Chaining continuous free permanent drops directly from your hand whenever any permanent enters the battlefield breaks the fundamental resource limits of Magic: The Gathering. On Moxfield’s high-power and competitive charts, few partner commanders generate as much unstoppable value acceleration as Kodama of the East Tree.
As a Mono-Green () Partner legend costing six mana (), Kodama triggers whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control. If that permanent was not put onto the battlefield with Kodama’s ability, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield with a equal or lesser mana value. When paired with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces to command a flexible Simic () shell, cloning Kodama creates a double trigger loop that turns simple bounce lands like Simic Growth Chamber into immediate infinite mana, infinite land-drops, and total library deployment.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Kodama & Sakashima list, detailing how to turn single land drops into infinite permanent cascades.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with Kodama requires a deck structure dense with bounce lands, high-impact permanent payloads, clone effects, and blue protection spells.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Ramp aggressively using classic green dorks and search spells like Delighted Halfling, Three Visits, and Sol Ring to reach six mana ahead of schedule.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Deploy Kodama of the East Tree followed by Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (copying Kodama). Drop bounce lands to trigger double Kodama cascades, emptying your hand of lands and threats for zero mana.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Execute an infinite bounce loop with bounce lands or Field of the Dead token generation, deploying your entire deck onto the battlefield and closing out the game with lethal tramplers or infinite draw.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Ancient Forest Assembly
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Kodama by pairing his permanent-drop triggers with clone multipliers, bounce land combos, and stack-protection density.
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
The ultimate Partner engine. Sakashima bypasses the „legend rule,“ allowing her to enter as a exact copy of Kodama of the East Tree. With two Kodamas on the battlefield, every single permanent entry triggers two independent cascade drops, enabling instant infinite loops with bounce land mechanics.
Simic Growth Chamber / Guildless Commons
The primary infinite loop catalysts. When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield under dual Kodama control, its own ETB returns itself to your hand while both Kodama triggers resolve. Dropping the land right back into play with the second trigger creates an infinite loop of land entries, yielding infinite mana and infinite landfall triggers.
Field of the Dead / Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Massive token engines and high-mana anchors. Field of the Dead turns every land cascade into additional Zombie token entries, which in turn trigger Kodama to drop even higher-cost non-land permanents from your hand completely for free.
Fierce Guardianship / Force of Will
Essential stack defense. Because Kodama represents a six-mana investment that completely dominates the board once active, maintaining zero-mana counter-magic protects your commanders from targeted exile and destruction spells.
3. Copy & Paste Kodama & Sakashima 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 2 Commanders and 98 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Kodama of the East Tree
1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
1 Beast Within
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Brainstorm
1 Breeding Pool
1 Caretaker's Talent
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Commandeer
1 Crop Rotation
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Deflecting Swat
1 Delighted Halfling
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dockside Extortionist
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Esper Sentinel
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Field of the Dead
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Finale of Devastation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Force of Will
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Gamble
1 Generous Gift
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Guildless Commons
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jeska's Will
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Confluence
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mental Misstep
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Nature's Lore
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Plaza of Heroes
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Professional Face-Breaker
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Rhystic Study
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Sol Ring
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
1 Spectator Seating
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swan Song
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Taiga
1 Talisman of Curiosity
1 Three Visits
1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
1 Tropical Island
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
5 Forest
4 Island
Summary: Cascading Forest Dominance
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Kodama of the East Tree because he turns basic land drops into immediate, high-mana permanent drops. By cloning Kodama and abusing bounce land triggers, you assemble unstoppable infinite combos that empty your hand directly onto the battlefield. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, unleash the East Tree, and dominate your next Commander pod.
