Mono Green
Landfall.

Open an example to see all seven cards, the decision and the first turns. Every hand uses cards from the preserved version.

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After a mulligan, draw seven again. Once you decide to keep, put one card on the bottom for each mulligan taken.

Your main deck

Your sideboard

A hand worth keeping

Look for 2-3 lands, an early play and ways to develop: Llanowar Elves or Chocobo, then Shared Roots / Ascension and a threat.

For tomorrow, I would avoid one-land hands that depend on Llanowar Elves, or hands full of expensive cards with no early plays. Before deciding on a mulligan, check whether you have green mana available right away.

IDEAL SEQUENCE, WITH NO OPPOSING ANSWERS

T1: Forest, Llanowar Elves.
T2: Forest, Ascension with three mana. Animate a land and search for Forest: you have three lands.
T3: three lands + Llanowar Elves pay for Icetill. Only then play Fabled Passage.

The animated land stays tapped if you tapped it to pay for Ascension. Llanowar Elves cannot produce mana on the turn it enters.

Another 12 examples with explanations: opening-hand examples. KEEP = keep your hand; MULLIGAN = shuffle it back and look for a better hand.

Ascension: text and rulings ↗

Icetill + Fabled

1. Play Fabled Passage.
First land entering.

2. Tap and sacrifice it; search for Forest.
Second land entering.

3. Play the same Fabled from your graveyard, using your additional land play.
Third land entering.

4. Sacrifice it again and search for Forest.
Fourth land entering.

FOUR LANDFALL EVENTS, TWO LAND PLAYS

The Forests you search for do not use up land plays. With one Icetill, you have two land plays in total on your turn, not two extra.

Resolve the triggers and mill one card for each land entering. To play a land again, it must be your main phase with an empty stack.

Icetill Explorer ↗

Do not crack them out of habit

Playing a fetch land gives you one land entering. Sacrificing it to search for Forest gives you another: you can save that second event for later.

With Nursery you get a token; with Chocobo you get a counter. If you need mana to develop your board instead, search for the Forest right away.

WITH ASCENSION: ANOTHER OPTION

You can animate a fetch land already on the battlefield. When you sacrifice it, it dies as a creature: earthbend returns it tapped; the land you searched for enters too. That is two new lands entering.

You cannot immediately sacrifice the fetch again after it returns tapped. Do not confuse this line with the two land plays from Icetill.

Earthbending: official rules ↗

Setting up lethal damage

Mightform doubles power whenever a land enters, until end of turn. A power of 4 becomes 8, then 16. Toughness does not double.

Choose a creature that can already attack. A freshly cast Mightform can boost your other creatures, but normally cannot attack. Warp costs {2}{G}, does not give haste, and exiles it at the beginning of the next end step.

Ouroboroid: play it before combat. Its ability distributes counters equal to its power as the ability resolves; that includes counters on itself.

Before attacking, check for trample: an active Ascension, Warg, or chapter III of Maduin. A huge creature without trample can be stopped by a token.

Mightform Harmonizer ↗

Ouroboroid ↗

Lumbering Worldwagon

When it enters, search for a basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped. You do not need to crew it for this effect.

It becomes an artifact creature until end of turn: its power equals the number of lands you control, and its toughness is 4. Crewing does not tap the wagon.

When it attacks, search for another basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped, before blockers. With five lands it is 5/4; after the search it becomes 6/4.

Creatures that just entered can crew. A wagon that just entered cannot attack without haste.

You can also crew during your opponent’s turn before blockers if the wagon is untapped. You must crew it again: the previous effect ends at end of turn.

Lumbering Worldwagon ↗

Esper Origins

FROM YOUR HAND: {1}{G}

Surveil 2: look at the top two cards, put any of them into your graveyard, and put the rest back on top in any order. You do not draw them. Then gain 2 life; Origins goes to your graveyard.

FROM YOUR GRAVEYARD: FLASHBACK {3}{G}

Cast it again: surveil 2 and gain another 2 life. Then it enters transformed as Esper Maduin 4/4, with a finality counter.

You can use flashback even if Icetill milled Origins directly. You do not have to cast it from your hand first. It is a sorcery: normally you cast it during your main phase with an empty stack.

Esper Origins / Maduin ↗

Maduin’s three chapters

TURN 4: ENTERS, CHAPTER I

Reveal the top card. If it is a permanent card, put it into your hand; otherwise it stays on top. Maduin is 4/4: it can block, but normally cannot attack yet.

TURN 5: CHAPTER II

At the beginning of your first main phase, after your draw, you get {G}{G}. Use it during that phase: you cannot save it for the next turn or for combat. Maduin can now attack.

TURN 6: CHAPTER III

The other creatures you control as it resolves get +2/+2 and trample until end of turn. Then sacrifice Maduin: finality exiles it. Maduin does not attack that turn.

The finality counter is separate from the lore counters: it does not make the Saga start at chapter II.

Maduin and Saga rules ↗

Ascension and Nursery

EARTHBENDER ASCENSION

When it enters, animate a land already on the battlefield and search for a basic land, which enters tapped. That basic land also starts its landfall count.

Each land entering adds a quest counter. Starting with the fourth, each land entering gives the chosen creature +1/+1 and trample. The counters stay; trample lasts until end of turn.

SAPLING NURSERY

It costs {6}{G}{G}, reduced by {1} for each Forest. With five Forests it costs {1}{G}{G}; with six it costs {G}{G}. Ba Sing Se and fetch lands are not Forests.

Each landfall trigger creates a 3/4 token with reach. Newly created tokens normally cannot attack immediately.

Ascension ↗

Sapling Nursery ↗

Lands and mana

Fabled Passage: search for a basic land, which enters tapped; then untap it if you control at least four lands. Count your lands after the search.

Elven Passage: pay 1 life and search for a basic land, which enters tapped. You can reveal an Elf from your hand or choose one you control to untap it. Llanowar Elves works.

Escape Tunnel: its second ability makes a creature with power 2 or less unblockable. Let it resolve before making the creature bigger: it will remain unblockable that turn. This mode does not search for a land.

Ba Sing Se: enters untapped if you control a basic land. To earthbend, pay {2}{G} and tap Ba Sing Se: it cannot also pay part of its own activation cost.

Demolition Field: produces colorless mana. To activate it, pay {2}, tap it and sacrifice it; your opponent must have a nonbasic land you can legally target.

Fabled Passage ↗

Escape Tunnel ↗

Your answers

Warg Tactics - {1}{G}: destroys a creature with flying, or gives one of your creatures a +1/+1 counter, trample and hexproof. Respond to targeted removal before it resolves.

Meltstrider - {G}: the Aura gives +0/+2; when it enters, it makes your creature fight up to one opposing creature. Check power, damage and possible opposing responses. It does not give trample.

Webstrike - {G}{G}: a 3/3 with reach. Or cycle it for {X}{G}{G}: destroy an artifact/enchantment with mana value exactly X, then draw. Tablet needs X=3: you pay five mana.

Leatherhead: must hit the player to destroy an artifact/enchantment. You can remove a +1/+1 counter instead of its hexproof counter, if it has one.

Surrak: lets you draw when your opponent targets your creatures or creature spells; it does not stop their answer from resolving.

Lantern: exiles one card when it enters. Tap + sacrifice exiles the opposing graveyard; {1} + tap + sacrifice draws a card. These are alternative uses.

Warg Tactics ↗

Webstrike Elite ↗

Who you want to face

Mono-Green: what matters is who starts stronger and who disrupts the opposing engine.

Dimir Midrange: generally good for the archetype; do not put everything into one creature.

Izzet Spellementals: unfavorable. Sunderflock turns the board around.

Selesnya Landfall: close; their removal helps in the mirror.

Azorius Momo / fliers: difficult before sideboarding. Warg and reach help.

4C / Jeskai control: depends on board wipes and answers to Nursery.

Orzhov Lifegain: generally good; power doubling can outpace the life they gain.

Fast combo: difficult; you need pressure and cannot afford much hesitation.

Competitive context: Karsten, 3 September ↗

Sideboard: ground and mirror

FAST GROUND AGGRO

IN: 2 Meltstrider, 2 Webstrike Elite

OUT: 2 Nursery, 1 Ouroboroid, 1 Mightform

Stabilize the board before trying to set up a huge attack. Webstrike is a two-mana blocker; Meltstrider removes a threat if the fight is safe.

MONO-GREEN / SELESNYA LANDFALL

IN: 3 Mossborn Hydra, 2 Meltstrider

OUT: 2 Esper Origins, 1 Shared Roots, 1 Worldwagon, 1 Nursery

Hydra adds pressure; Meltstrider can disrupt Icetill or Mightform. Against Erode, consider Warg: to add two, you can remove another 2 Esper Origins from this plan.

Against Lifegain, keep Mightform. If their attackers fly, use the fliers plan on the blue-decks section instead.

Sideboard: Izzet and Dimir

IZZET SPELLEMENTALS

IN: 2 Warg Tactics, 1 Surrak, 1 Soul-Guide Lantern

OUT: 2 Esper Origins, 1 Worldwagon, 1 Mightform

Apply pressure. Lantern can empty their graveyard before they use the cost reductions on Crab / Hearth: doing it after the spell is cast does not increase the cost they have already paid.

DIMIR MIDRANGE

IN: 2 Warg Tactics, 1 Surrak, 2 Webstrike Elite

OUT: 1 Worldwagon, 1 Ouroboroid, 2 Shared Roots, 1 Mightform

Surrak punishes targeted answers. Warg protects a creature or removes a flier; Webstrike can block to stop easy card draws.

AZORIUS MOMO / FLIERS

IN: 2 Warg Tactics, 2 Webstrike Elite

OUT: 1 Ouroboroid, 1 Nursery, 2 Shared Roots

These suggestions are based on what the cards do and on your list, not plans tested over a sample of games.

Sideboard: control and combo

CONTROL WITH BOARD WIPES

IN: 2 Leatherhead, 1 Surrak, 1 Nursery

OUT: 1 Meltstrider, 2 Mightform, 1 Shared Roots

Do not play every threat if your board already applies enough pressure. Save something to rebuild with. Nursery and animated lands can force them to have different answers.

KEY ARTIFACTS / ENCHANTMENTS

IN: 2 Webstrike Elite, 3 Leatherhead

OUT: 1 Meltstrider, 2 Mightform, 2 Esper Origins

Webstrike provides an answer from your hand; Leatherhead needs to hit the player. The second plan is for targets that are central to their strategy, not an incidental artifact.

COMBO

Keep Mightform and a fast curve. If the combo uses the graveyard: +1 Lantern, -1 Worldwagon. Bring in Warg only if it removes a relevant creature with flying.

Before you sit down

Bring: deck and sideboard kept separate, matching sleeves, dice, distinct counters, 3/4 Treefolk tokens, paper and a pen.

Every turn: Maduin’s chapter after the draw; how many lands you have played; landfall triggers and milling; Ouroboroid at the beginning of combat.

After each game: count the cards you sideboard in and out. Before the next match, restore the original 60. Follow the judge’s instructions on using your phone during the event.

Card texts checked on Scryfall on 10 September 2026. Tap names in the lists to open them. The rules come from the card texts; matchups and sideboard plans are reasoned advice for your version.

Official Magic rules ↗

Notes: Icetill, Mightform, Warp ↗

Notes: Earthbending and Ascension ↗

Notes: Esper Origins and Sagas ↗

Reference list: ice100, 6 September ↗