Bess' Battling Babies

Commander / EDH Aggro Casual Counters GW (Selesnya) Stompy Tokens Tokens

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More 1/1s (17)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Broodhatch Nantuko
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Captain's Claws
• 1x Ghalta and Mavren
• 1x Haazda Marshal
• 1x Illustrious Wanderglyph
• 1x Launch the Fleet
• 1x Militia's Pride
• 1x Oketra's Monument
• 1x Rabble Rousing
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Scepter of Celebration
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Soul Foundry
• 1x Torens, Fist of the Angels
• 1x Wyrm's Crossing Patrol

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Control (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Caustic Wasps
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Stroke of Midnight

Land (35)

• 1x Bretagard Stronghold
• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Command Tower
• 11x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 10x Plains
• 1x Radiant Grove
• 1x Restless Prairie
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

Protection (9)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Grand Crescendo
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Ollenbock Escort
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Take Up the Shield

Buffs (6)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Cultivator of Blades
• 1x Elvish Herder
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Wild Beastmaster

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Awaken the Woods
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Heronblade Elite
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1x Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Poison Dart Frog
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder

+1/+1 (6)

• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Invigorating Surge
• 1x Luminarch Aspirant

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Other (3)

• 1x Primal Rage
• 1x True Conviction
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

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Lot's of 1/1s so Bess is big and swinging in with some big bad babies.

This deck is all about the early and mid game rush to slide in a win. Just cheap creatures with cool abilities so there are more +1/+1s when Bess, Soul Nourisher attacks. All it takes is a few 1/1s and you've already taken out the weakest link, so my hope is that she's movin fast enough to keep the game away from the late game stage as much as possible

Early Game

I might pop out a mana dork to get Bess, Soul Nourisher out turn two, but mostly waiting to get the commander out before putting any of the 1/1s down. There are a couple of protection artifacts/instants to hopefully keep her around until she's ready for that mid game

Mid Game

Just hard swinging in with attack triggers like Wyrm's Crossing Patrol and some global buffs like Wild Beastmaster, hopefully the deck is starting to take out players. There's a couple of ways to double the number of attacking 1/1s like Militia's Pride and Launch the Fleet that can secure a kill

Late Game

There's a few big ones for this stage but basically continuing what the deck was doing earlier, just bigger. A couple of examples would be Ghalta and Mavren, and Scute Swarm

Like all of my decks this one is a work in progress, so if you see anything that you think would make this better or if you find an area that it's lacking, I'd love to hear about it in the comments

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Date added	3 months
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Citizen 1/1 GW, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dinosaur X/X G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Forest Dryad 1/1 G, Gnome 1/1 C, Human 1/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 GW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Kithkin Soldier 1/1 W, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Pest 1/1 BG, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Vampire 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance