Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
A Naya landfall deck led by Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor, ramp aggressively, drop extra lands each turn, and smash opponents with animated lands and creature tokens from Omnath and Rampaging Baloths.
# set · ZNC · 2 decks
The first of the two deck seasonal releases. One Naya landfall deck, one Dimir Rogues deck built on mill.
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Mechanics
Landfall
Landfall triggers whenever a land enters under your control. Zendikar Rising leaned on it heavily, and the Naya deck plays extra lands per turn to fire it more than once.
Party
Party counts how many of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior and Wizard you control, up to four. The Dimir deck runs Rogues, so it gets partial credit constantly and full party occasionally.
Modal double-faced lands
Zendikar Rising printed spells with a land on the back face. They make a deck less likely to flood or stumble, and both precons include a few.
Kicker
Pay more as you cast a spell for a bigger effect. It shows up across the set as the scaling mechanic for the late game.
The set
Zendikar Rising Commander was the start of the current pattern, where a standard set brings two smaller Commander decks rather than a standalone batch of five. Both decks stayed close to what Zendikar has always been about: lands and the things that crawl between them.
Land's Wrath is the more Zendikar of the two. Obuun turns a land into a creature and landfall payoffs handle the rest, so the extra land drops matter twice. Sneak Attack goes in the other direction with evasive Rogues that mill opponents as they connect, which turns mill from an alternate win condition into a card draw engine.
The modal double-faced lands in both boxes are the quiet upgrade. A spell that can be played as a land removes the worst outcome in a singleton format, which is a hand with too few or too many lands. Several of those cards went on to be format staples well outside these decks.
Party is the mechanic that did not stick. Counting four specific creature types is fiddly, and outside a dedicated Rogue or Cleric build it rarely reaches full party. The Dimir deck gets partial credit often enough that it still works, but nobody has built a format around it since.
Where to start
Land's Wrath is the better shell to build on, because landfall support has only grown since 2020. Sneak Attack is more fun straight out of the box, though it puts a target on you the moment the table sees the mill.
The decks 2
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