Kodama of the West Tree turns modified creatures into both evasive attackers and land acceleration. Your modified creatures gain trample, and each one that deals combat damage to a player lets you search for a basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Equipment, Auras you control, and counters can all qualify a creature as modified, giving several deck styles access to the engine.
Counter decks can use cards such as Rishkar, Peema Renegade to modify multiple creatures, then attack with a team that now has trample. Equipment decks can achieve the same result through attached gear. The search triggers for each qualifying creature that connects, so several smaller attackers can produce more lands than one large creature dealing the same total damage.
The extra lands help cast larger threats, pay equip costs, or support another round of creature development. Landfall payoffs such as Tireless Provisioner can also reward the searched lands entering, linking a counters or Equipment plan to a second source of resources. You need enough basic lands in the library for repeated searches to remain productive.
Kodama is not automatically modified just because it grants abilities to your other creatures. It needs its own counter, Equipment, or qualifying Aura to receive trample and generate a search from its combat damage. Build with ways to modify creatures efficiently, then use trample to convert their improved stats into both damage and lasting mana development.
