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Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Legendary Creature — Plant Druid · {1}{G} · Green commander

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {3}{G}{G}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
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What Bristly Bill, Spine Sower actually does

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What a Bristly Bill, Spine Sower deck wants

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Best cards for Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

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Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not

  1. Exploration1 mana
  2. Explore2 mana
  3. Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
  4. Exploration Broodship1 mana
  5. Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
  6. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  7. Druid Class2 mana
  8. Icetill Explorer4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  2. Primordial Hydra2 mana
  3. Tifa Lockhart2 mana
  4. Voracious Hydra2 mana
  5. Mossborn Hydra3 mana
  6. Fireshrieker3 mana
  7. Kinetic Ooze1 mana
  8. Scythecat Cub2 mana

Mana from a NONLAND permanent — a commander that doubles nonland mana gets nothing from lands

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  3. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  4. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  5. Llanowar Elves1 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Sol Talisman0 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  3. Cankerbloom2 mana
  4. Thirsting Roots1 mana
  5. Evolution Sage3 mana
  6. Mossborn Hydra3 mana
  7. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  8. Fangs of Kalonia2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Shrink1 mana
  5. Naturalize2 mana
  6. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  7. Natural State1 mana
  8. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Simplify1 mana
  2. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  3. Coercive Portal4 mana
  4. Needle Storm3 mana
  5. Whirlwind4 mana
  6. Hurricane1 mana
  7. Worldslayer5 mana
  8. Corrosive Gale1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Elemental Bond3 mana
  8. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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