In high-power and competitive Commander, converting combat damage directly into a wide board state is one of the most reliable ways to pressure the table. On Moxfield’s deckbuilding charts, few legends weaponize the combat step as explosively as Tana, the Bloodsower.
As a Gruul commander with the highly versatile Partner mechanic, Tana features Trample and a powerful combat trigger: whenever she deals combat damage to a player, you create that many 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. By leveraging power-buffing equipment, aggressive anthems, and Gruul’s signature extra-combat spells, Tana quickly scales from a minor nuisance into an unstoppable token-generating army that overruns defenses.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Tana list, detailing how to turn raw combat damage into a crushing board presence.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with Tana requires quickly establishing a way to increase her power and guarantee she can push combat damage past opposing blockers.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Deploy fast mana dorks and early-game equipment like Skullclamp or Shadowspear. Your goal is to prepare the board to immediately enhance Tana’s damage output the moment she resolves.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Cast Tana, the Bloodsower. Equip or buff her to increase her power, then swing at the most vulnerable opponent to generate a swarm of Saproling tokens.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Execute game-ending overrun effects or string together extra combat phases. Use your massive army of tokens to fuel utility sacrifices, draw cards, or swing for lethal across the entire table.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Blood-Sown Synergy
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Tana by pairing her with efficient equipment, token-scaling anthems, and extra combat engines.
Stoneforge Mystic / Sword of Feast and Famine
The premier equipment tutor package. Getting Sword of Feast and Famine onto Tana not only increases her power by +2/+2 (allowing her to generate more tokens) and grants valuable protection, but it also untaps all your lands when she connects, letting you immediately cast the spells she helped you draw.
Beastmaster Ascension / Shared Animosity
Unmatched damage scaling. Because Tana creates multiple tokens upon dealing damage, attacking with those tokens on the following turn easily triggers Beastmaster Ascension. Shared Animosity scales even faster, giving your attacking Saprolings a massive power boost based on the number of other attacking Saprolings on the board.
Karlach, Fury of Avernus / Moraug, Fury of Akoum
The extra combat engines. Having an additional combat phase means Tana can attack, generate a wave of tokens, and then immediately attack again in the same turn—often with those newly created Saprolings now ready to benefit from passive field buffs.
Ohran Frostfang / Toski, Bearer of Secrets
The ultimate card-draw engines for wide boards. These creatures turn every single unblocked Saproling token into direct card draw, ensuring your hand remains fully stocked as you continue to expand your board state.
3. Copy & Paste Tana, the Bloodsower 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Tana, the Bloodsower
1 Anax, Hardened in the Forge
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Beast Within
1 Beastmaster Ascension
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Castle Garenbrig
1 Chaos Warp
1 Chthonian Nightmare
1 Cinder Glade
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Crop Rotation
1 Cryptolith Rite
1 Deflecting Swat
1 Delighted Halfling
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dockside Extortionist
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Empire at War
1 Eternal Witness
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fire Covenant
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Gamble
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Heroic Intervention
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jedit Ojanen, Mercenary
1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Petal
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Luxury Suite
1 Mana Confluence
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
1 Mount Doom
1 Nature's Lore
1 Noxious Revival
1 Ohran Frostfang
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Parallel Lives
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Plaza of Heroes
1 Polluted Delta
1 Professional Face-Breaker
1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
1 Pyroblast
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Reanimate
1 Rith's Grove
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Shadowspear
1 Shared Animosity
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Spire Garden
1 Stomping Ground
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Stranglehold
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Sylvan Library
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
1 Talisman of Impulse
1 Tarnished Citadel
1 Three Visits
1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Triumph of the Chordes
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wild Growth
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
3 Forest
2 Mountain
Summary: Flood the Red Zone
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Tana, the Bloodsower because she converts successful combat pressure into immediate, compounding card and mana advantage. By keeping her equipped and protected, you ensure that every swing forces your opponents into difficult blocking situations while your army of Saprolings grows out of control. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, cultivate your battlefield, and claim victory at your next Commander pod.
