Aerid Konstrari leads a Gruul artifact-count aggro deck. It piles up artifacts (Heartwood tokens, Treasures, Meteorites, Food, Stone Boulders and mana rocks), so Aerid's {6} activation both adds another Heartwood and gives her +X/+0 for every artifact, turning her into a huge flying threat. Heavy ramp feeds repeated activations. Payoffs turn the growing artifact count into damage, and a smaller landfall package that also makes Treasures and Food is being phased toward the artifact plan. How it wins: Aerid is pumped through her own activation, extra mana and haste or evasion granters into lethal commander damage in the air, with team-wide artifact pumps and direct damage from artifacts entering finishing off the table. Key roles: - Artifact token production: Aerid makes a Heartwood on entering, dying and activating, and these cards keep adding more artifacts to raise her pump and fuel the payoffs (Tenured Tethermage, Roxanne, Starfall Savant, Stone-Giant of High Pass) - Artifact-count payoffs: These cards convert the artifact count into burn, team-wide power with trample, or extra mana from artifact tokens (Reckless Fireweaver, Craterclaw Colossus, Roxanne, Starfall Savant) - Mana engine for activations: Ramp, Heartwood untapping and doubled token mana pay for Aerid's {6} activation more than once a turn and power out cost-reduced big creatures (Unwinding Clock, Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone, The Great Henge) - Commander damage amplifiers: These multiply or extend Aerid's hits through haste, doubled power, tripled damage, damage copied to every opponent and unblockability (Xenagos, God of Revels, Jeska, Thrice Reborn, Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar) - Protecting Aerid: Hexproof and indestructible tricks, redirection and recursion keep the commander attacking, and her death still leaves a Heartwood behind (Tamiyo's Safekeeping, Tyvar's Stand, Deflecting Swat) - Landfall subtheme: Fetching and extra lands trigger ping damage, Treasures and Food, which ties back into the artifact count (Tireless Provisioner, Koth, the Geomancer, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove)

Aerid Konstrari — Heartwood Colossus decklist

• The Great Henge
• Mind's Eye
• Chaos Warp
• Kenrith's Transformation
• Starstorm
• Deflecting Swat
• Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• Sword of Hearth and Home
• Conjurer's Closet
• Tenured Tethermage
• Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
• Gold Pan
• Arcane Signet
• Nature's Lore
• Cultivate
• Farseek
• Wood Elves
• Necklace of Girion
• Hexhaven Invigorator
• Samut, Hazoret's Champion
• Ghalta the Unstoppable
• Verdant Kraken
• Craterclaw Colossus
• Key to the Side-Door
• Face Yourself
• Marwyn, the Clearcutter
• Restore with Empathy
• Part in Friendship
• Fulminous Forte
• Budding Insurgent
• Koth, the Geomancer
• Stone-Giant of High Pass
• Snowslope Hunter
• Pia, Aether Ascetic
• Roiling Canopy
• Hobbit Hole
• 17× Forest
• Finale of Devastation
• Blasphemous Act
• Command Tower
• Kessig Wolf Run
• Wooded Foothills
• Karplusan Forest
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
• Tyvar's Stand
• Tireless Provisioner
• Guardian Project
• Unwinding Clock
• Garruk's Uprising
• Spelunking
• Chandra's Ignition
• Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• Return of the Wildspeaker
• Prismatic Omen
• Eldritch Evolution
• Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• Green Sun's Zenith
• Roxanne, Starfall Savant
• Beast Within
• Heroic Intervention
• Xenagos, God of Revels
• Reckless Fireweaver
• Great Furnace
• 8× Mountain
• Jeska, Thrice Reborn
• Slagwoods Bridge
• Rogue's Passage
• Trailblazer's Boots
• The One Ring
• Idol of Oblivion
• Stomping Ground
• Vesuva
• Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• Tome of Legends
• Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar