MTG Commander: Karametra, God of Harvests

This deck is an Elf Bomb: accelerate mana through mana elves and Karametra’s land drops, and win with large X creatures or hordes of elves.

Karametra, God of Harvests helps a lot with ramp, but she also requires a lot of tutoring and shuffling, so it can slow down the game considerably if you also want to time your plays correctly. The main reason I’m taking the deck apart is because I’m going to rebuild it around Chulane, Teller of Tales, who helps with both ramp and card draw, and avoids the delay of constant land tutoring.

This deck is reasonably good, maybe a 6/10 for power. Its fun comes from making giant creatures and/or a lot of creatures. It tends to win more when it goes wide than when it goes tall, due to lack of evasion or trample.

Now that I think about it, this deck has a problem I’ve had before in decks I build: it is basically two decks mashed together. It’s trying to do both Elf Tribal and Big Mana Stompy, but it should just choose one. I built a worse Elf deck with a poor commander, but it needs some of the cards from this deck to work well enough to bother with. I expect I’ll eventually end up with both a Chulane Big Mana deck and another Elf Tribal.

Karametra, God of Ramp

Commander (1)
Karametra, God of Harvests

Creatures (37)
Beast Whisperer
Birds of Paradise
Drove of Elves
Elvish Archdruid
Elvish Branchbender
Elvish Champion
Elvish Harbinger
Elvish Piper
Elvish Spirit Guide
Fyndhorn Elves
Heart Warden
Heedless One
Heroes’ Bane
Hydra Broodmaster
Imperious Perfect
Ironroot Warlord
Jaddi Offshoot
Kaysa
Krakilin
Llanowar Druid
Llanowar Elves
Lys Alana Bowmaster
Lys Alana Huntmaster
Quirion Elves
Priest of Titania
Sigil Captain
Stonecoil Serpent
Sylvan Messenger
Timberwatch Elf
Voice of Resurgence
Voice of the Woods
Wellwisher
Wirewood Herald
Wirewood Symbiote
Wolf-Skull Shaman
Wood Elves
Worldsoul Colossus

Enchantments (10)
Dictate of Heliod
Elephant Grass
Elvish Guidance
Gaea’s Touch
Guardian Project
Midsummer Revel
Oblivion Ring
Pacifism
Titania’s Song
Vernal Bloom

Sorceries (6)
Harmonize
Hunt the Weak
Hurricane
New Frontiers
Rabid Bite
Wrath of God

Instants (9)
Nature’s Chant
Swords to Plowshares
Mercy Killing
Condemn
Solidarity of Heroes
Dromoka’s Command
Hunter’s Insight
Ancient Animus
Warriors’ Lesson

Artifacts (2)
Prowler’s Helm
Slate of Ancestry
Lands (35)
20 Forest
Plains
Savannah
Selesnya Guildgate
Sunpetal Grove
Tranquil Expanse
Tranquil Thicket
Wirewood Lodge