NO Painter

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Painter's Servant on green does many things:
1) Grindstone mills their library
2) Natural Order can sacrifice a creature of any color to get a creature of any color (like Iona)
3) Iona, Shield of Emeria on green -> opponent cannot cast spells
4) Allosaurus Shepherd makes more things uncounterable
5) Green Sun's Zenith can fetch nongreen creatures


//Lands: 20
4 Ancient Tomb
9 Forest
3 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Urza's Saga
1 Dryad Arbor

//Spells: 10
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Once Upon A Time
3 Natural Order

//Creatures: 21
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Allosaurus Shepherd
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Painter's Servant
3 Tarmogoyf
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Outland Liberator
1 Endurance
1 Questing Beast
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Progenitus

//Artifacts: 5
3 Grindstone
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 Currency Converter

//Enchantments: 2
2 Sylvan Library

//Planeswalkers: 2
2 Karn, the Great Creator

//Sideboard: 15
3 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Force of Vigor
2 Choke
2 Endurance
1 Archon of Valor's Reach
1 Grindstone
1 Pithing Needle
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Ensnaring Bridge


Turn 2 Natural Order is possible:
T1 Forest Hierarch -> T2 Tomb NO -> Archon/Progenitus
T1 Forest GSZ for Dryad -> T2 Tomb NO -> Archon/Progenitus

Turn 3 Painter kill is possible:
T1 Grindstone T2 Painter T3 activate
T1 Saga T2 Painter T3 Saga -> Grindstone & activate
T1 Hierarch/GSZ T2 Painter + Grindstone T3 activate

By Turn 3 it can set up Painter + NO -> Iona on green (lock)

You could commit more resources to mana acceleration to speed up by another turn (Lotus Petal, Mox, ESG), but the added card disadvantage would make it too easy to get blown out by disruption and too hard to recover. This configuration should provide ways to recover or win through fair beatdown.


ThrabenU posted a video of a similar build in GW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthQ_2yrvBA

It splashes white for removal and SB hate. It also runs a more ambitious nongreen creature package, a more ambitious NO package (5 targets in the 75 for 2 NO), and a more ambitious Saga package (4 MD 1-ofs not including Grindstone or mana rocks). To support that it runs 4x Lotus Petal 4x Mox Opal and an unstable manabase full of nonbasics. I liked the main idea but thought some of it was too greedy at the expense of really bad topdecks and unstable mana.

The original decklist

//Lands: 18
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Urza's Saga
2 Ancient Den
2 Tree of Tales
2 Savannah
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Boseiju, Who Endures

//Artifacts: 16
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mox Opal
3 Grindstone
1 Retrofitter Foundry
1 Shadowspear
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
1 Springleaf Drum
1 Esika's Chariot

//Creatures: 14
1 Allosaurus Shepherd
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Painter's Servant
1 Outland Liberator
1 Endurance
1 Hullbreacher
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Plague Engineer
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Griselbrand

//Spells: 10
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Prismatic Ending
2 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Natural Order

//Enchantments: 2
2 Sylvan Library

//Sideboard: 15
3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Choke
2 Force of Vigor
2 Endurance
1 Archon of Valor's Reach
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Progenitus
1 Pithing Needle
2 Deafening Silence