Deck the Walls this Xmas 2019 mtg pauper

There are many ways to get mana ramp with green. Using wall/defender ramping is one I haven't come across before I stumbled across it. It works a lot like the (Priest of Titiania) + (Elvish Archdruid) combo, but with better defense. Its weakness, blocking, is its strength. However, an elf deck has a problem to, and that is toughness. Yet, Elvish Archdruid is also a rare, so it can't be played in the situation with this deck.

Lands	Wall Ramp	Monsters	0-1 Mana Walls
21 Forests	4 Axebane Guardian	4 Oakgnarl Warrior	4 Shield Sphere
	4 Overgrown Battlement	4 Rootbreaker Wurm	3 Traproot Kami
		2 Ulamog's Crusher
	Instant	4 Vulpine Goliath	2-3 Mana Walls
	Deglamer		2 Glade Watcher
			2 Wall of Tanglewood
	Sorcery		2 Grave Bramble
	Gleeful Sabotage
			4 Mana Walls
			2 Carnivorous Plant

Commander Riku of Two Reflections

Land Total - 36	Activate Landfall - 11	This Is War!
Basic - 24	Cultivate	Instants and Sorceries
9 Forest	Kodama’s Reach	Artful Dodge
9 Island	Mercurial Chemister	Control Magic
6 Mountain	New Frontiers	Counterspell
	Nissa’s Pilgrimage	Distortion Strike
NonBasic - 12	Prosperity	Dynacharge
Command Tower	Reverberate	Infiltrate
Evolving Wilds	Seek the Horizon	Gigantiform
Frontier Bivouac	Sensei’s Divining Top	Overwhelming Stampede
Grand Coliseum	Skullclamp	Stoic Rebuttal
Izzet Boilerworks	Twincast	Unsummon
Mana Confluence		70
Path of Ancestry	More Obscene Ramp - 6
Reliquary Tower	Birds of Paradise	Creature & Creature Like
Rupture Spire	Budoka Gardener	Awakening Zone
Simic Growth Chamber	Skyshroud Ranger	Creeper Hulk
Terramorpic Expanse	Sakura-Tribe Scout	Gigantomancer
Transguild Promenade	Walking Atlas	Hordeling Outburst
	Sol Ring	Kiln Fiend
Landfall Cards - 5	17	Mitotic Slime
Avenger of Zendikar	Too Much in Hand? - 2	Rite of Replication
Baloth Woodcrasher	Reliquary Tower (land)	Thopter Assembly
Eternity Vessel	Spellbook	78
Oran-Rief Hydra	Library of Leng
Rampaging Baloths	19
41	60

Tutors:	Resurrect Riku:
Mwonvuli Beast Tracker	Evolution Charm
Fierce Empath	Nature’s Spiral
Green Sun’s Zenith	Regrowth
	Wildwood Rebirth
Board Cleaning:
By Force	Alternate Win Schemes:
Tranquility	Biovisionary+Mirage Mirror+copycat
	Molten-Tail Masticore
Copycats:	Liege of the Tangle
Clever Impersonator	99 +1 for Riku
Clone
Phyrexian Metamorph
Stunt Double
Heavy Beaters:
Bellowing Tanglewurm
Moldgraf Monstrosity
Soul of the Harvest
Stonehoof Chieftain
91

Deck The Walls ~ 2018 ~ Pauper

Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian, along with the 15 other defenders, reel in the mana to cast the fat creatures.   Carnivorous Plant and Grave Bramble add some prevention with their power.  As far as mana ramping goes, respectfully, I think the Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian combo is far better than the similar Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid combo goes, because the defenders usually offer a better trade off.  They are both harder to kill, and better at defense, such that one can have some time to bring out the beat sticks better than Elves do.

The defenders, or "Walls," is how this deck got its name.  It is a spoof off of the Christmas song, "Deck the Halls."

Lands	0 - 1 Mana Defender	3 - 4 Mana Defender 8	Fat Creatures
23 Forests	4 Shield Sphere	4 Axebane Guardian	4 Oakgnarl Warrior
	3 Traproot Kami	2 Carnivous Plant	4 Rootbreaker Wurm
		2 Grave Bramble	2 Ulamog's Crusher
	2 Mana Defender	46	4 Vulpine Goliath
	2 Glade Watcher		60
	4 Overgrown Battlement
	2 Wall of Tanglecord
	38

“Say yer prayers varmint!” ~ Pauper

Strategy:

Mana ramp creatures with defender, such as Overgrown Battlement, and Axebane Guardian to cast power 5 creatures with trample, such as Scuzzback Marauders, Molder Beast, and Tajuru Pathwarden.  Then, pump with Assault Strobe, Double Cleave, Phytoburst.

Land 23	0 mana	1 mana	2 mana	5 mana
7 Forest	2 Shield Sphere	4 Assault Strobe	4 Phytoburst	4 Scuzzback Marauders
4 Gruul Guildgate	25	2 Torpid Moloch	4 Double Cleave	4 Molder Beast
Jund Panorama		31	4 Overgrown Battlement	4 Tajuru Pathwarden
5 Mountain			43	Lightning Shrieker
2 Naya Panorama				60
4 Rugged Highlands
			3 mana
			4 Axebane Guardian
Sideboard			47
3 Stomper Cub
3 Garruk's Companion
2 Shield Sphere
2 Torpid Moloch
3 Lightning Shrieker
Mountain
Forest

CMDR Ezuri n' Elves

This deck is highly dependent on Elves, mana ramp, and drawing cards.

There are 27 elves (including Ezuri [They aren’t all pure mana rampers]),  27 mana, and additional 9 on top of that totaling 63 (27+27+9) possible cards boosting cards that should reduce board wipes to be less of a problem.  Maybe it is OCD, but I love to create symmetry in my decks.  Hence, 99 the number of cards in a commander deck is divisible by nines, a sign of good design.

36 Elves, and/or Draw, and/or Mana Ramp and/or Manaboost:

Arbor Elf – elf + ramp                          Bear Umbra - boost

Bequeathal - draw                                 Boreal Druid – elf + ramp

Copperhorn Scout – elf                         Elfhame Sanctuary - draw

Elvish Archdruid – elf + ramp              Elvish Lyrist - elf

Elvish Mystic – elf + ramp                    Elvish Piper – elf

Elvish Scrapper – elf                              Ezuri, Renegade Leader

Fecundity - draw                                    Fierce Empath - elf

Fyndhorn Elves –elf + ramp                  Gaea’s Herald – elf

Glissa Sunseeker - elf                             Greenseeker – elf + draw

Heritage Druid – elf + ramp                    Imperious Perfect - elf

Joraga Treespeaker – elf + ramp            Llanowar Elves – elf + ramp

Mana Reflection – boost                        Nissa’s Pilgrimmage - draw

Priest of Titania – elf + boost                 Primordial Sage - draw

Seeker of Skybreak - elf                         Skullclamp – draw

Sylvan Ranger – elf + draw                    Taunting Elf – elf

Thornweald Archer – elf                        Wellwisher – elf

Wren’s Run Packmaster – elf                 Wren’s Run Vanquisher - elf

Wolf-Skull Shaman – elf                        Yavimaya Elder - draw

18 Big Creatures:

Argothian Wurm                                    Bellowing Tanglewurm

Creeperhulk                                            Engulfing Slagwurm

Essence of the Wild                               Gaea’s Revenge

Giant Adephge                                       Gigantomancer

Khalni Hydra                                         Mitotic Slime

Moldgraf Monstrosity                            Pelakka Wurm

Soul of the Harvest                                 Terastodon

Terra Stomper                                       Thorn Elemental

Thunderfoot Baloth                               Vigor

Artifacts and Enchantments: 9

Swiftfoot Boots                                      Blanchwood Armor

Bower Passage                                      Dense Foliage

Eldrazi Conscription                              Exoskeletal Armor

Gigantiform                                            Ground Seal

Lurking Predators



Instant or Sorcery: 9

Dramatic Entrance                                   Fog

Windstorm                                              Unravel the AEther


Gleeful Sabotage                                    Green Sun’s Zenith

Harmonize                                              Overwhelming Stampede

Revive



Lands: 27

25 Forest

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

Wirewood Lodge (has lots of fantastic combos in an elf deck.)