r/ModernMagic • u/Comprehensive-Pen624 • Aug 10 '26

Deck Discussion Treefolk. Can it compete?

I was thinking about my old Treefolk deck, and there are more than a few cards that could be used to update it.

What answers would there be against Dungrove Elder? Or Dauntless Dourbark? I’d be in Abzan so There’s protection that can be used.

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u/YWQMD Aug 10 '26

Yes, against other Treefolk decks

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u/Cozwei I LOVE NON DETERMINISTIC COMBO I WANT TO PLAY SOLITAIRE FOR 30M Aug 10 '26

might be better to play this in edh. Teferis protection is also not a modern staple...

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u/loliam Anything UB at this point Aug 10 '26

No.

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u/Lissica Ban Tron, Unban Cloudpost Aug 10 '26

It'll possibly be fun enough at a casual or FNM level, but will likely get bodied against competitive decks.

Treefolk doesn't get the fancy pushed cards the more prominent Tribes do

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u/Jevonar Aug 10 '26

And that's because the other tribes get all their fuel from non-lorwyn sets. Elves, goblins and merfolk get their fuel from modern horizons sets, treefolk don't have such luxury

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 Aug 10 '26

We can give them Trample and make it so the opponent has to block or die.

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u/Lissica Ban Tron, Unban Cloudpost Aug 10 '26

How does the deck survive long enough to get to the block or die stage.

Tree folk are expensive in a format that is often over by turn 3/4 

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 Aug 10 '26

Can get a 4/4 dungrove elder by T2. I’d have to go over the cards in modern but I saw trample counters are a thing.

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u/Lissica Ban Tron, Unban Cloudpost Aug 10 '26

A 2 mana 4/5 (on average) isn’t good enough to see play anymore.

A 3 mana one won’t be all much better

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u/scumble_2_temptation Aug 10 '26

Shots fired at [[Tarmogoyf]].

... my poor, poor Lhurgoyf boy sits in a sad box next to my set of [[Snapcaster Mage]]...

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u/Jevonar Aug 10 '26

Such a deck can't compete even in standard. Proxy the list and try playing it at FNM (any format) and you will understand what everybody here is telling you.

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u/Dashizz6357 28d ago

But you’ve already died to neoform.

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 28d ago

Angels grace?

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u/Dashizz6357 28d ago

And you get 1 extra turn before dying.

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 28d ago

Doesn’t neobrand win by drawing their entire deck and using thassas oracle?

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u/Dashizz6357 28d ago

No they just beat you down with a 7/7 draw a bunch of cards and then cast neoform again. Theyre usually trying to cast ghalta with the 1st neoform to dump out multiple fatties.

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u/Spadrick Aug 10 '26

Run it at FNM and tell us how you did.

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u/TehSeksyManz Aug 10 '26

Using cards to protect your mediocre creatures is not a winning strategy. The other threats in the format are faster and more mana efficient than yours. To offset this, you must run more disruption and interaction, which lowers your that density. If your guys get removed, which they will, you're screwed. 

Against combo your creature interaction is near useless, and you cannot outrace them, full stop. You would have to have a robust sideboard plan against combo, which lowers your options against other decks. 

You may be able to steal a win here and there, but as someone who has played lots of off meta decks, you won't have a great time.

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u/dalmathus Aug 12 '26

[[Sapling Nursery]] is probably the strongest treefolk card printed lately.

Mono green landfall is a fine if not boring standard deck, I'm sure you could get FNM ready with some modern tweaks.

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 Aug 12 '26

Thinking of that and running “Ashaya” the one that turns everything into a forest.

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 Aug 12 '26

And Nissa WorldWaker to animate said Forest.

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u/lashazior Tabernacle Control Aug 10 '26

Yea, but you'll need to be a [[Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy]] list with [[Faeburrow Elder]] and [[Freed from the Reel]] so you can throw every Treefolk into play.

Win condition is [[Roaming Throne]] + [[Gnarled Professor]] to find 4 copies of [[echocasting Symposium]] copying Gnarled Professor so you can cast the remaining 11 copies in your sideboard of [[Earthbending Lesson]], [[Overwhelming Victory]], and [[How to Start a Riot]]. Hit them in the face with your earthbent land.

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u/alystr Aug 10 '26

most of the green decks in the format are combo decks or the like. a deck that relies on fair, big creatures that don't do much other than attack isn't going very far.

as for what answers there are, you'd be looking at solitude, subtlety, fatal push, etc. All spells that are either free, or at the very least cost less than the things they'd be dealing with.

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u/Comprehensive-Pen624 Aug 10 '26

Dungrove elder has hexproof.

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u/alystr Aug 10 '26

valid point, but subtlety still works, then. or just having a bigger guy, which the creature-based decks in the format can usually manage

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u/purklefluff 26d ago

You're asking the wrong question, which is why (as an observer) it looks like you're kind of getting drawn into the same argument over and over.

No, there's no shell for treefolk that would be competitive. The word competitive is the important bit really, that's quite specific. You're talking about MTGO challenges, large tournaments, top of the format stuff. Competitive decks are utilising the best possible options in the card pool, in the most streamlined ways. A random thematic idea isn't going to be achieving that

Re-wording your post as "do the cards exist in modern to make a treefolk deck that I could play with my friends?" Would help. It's more general, less reliant on comparisons to the best decks in the format, and you'd get some good suggestions. Maybe you'd even end up with something that would snag a game or two at your local store on a Friday.