Saproling Deck - Thelon and the Fun Guys
Well this deck started out as going to be a Thallid deck, so I started with the homelands cards just because I am old school and remember playing them back in the day. Turns out there are not enough of them for a commander deck, and I cannot see a legendary Thallid, so I go for a Fungus deck that produces Saprolings. So the first job is sort through the cards I have and I find I have the following as possible commanders
Thelon of Havenwood
Nemata. Grove Guardian
Rishkar, Peema Renegade
So I decide to go with Thelon which will make it a Golgari deck, this will allow me to have my Deathbloom Thallid in the deck, I add 5 land that produce black and green mana, so its only a splash of Black in an otherwise Green deck. (Note so far I have plaid two commander games with this deck and both times I had black mana when I needed it)
I have noticed that Thelon is a green card, but needs black to use one of its ability’s, that’s fair enough but then Thelon's Chant punishes anyone playing swamps, why would that be? I would have thought that the cant would have worked against a colour that was not part of Thelon, could it be that there is a case for Thelon been Green and white instead of Black or Chant effecting Plains?
Anyway my commander decks are made to have themes, this deck is Fungus and Saprolings, I am looking at Baron Sengir Vampire Deck, maybe a Werewolf deck I am not looking for decks that seem to have lost there flavour for fast acting and very strong decks
Having played with the deck twice I think it’s a power 5 when compared to the decks I was up against which were 7s. I did not win as it comes across as a slow harmless deck so I did not appear to be a threat so was not the first on out. So I am happy with the deck and will keep playing it. I do need to play it more before I make and changes to the deck. There are also two or three cards that give proliferate, for boosting counters on the fungus I did not get any out in time during the games so not sure if I need any more adding to the deck.
Deck List (current)
Thelon of Havenwood – Current commander
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade
- Psychotrope Thallid
- Dreampod Druid
- Forced Adaptation
- Raking Canopy
- Quest for the Gemblades
- Thallid Shell-Dweller
- Deathbloom Thallid
- Strength in Numbers
- Sprout
- Molder
- Hail Storm
- Elven Fortress – I think this is one of the cards that maybe cut from the deck
- Night Soil
- Spore Cloud
- Thallid
- Thelon's Chant
- Thorn Thallid
- Saproling Cluster
- Beastmaster Ascension
- Trudge Garden
- Second Harvest
- Life and Limb
- Spontaneous Generation
- Sporesower Thallid
- Savage Thallid
- Vitaspore Thallid
- Fungal Behemoth
- Sporoloth Ancient
- Utopia Mycon
- Sprout Swarm
- Rot Shambler
- Boseiju Reaches Skyward
- Moldgraf Scavenger
- Green Sun's Twilight
- Audacity
- Dryad's Revival
- Jolrael's Favor
- Howling Mine
- Contagion Engine
- Nevinyrrals Disk
- Yavimaya Sapherd
- Verdant Force
- Verdant Embrace
- Undercellar Myconid
- Tukatongue Thallid
- Thelonite Hermit
- The Weatherseed Treaty
- Tendershoot Dryad
- Sporogenesis
- Sporeweb Weaver
- Sporemound
- Spore Swarm
- Scatter the seeds
- Sarpadion Empires Vol VII
- Saproling Symbosis
- Saproling Migration
- Saproling Infestation
- Saproling Burst
- Overgrown Armasaur
- Nemata. Grove Guardian
- Mycoloth
- Jade Mage
- Fungal rebirth
- Fists of Ironwood
- Fertile Imagination
- Bramble Elemental
- Ferral Thallid
- Elvish Farmer
- Havenwood Battleground
- Hollow Trees
- Urza's Mine
- Urza's Power Plant
- Urza's Tower
- Treetop Village
- Rushwood Grove
- Hickory Woodlot
- Tranquil Thicket
- Mosswort Bridge
- Slippery Karst
- Fertile Thicket
- Tree of Tales
- Hidden Nursery
- Karn's Bastion
- Jungle Hollow
- Golgari Rot farm
- Foul Orchard
- Darkmoss Bridge
- Golgari Guildgate
- Forest x 10
Cards under consideration to be added to the deck
- Fungal Bloom
- The Skullspore Nexus
- The Mycotyrant – Possible alternative commander
- Sporecrown Thallid
- Sporesower Thallid
- Mirkwood Bats
- Harvest Season
- Eldrazi Monument
There are lots of other artefacts and land one could add, Command tower, Sol ring, wooden sphere, library of leng, Feldons cane, to name just a few.