by ElspethFTW, Gaming Successfully Staff
The Legendary Dragons of Kamigawa are some of the more memorable cards from Champions of Kamigawa. Two of them are considered to be very good, two more of them are pretty good in Commander, but one has never really caught on as a Commander himself. This is the Green Dragon, Jugan, the Rising Star. His effect is good enough that he’s seen play as part of the 99 in some decks. But can you build around him?
Since Jugan’s ability is all about +1/+1 counters, you sort of want to go all out on this theme. Unfortunately, a lot of the best counter-abusing cards are in White. So in Green, you’ll want to take advantage of all of the token producers and use cards that can benefit from having a bunch of counters placed on them. On top of lots of ways to ramp your mana and create lots of tokens, there are plenty of ways to make your token army deadly.
Thanks to one TappedOut user with a decent Jugan Commander list, I was able to come up with this deck list below. Whereas the list I found focused primarily on tokens, I found other cards to blend the counter and token strategies in even better ways.
Commander
Jugan, the Rising Star 3ggg
Creatures (16)
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1g
1 Champion of Lambholt 1gg
1 Eternal Witness 1gg
1 Fertilid 2g
1 Lifeblood Hydra xggg
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer 2g
1 Wild Beastmaster 2g
1 Bloodspore Thrinax 2gg
1 Fangren Firstborn 1ggg
1 Forgotten Ancient 3g
1 Fungal Behemoth 3g
1 Ant Queen 3gg
1 Bane of Progress 4gg
1 Hydra Broodmaster 4gg
1 Rampaging Baloths 4gg
1 Avenger of Zendikar 5gg
Spells (45)
1 Hardened Scales g
1 Helix Pinnacle g
1 Earthcraft 1g
1 Regrowth 1g
1 Revive 1g
1 Sword of the Animist 2
1 Arachnogenesis 2g
1 Ashnod's Altar 3
1 Awakening Zone 2g
1 Beastmaster Ascension 2g
1 Blasting Station 3
1 Cultivate 2g
1 Deep Reconnaissance 2g
1 Harrow 2g
1 Journey of Discovery 2g
1 Kodama's Reach 2g
1 Nissa's Pilgrimage 2g
1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar 1gg
1 Search for Tomorrow 2g
1 Squirrel Nest 1gg
1 Beacon of Creation 3g
1 Explosive Vegetation 3g
1 From Beyond 3g
1 Harmonize 2gg
1 Hunting Wilds 3g
1 Into the Wilds 3g
1 Parallel Lives 3g
1 Seer's Sundial 4
1 Skyshroud Claim 3g
1 Doubling Season 4g
1 Eldrazi Monument 5
1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury 3gg
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter 2ggg
1 Nissa's Expedition 4g
1 Nissa, Worldwaker 3gg
1 Primal Vigor 4g
1 Restock 3gg
1 Caged Sun 6
1 Death's Presence 5g
1 Nissa's Renewal 5g
1 Akroma's Memorial 7
1 Boundless Realms 6g
1 Howl of the Night Pack 6g
1 Praetor's Counsel 5ggg
1 Decree of Savagery 7gg
Lands (38)
36 Forest
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Since Jugan’s ability is all about +1/+1 counters, you sort of want to go all out on this theme. Unfortunately, a lot of the best counter-abusing cards are in White. So in Green, you’ll want to take advantage of all of the token producers and use cards that can benefit from having a bunch of counters placed on them. On top of lots of ways to ramp your mana and create lots of tokens, there are plenty of ways to make your token army deadly.
Thanks to one TappedOut user with a decent Jugan Commander list, I was able to come up with this deck list below. Whereas the list I found focused primarily on tokens, I found other cards to blend the counter and token strategies in even better ways.
Commander
Jugan, the Rising Star 3ggg
Creatures (16)
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1g
1 Champion of Lambholt 1gg
1 Eternal Witness 1gg
1 Fertilid 2g
1 Lifeblood Hydra xggg
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer 2g
1 Wild Beastmaster 2g
1 Bloodspore Thrinax 2gg
1 Fangren Firstborn 1ggg
1 Forgotten Ancient 3g
1 Fungal Behemoth 3g
1 Ant Queen 3gg
1 Bane of Progress 4gg
1 Hydra Broodmaster 4gg
1 Rampaging Baloths 4gg
1 Avenger of Zendikar 5gg
Spells (45)
1 Hardened Scales g
1 Helix Pinnacle g
1 Earthcraft 1g
1 Regrowth 1g
1 Revive 1g
1 Sword of the Animist 2
1 Arachnogenesis 2g
1 Ashnod's Altar 3
1 Awakening Zone 2g
1 Beastmaster Ascension 2g
1 Blasting Station 3
1 Cultivate 2g
1 Deep Reconnaissance 2g
1 Harrow 2g
1 Journey of Discovery 2g
1 Kodama's Reach 2g
1 Nissa's Pilgrimage 2g
1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar 1gg
1 Search for Tomorrow 2g
1 Squirrel Nest 1gg
1 Beacon of Creation 3g
1 Explosive Vegetation 3g
1 From Beyond 3g
1 Harmonize 2gg
1 Hunting Wilds 3g
1 Into the Wilds 3g
1 Parallel Lives 3g
1 Seer's Sundial 4
1 Skyshroud Claim 3g
1 Doubling Season 4g
1 Eldrazi Monument 5
1 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury 3gg
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter 2ggg
1 Nissa's Expedition 4g
1 Nissa, Worldwaker 3gg
1 Primal Vigor 4g
1 Restock 3gg
1 Caged Sun 6
1 Death's Presence 5g
1 Nissa's Renewal 5g
1 Akroma's Memorial 7
1 Boundless Realms 6g
1 Howl of the Night Pack 6g
1 Praetor's Counsel 5ggg
1 Decree of Savagery 7gg
Lands (38)
36 Forest
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
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