CZ
@commandcast4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@chemicalbluebloo23274 ай бұрын
"Its big enough." Amen 😂
@keithmenzer64544 ай бұрын
Green IS good at everything. No color has been as pushed for so long as green. They’ve gone WAY overboard “shoring up greens weaknesses.”
@PANDAXD0014 ай бұрын
Yeeeeesssssss. Been waiting for the green episode and can't believe it's Kibler
@TheJmarco244 ай бұрын
Is that Kyle hill?
@maruhto35082 ай бұрын
Biggest takeaway from this episode: fangren marauder is green's teferi's protection, basically. Thanks Rachel ;) Also: Kibler playing Gruul so much because he is green/red color blind is just hilarious :D such a nice touch. Hes like destined, a higher calling to Gruul. Chosen by xenagos. REVEL
@steveivey6454 ай бұрын
I love these kinds of videos. It helps me with my deck building so much and turns my low power decks into high power decks just by understanding the color better
@kaleidoscopeme4 ай бұрын
The episode I've been waiting for!!! 🌳🌳🌳
@jacobtrahan19934 ай бұрын
After the color tutorials, I wonder if they’ll do archetype tutorials like artifacts or aristocrats for example. These are a great listen
@ertai2224 ай бұрын
Good idea
@jeppekjr46184 ай бұрын
Haven’t even watched it yet, but this is probably my favorite episode ever
@Beev373 ай бұрын
"Any cards that answer their own questions are generally good" - I've never heard it phrased like this but its so succinct.
@dira_versal4 ай бұрын
A truly great deck builder who is teaching and preaching so much that I totally agree with. Commander is better Kibler brewing and enjoying himself.
@camoyuki4 ай бұрын
40:10 Exploration is SUPER important in my Thirteenth Doctor deck. I run The Thirteenth Doctor with Yasmin as the commanders and I have a ton of impulse draw effects so I can cast things from exile rather than my hand to get paradox triggers, but I always end up impulse drawing a lot of lands or I'll need to dig through lands when I have The Reality Chip out and attached to a creature, so being able to play those extra lands is really helpful to get them out of the way or make sure they don't go to waste when they are impulse drawn, and all that extra mana is nice too XD
@zealcrux4 ай бұрын
I love when Kyle Hill shows up on TCZ!
@Vorniforous4 ай бұрын
daas not hill
@sergepicme3 ай бұрын
Thanks to Mr.Kibler . Thanks to the Command Zone .
@NateFinch4 ай бұрын
This explains why I like so many of Brian's decks. I, too, am a green player at heart.
@jamesweber85093 ай бұрын
Brian is my hero!
@jamesweber85093 ай бұрын
Mono green can turn all your opponent's lands into creatures to punish the board wipers... let there be salt!
@zacdredge38592 ай бұрын
Beyond the type of ramp it's also a frequently overlooked concept to consider the timing of your ramp. If you have a 4 cost Commander, for example, it's more important to play 2 cost ramp than 3 cost ramp with upside like Kodama's Reach/Cultivate. A note with Apex Altisaur is just that giving it Indestructible does make it a full boardwipe. Also don't forget the value of Deathtouch especially in combination with bite spells or something sneaky like Viridian Longbow.
@Tyler-Clark4 ай бұрын
Like Kogla, Silverback Elder is undervalued. He's saved my bacon many times. Nissa, Ascended Animist was the first planeswalker card I unlocked in arena and I've put it in all my green decks since. Fantastic card.
@chillbzrkrАй бұрын
Bristy bill is so OP a whole lot of land draw and enchantments to play more land a turn and from the top of library. was doubling the tokens 3 times a turn got to 1158/1158 in very short amount of time
@glennwith2ns3 ай бұрын
It took me 2 weeks to get through this episode but thank you! Gargos is my dude and I've had a few iterations, came away from this episode with options for the top of your library and you dont have to answer everything! Cheers!
@keithbowen27044 ай бұрын
I agree whole heartedly with the concept of "you kill my threat, I play another threat." I have been playing green since beta. My favorite part of green is of course the creatures, but the enchantments green can sport are some of the most unique. From staples like doubling season, wild growth, parallel lives, rancor, tribute to the world tree, concordant crossroads, garruk's uprising, hardened scales, to lesser known ones like lurking predators, wild pair, tornado, zendikar resurgent and elemental bond to color hate cards against blue and black like carpet of flowers, asceticism, or my favorite nature's wrath. Then there is my favorite anti removal/Voltron card out there, dense foliage. Throw in feed the pack with the plethora of creatures whose power and toughness are equal to the number of creatures you control. There are just so many powerful and unique green enchantments.
@mufasafalldown84014 ай бұрын
Thr Great Henge nuff said.
@DarthTUK4 ай бұрын
I am a green player. Out of my 20 decks 14 include green (4 are mono green). One of my best moments was when I won a war on the stack against a Talarand player (me on Gargos). I also have a mono green mill deck :3
@Pantjay4 ай бұрын
OMG is that THE Brian Kibler of Purina Dog food fame?!
@chrisgallo22363 ай бұрын
Kibler was the inspiration for me building my Vorosh deck. It’s got green and uses +1/+1 counters to smash face. I guess in a way it’s my take and way of paying homage to his Rith deck. He’s plays a style very similar to me. I just love playing big things and smashing face!
@robertoruiz7424 ай бұрын
I came here for Brian Kibler, but all I got was Kyle Hill....lol
@anythinginteresting34123 ай бұрын
Green's main pitfall: Cyclonic Rift. I say this because it is a game winning spell that green can never interact with. It also perfectly represents how sweepers can kneecap green. Furthermore, Cyclonic rift cannot be stopped with Heroic Intervention like most others. Well... except Farewell, another problem card. With cyclonic rift you end up with all your mana dorks in hand and if you have no haste it will take at least a turn before you can attack in. Additionally, if someone is not planning to win through combat then the game is slowed down and you are unequipped to deal with whatever combo, aristocrat, spell slinger win they have been working on. As a green mage, I really appreciated this episode and Brian's insights. I think I have been playing against higher power level decks, so I am all too familiar with it's weaknesses. It reassured me that there is not much you really can do about interacting with problematic spells or permanents, and the best solution is to remove that player by building an efficient and capable deck. The biggest problem with playing green is just how on the board and sorcery speed green can be. People will interpret you as the biggest threat, so I think it can be helpful to remind people of the more stealthy powerful things other players are doing. Helping people know what else is problematic can help them direct their removal at other threats or combos. Green is really weak to combos. It's a bit political, but I would also say it's also important being able to admit when you are the problem and enjoy that part of playing green. I always enjoy seeing how a table comes together to deal with Blightsteel Colossus when I play it. Talking about green's weakness to removal, I think the biggest thing I have been doing to improve my green decks is trying to incorporate more card draw and a sustainable game plan. Green's strength of building a board that invokes fear is very quickly squashed by sweepers, so it's important to build with this in mind. If you still have a bunch of cards in hand after a sweeper you will not be nearly as sad. Card draw is not the only solution to deal with sweepers. I have been playing more land ramp to get around losing all my mana dorks if someone sweeps the board. My favorite part of this episode is how you talked about overrun effects, and how they help dodge green's main problem of being too on board. I think my next commander deck I am going to try and build will have a focus on using overrun effects to have a more surprising win that avoids some of the feel bads of playing readily apparent threats and seeing them removed. I have a super fast elf deck that run's Craterhoof as a finisher but I want to try making a more run of the mill green deck that tries to use other overruns to win. I don't want to buy another craterhoof it's so expensive lol. Also this video had some super solid card suggestions! Kogla and the Nissa planeswalker are two that I agreed are underrated. I didn't know about Duskwatch Recruiter and I am going to have to try it out as soon as possible!
@cptregalz80914 ай бұрын
Yes! So happy to see this. I absolutely loved the Black video with Ladee Danger and this one did not disappoint. Can't wait for the rest of the cycle!
@viashno4 ай бұрын
Where I've found fogs to be most effective isn't defensively, but offensively. They'll let you go all in on an attack, and not worry about the crackback. They've won me a lot of games with Ruxa, Patient Professor
@26ZS4 ай бұрын
Green:”I’d say my biggest weaknesses are that I ramp TOO fast, my creatures are TOO big, and that my overruns are TOO effective.”
@tysonwarkentin81914 ай бұрын
Trample is my favourite keyword. It’s so good. So happy Kibler was here to talk Green
@mr_mxyzptlk48154 ай бұрын
I watched this episode on Thursday. It got me rev'd up to play my mono-Green Azusa deck that night at Commander Night at the LGS. I got a solid opening hand and took off by turn 2 was arch-enemy. By turn 4 I was dominating but also top-decking. I kept hearing Brian say, "There's no tricks, all my cards are on the table and it's obvious what I'm doing. Now, stop me if you can." I won on turn 7.
@Arti_Shovelhead4 ай бұрын
"It's not easy being green.", Kermit the frog.
@Nullking_4 ай бұрын
I am a big green player myself; majority of my decks have green in them. it normally is a major support color or used for ramping really hard. I do agree Utopia Sprawl, Wild Growth and Fertile ground (that wasn't talked about it) are great, but utilizing creatures like Arbor Elf, Voyaging Satyr, and most recently Potent Tracker, etc. Combining these things really makes for some broken ramp, just arbor elf and wild growth is 4 mana on turn 2. This is also nice when you are playing effects like collector ouphe or stony silence to really put you ahead.
@williamfitch15464 ай бұрын
I WAS WATCHING THE WHITE AND RED ONES EARLIER THIS WEEK AND I WANTED A GREEN EPISODE SO BAD
@kibspoker3 ай бұрын
Bruh.. I DONT EVEN PLAY COMMANDER... But mah goodness its Brian Kibler.. Imma watch the vid till the end... Lez go!
@FiendFyreNyx4 ай бұрын
One of my favorites is I run Ashaya as my commander and having scute swarm. Then casting last march of the ents when ashaya is 15+ power/toughness.
@ImKhione4 ай бұрын
I have a Mono Green Omnath, Locus of Mana deck and the biggest I’ve gotten him is 1687/1687 😂
@Jowahotz904 ай бұрын
I love how if Rachel says a part of a card Brian just knows which card she's talking about, he really is a pro
@borislibaque155810 күн бұрын
Great episode guys. My favourite thing about green is that the math in combat is simpler. If all my creatures trample you can just ask what's your total toughness. Or you can ask how many creatures do you have. And it just makes deciding how much power you need for this wave of attackers easy. Timmy don't like thinky. The part about removal was interesting and I like that Brian said fight spells are actually pretty reliable if you want to use them. But I think I agree with the overall sentiment of but why would you bother. I've always thought of every creature as a removal spell because they attack and block and win all thier fights and if they aren't doing that they're too small. The only removal I really look for in my stompy decks are artifact enchantment wraths and I've never felt over-encumbered even with a dozen of those, because they make the game come down to who has more and bigger creatures, which is exactly the sort of game a stompy deck wants. And in line with that, any decks looping stuff in the hand or grave, or upticking planeswalkers, or building some strange combo engine, are going to become unstoppable. So mostly black and blue, and if there's no other information available and you have to focus your attacks, those are often high priority targets. I'm surprised Brian didn't mention X spells, or maybe I missed it, but any sort of X spell in a green players hands is just bananas. It sort of doesn't matter what it does because X is just massive. I'm having a blast in standard right now with a hasty x cost hydra
@meownezz4 ай бұрын
I've always been inclined to play green, 60-card or commander. Despite that, I have stuff to take away from this episode. Thank you so much for the master class!
@ryanwhite36544 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan of mono decks, and at the moment im loving my Mono Green Radagat the Brown deck!
@TheRedKnightOfPain4 ай бұрын
As an add-on for green wraths, there's aforementioned Ezuri's predation, various Hurricane and similar cards for flyers, mass enchantment removal like back to nature, and monstrous onslaught for getting a lot of little things (it's not great, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel)
@Jaebird884 ай бұрын
Of my favorite decks to play--with one being Selesnya (Rhys the Redeemed) and the other Gruul (Radha, Heart of Keld)--the problem I usually encounter is what I'm trying to do with both can be seen a mile away.
@insainraven98754 ай бұрын
I was getting curious when this series would continue
@comedycorpse97683 ай бұрын
Its THE Kibler ! good to see you on the show big guy, love your content
@toxicgaming0034 ай бұрын
I love that psyduck hat
@TheKumaXKuma3 ай бұрын
I'm a jank player, so take it as you may. What I like about green is the ability to ramp everyone to make games where things wouldn't usually happen and make them go a little faster/wider (though this never goes well around that one player that likes to go infinite in their corners by playing 20+ cards on turn 3). I also teach games to a lot of new players, so Green can be a little bit more linear and touches a bit of everything without going to deep into technicalities.
@Vermazing4 ай бұрын
Thank you!!! I really needed this video! i just discovered im a green mage. and this was very helpful. I now know why i am always the archenemy and why people keep freaking out whenever i do stuff thank you. I have an issue with red whenever i try to add red or make a R/G deck i take it apart instantly. I know some of it has do with me not liking any of the red/green commanders, I dont see any effect that i want in the command zone or to build around. I feel wrong playing red overall and dont know why.
@TheBeesBurgian384 ай бұрын
I love green!
@BuppGuy4 ай бұрын
My Rage Omnath follows a lot of this. 63 lands. Everything else helps play more lands every turn. The only interaction is a couple sac outlets for those elementals to throw 3 damage around.
@jessenash54 ай бұрын
Stoked Wurms finally got some respect put on them. By far my favorite creature type. Also, super happy to see Brian builds Gruul decks like I build Rakdos decks
@shilohartisan3 ай бұрын
I used to run Roaring Earth in my budget Ashaya deck. I never cast it, i ONLY used it for the channel ability (to give a creature haste, all my creatures being lands because of Ashaya)
@Exile5594 ай бұрын
Simple, run gwenna eyes of gaea as a commander. Zophandrel, Unnatural Growth, and emergent wood wurm. Use card draw like harmonize, gerruks uprising, endless atlas, and hunters prowess. Use perpetual timepiece and gaeas blessing to refresh your graveyard. Turn 1 soul ring is pretty much rocketing a 5 drop at least on turn 3.
@Luckie_7Ай бұрын
I made an ottowara proxy, full art of laputa from castle in the sky, it’s for a Miyazaki Jodah archmage eternal wubrg goodstuff deck as a home for pet cards in the form of proxies. There’s stuff from anything from ponyo to wind rises. It has a lot of my favorite big green creatures in it. Scute swarm is the dust sprites from spirited away, giant adaphage is an ohmu from nausicca and mowu is Moro, the wolf from princess Mononoke.
@nathanbrockman44444 ай бұрын
I can’t wait for a how to play blue with Josh
@justace97904 ай бұрын
As a mana green player this gave me such a good insight into where I'm going wrong.
@jacobpourchot62944 ай бұрын
I am rebuilding my first commander deck from 10 years ago. Hell yeah, it was mano green elves. Mana dorks and tokens into giant trample creatures! Here are 20 trample elves coming right for you.💚
@bigshun43014 ай бұрын
This got me rebrewin my boros deck brian speaks wisdom
@floriankaeder4 ай бұрын
49:20 i respect the arrested development reference
@aimlessgun4 ай бұрын
Note about Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl: I think they are underplayed and part of that is because it's not "instead of" a Llanowar Elf, it's in addition. Lots of decks want a 100% chance to play their 3 CMC commander on T2, and in a singleton 100 card format there simply aren't enough 1 drop ramps to exclude those enchantments (unless you are playing with expensive fast mana ofc).