Japanese Green
Hello everyone! I’m Joey a new writer for MTGG! I’ve been playing magic the gathering now for awhile and I would like to share experiences and decklists with you all! Today I will be covering a decklist that won the National Qualifiers in Japan but I’ve tweaked it out a little, it is Japanese Green!
Lands
18 Forest
2 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
3 Khalni Garden
Creatures
2 Great Sable Stag
3 Joraga Treespeaker
2 Kozilek’s Predator
4 Nest Invader
2 Vengevine
3 Leatherback Baloth
2 River Boa
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Noble Hierarch
Spells
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Eldrazi Monument
2 Bestial Menace
4 Overrun
2 Beastmaster Ascension
Sideboard
1 Great Sable Stag
2 River Boa
1 Eldrazi Monument
2 Bestial Menace
2 Naturalize
3 Fog
3 Pithing Needle
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
This deck is my personal version of the Jap. Green deck originally ran by Ryuma Narumiya at the Japan National Qualifiers, where he scored a Top 8 victory and a slot in the Japan Nationals.
Win Condition!
The win condition for this deck is Overrun, Beastmaster Ascension, or Eldrazi Monument. Heck why don’t you just use all three at once for some impressive damage?!
Sideboard!
The sideboard contains Kozilek for the small smattering of mill decks still left in the metagame. (seriously who plays it anymore knowing that most people would have once of the 3 legendary eldrazi in there just to screw it over??) I chose him over Emrakul because at some points in the game if i draw into him i can actually play him, whereas emrakul that would be impossible.
Pithing needle is for the ever potent UWR Planeswalker Control. There is nothing worse than a Gideon stale mate for this deck. Especially when they Day of Judgment during it. So throw these babies in and call out Gideon, Jace, Elspeth, or Ajani and you should be free to go.
Great Sable Stag you definitely Side in for Jund, as they can’t do anything about it, short of lightning bolts and siege-gang commanders. The only creatures that can block it in jund are the bloodbraid elves and Siege-Gang Commanders.
This is all in all a very fun deck to play. I would recommend testing it out for yourself and tweaking it to your hearts desire to where it fits your metagame needs.
