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Price
€99.77of €100.00
Overall win rate
10%24 wins in 234 scored games
Games
270 (36)played in 27 tournaments, 36 not scored (time limit)
Rank
57in the rankings up to €100 · Elo 1310 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
1of at most 3 allowed
Combos
4complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

Time limit note: 13% of this deck's games hit the time limit without a winner even on the third try (all decks in this price class: 6%). Usually the Forge AI is stuck in a loop then, e.g. with lots of tokens. These games don't count – so the win rate is somewhat less meaningful.

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 8 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 4 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €100 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (32)

Instants (8)

Sorceries (9)

Artifacts (8)

Enchantments (6)

Lands (36)

Flubs, the Fool
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (4)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Retreat to Coralhelm + … → Infinite landfall triggers
    9 versions, each with one of: Llanowar Scout · Simic Growth Chamber · Scaled Herbalist · Skyshroud Ranger · Gruul Turf · Izzet Boilerworks
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
    6 versions, each with one of: Simic Growth Chamber · Gruul Turf · Dryad of the Ilysian Grove · Oracle of Mul Daya · Wayward Swordtooth
  • Springheart Nantuko + … → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
    4 versions, each with one of: Tireless Provisioner · Lotus Cobra
  • Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Abundance + Retreat to Coralhelm + … → Put all lands from your hand and library onto the battlefield, Near-infinite landfall triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Llanowar Scout · Scaled Herbalist · Skyshroud Ranger

Commander Spellbook lists 22 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 22 entries
  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout + Simic Growth Chamber → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Scaled Herbalist + Simic Growth Chamber → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Simic Growth Chamber + Skyshroud Ranger → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Gruul Turf + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Oracle of Mul Daya → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Gruul Turf + Oracle of Mul Daya → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout + Gruul Turf → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout + Izzet Boilerworks → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Abundance + Retreat to Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout → Put all lands from your hand and library onto the battlefield, Near-infinite landfall triggers
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Gruul Turf + Scaled Herbalist → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Simic Growth Chamber + Wayward Swordtooth → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Scaled Herbalist + Izzet Boilerworks → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Spelunking + Gruul Turf + Wayward Swordtooth → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite green mana, Infinite red mana
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Gruul Turf + Skyshroud Ranger → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Abundance + Retreat to Coralhelm + Scaled Herbalist → Put all lands from your hand and library onto the battlefield, Near-infinite landfall triggers
  • Retreat to Coralhelm + Skyshroud Ranger + Izzet Boilerworks → Infinite landfall triggers
  • Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Abundance + Retreat to Coralhelm + Skyshroud Ranger → Put all lands from your hand and library onto the battlefield, Near-infinite landfall triggers
  • Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens
  • Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra → Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped land tokens

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Abundance: AI can't play it
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Breakthrough: AI can't play it
  • Faithless Looting: AI can't play it
  • Mishra's Bauble: AI can't play it
  • Skyshroud Ranger: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Springleaf Drum: AI can't play it
  • Stomping Ground: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Tinder Wall: AI can't play it
  • Wild Growth: AI can't play it
  • Zuran Orb: adjusted to make room for another replacement
Played instead in the tournament
  • Cabaretti Courtyard: replacement
  • Currency Converter: replacement
  • Dragon's Rage Channeler: replacement
  • Ghostly Pilferer: replacement
  • Laboratory Maniac: replacement
  • Pongify: replacement
  • Rapid Hybridization: replacement
  • Tannuk, Memorial Ensign: replacement
  • Tireless Tracker: replacement
  • Tormod's Crypt: replacement
  • Underworld Breach: replacement

What the games show

From 234 analysed games in 27 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 76% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

No clear strength in the logs.

Weaknesses

  • Little pressure: only avg 13 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 31) logged (234 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.29 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.63) logged (234 games)
  • Vulnerable to graveyard hate: 0% wins when opponents played graveyard hate (e.g. Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace), 11% without it (all-deck avg: 24% vs 25%) indication (17 / 217 games)
  • Depends on its commander: only 0% wins without it, 11% with it indication (25 games without, 209 with commander)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 234 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Tannuk, Memorial Ensign avg 1.9hit in 25 of 234 games
  2. Earthquake avg 1.3hit in 31 of 234 games
  3. Tireless Tracker avg 0.9hit in 14 of 234 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Elemental Token avg 17.9hit in 11 of 234 games
  2. Tannuk, Memorial Ensign avg 17.5hit in 25 of 234 games
  3. Tireless Tracker avg 14.4hit in 14 of 234 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Laboratory Maniac 18×216 games in deck
  2. Elemental Token 8×234 games in deck
  3. Dragon Token 7×234 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Flubs, the Fool 84×avg 0.4 per game · 234 games in deck
  2. Ancient Grudge 21×avg 0.1 per game · 234 games in deck
  3. Rapid Hybridization 19×avg 0.1 per game · 234 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 17% of 1288 attackers blocked in total, 10% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Frog Lizard Token 7×blocked in 7 games
  2. Ape Token 3×blocked in 3 games
  3. Meren of Clan Nel Toth 3×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Cloud of Faeries 0%cast in 0 of 234 games
  2. Blasphemous Act 7%cast in 3 of 45 games
  3. Explore 12%cast in 28 of 234 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 24 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–921%
  • turns 10–1129%
  • turns 12–1312%
  • turn 14+38%

Combos in play logged Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner: all pieces cast in 16 games, 4 won · Springheart Nantuko + Lotus Cobra: all pieces cast in 10 games, 2 won · Retreat to Coralhelm + Llanowar Scout + Simic Growth Chamber: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Retreat to Coralhelm + Scaled Herbalist + Simic Growth Chamber: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.27

8
0
14
1
16
2
14
3
7
4
1
5
1
6
2
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
25 / 20
Card draw
9 / 9
Removal
6 / 6
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
0 / 2
Strategy
21 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
32
Instants
8
Sorceries
9
Artifacts
8
Enchantments
6
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Azusa, Lost but Seeking
€8.13
Stomping Ground
€7.08
Lotus Cobra
€6.02
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
€5.92
Noxious Revival
€4.93
Springheart Nantuko
€4.32
Crop Rotation
€3.43
Ramunap Excavator
€3.09

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Case of the Crimson Pulse instead of Wild Wasteland · win rate 6% with, 12% without (52 / 182 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Tannuk, Memorial Ensign instead of Ominous Seas · win rate 11% with, 9% without (156 / 78 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Currency Converter instead of Everflowing Chalice · win rate 10% with, 11% without (158 / 76 games)

4 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €99.77 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 12 · average place 49.1 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 27 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?