In all reality I'd have Vengevine s in place of Leatherback Baloths, but I'm not that fortunate. I'm also looking for something else to replace the Canopy Covers...any ideas?
I'd replace canopy cover with either vines of vastwood or gravity well, depending on whether you need protection vs. removal, or protection vs. flyers. Vines also has the added benefit of giving an additional +4/+4 to your stampedes.
Hi, my name is SQP and my hobby is breaking cards, especially bad cards. The worse a card is the more fun it is to break. My goal is to win a PTQ or GP using bad rares.dec, 1. to prove it can be done, and 2. for the lulz.
This one minor drawback is fixed easily by the simple fact that unless your deck is named "Sligh" (or you've mulliganed to 5) you have absolutely no business keeping a one land hand.
Well, I guess I'll have to call my deck sligh then. I can keep one-land hands consistenly, as long as my 1-drops can do something next turn, like play a sylvan ranger to make it a 2-land hand. Or better yet, when I DO get a 2-land opener, I can play elvish archdruid 2nd turn instead of a nest invader or something similar for 1G. I do think, however, that the treespeaker is good and I hated taking them out of my deck. Maybe I'll just replace some noncreature spells with the treespeakers and keep arbor elves too. . . . who knows? At this point, I'm changing this deck daily.
You are both rational and emotional. You value creation and discovery, and feel strongly about what I create. At best, you're innovative and intuitive. At worst, you're scattered and unpredictable.
Sligh is (was?) a red deck similar to red deck wins, but with mostly, if not entirely, one drop creatures and burn spells.
Hi, my name is SQP and my hobby is breaking cards, especially bad cards. The worse a card is the more fun it is to break. My goal is to win a PTQ or GP using bad rares.dec, 1. to prove it can be done, and 2. for the lulz.
@ Beebles: SQP is right. you shouldn't keep one land hands unless a) you have accelerants or b) you're hand is so full of the nuts and you're on the draw that your hand is one land away from being a "god hand". an easy way to fix it is to just make room for a few more lands.
@ Necro Ashes: You don't need Venge Vine. He really isn't an auto include in every green deck. green is lucky in that it doesn't need a bunch of mythics to be awesome. As for the canopys, definitely go with Vines of Vastwood.
I would have killed, literally ended someones life, to NOT have Arrogant Bloodlord riding a giant ant...
but where DID the other fork come from? Spoiler:Show
Lord_Zed: I was at my friends house when this happened. He's married and his wife was an excellent baker. She had baked a homemade apple pie the night before.
I was hungry, and my friend convinced me to try those low carb monster drinks. Before this day, I had never triend energy drinks before.
Boy was I in for a treat.
When I tried that first monster, I really enjoyed the flavor, but the taste that it left in my mouth wasn't so good. What was my solution? Drink another!
before I could finish drinking that 2nd monster, I felt it already kicking in(these drinks were not very far apart, we're talking minutes here) my friend decided that it was a good idea to whip out that fresh pie his wife made the night before. I didn't know what to do, since I felt incredibly invigorated, and at the same time, freaked out by the rush I was feeling, but I was also hungry, and my friend have me an entire plate with a fork and said "help yourself." He extended his saucer to me, and I cut him a piece of the pie and handed it to him, then I looked at the pie, noticed that the pie was in an aluminum holder, and dumped the entire pie onto my plate and started eating it with 2 forks. I don't know where I found that other fork, it probably came from my friend. Anyhow, his wife wasn't happy, and I was already in magical christmas land. 2 days later, I was in my friends bed and I slept for 14 hours.
His wife outlawed my from having any of her baked goods for a while(which sucked because I could just show up at there house, steal some sweets, and leave) and said I couldn't have any energy drinks at her house, unless under close watch.
My friend, on the other hand, had to take me out to a steak dinner, because apparently I won a bet where I climbed a tree and didn't die.
Sigh. Sorry about my not leaving up to my promise of posting a list by time I went to bed. In my insomnia, I getting distracted by TVTropes and staying up until 7:00 A.M. anyway.
Anyway, there was two things I've been meaning to talk about, JaketheLate. Well, one thing I've been "meaning to talk about" since I've already mentioned Autumn's Veil:
I'm kind of surprised you were using Quest for the Gemblades in your deck. It just seems kind of...mediocre. (Then again, I probably should speak considering I want to use some of the other Quests. Have you had positive experiences with it?
I guess my problem with Autumn's Veil is that even in sideboard, it has to compete with things like Vines of Vastwood, Great Sable Stag, Terra Stomper, Summoning Trap and some other things. I guess what bugs me about it if that it grant Protection from Blue and Black (but then it'd probably have to cost at least 3cmc, probably GGG) and that it can be countered itself (though that's hardly a concern) on top of being color specific while Vines of Vastwood isn't. It also doesn't help that even if it HAD given protection, it hitting all your creatures wouldn't save it from things like Consume the Meek or Consuming Vapors. Meh. I just have the same "meh" reaction about it that I have with Plummet despite having been excited about them when I first learned about them (and really liking the art on Autumn's Veil). Shrug.
At present, I'm still struggling to think up a mono-Green deck that can take advantage of Leyline of Sanctity. So far I think I've got two different decks and another deck that could potentially use both it and Omnath. Only problem thus far is that they just feel like they'd better being dual color decks (W/G for the token/Khalni one and R/G for the Protean one) and that mono-Green's only useful "buffing" enchantment will forever remain Beastmaster's Ascension.
Then again, I do suck at deck building having next to no experience at it (and still being currently able to get my copy of Magic Online working--that was $10 wasted).
*shrugs*
I'll try to post something before I go to bed tonight. Promise, especially since I'll be losing consciousness earlier than usual.
"Heroes are rare because heroism is so inherently stupid. In giving their all for the good of others, most die and are forgotten.
if you don't have a blue control heavy meta, then you should think about running something else.
As to the Gemblades, it synergizes with Warcaller, but what it mainly is is a combat trick. It's on the board, so instead of being able to mise a blocker from them, what happens is they don't want to block your little guys and risk getting beaten down. Can you imagine what it feels like to have Jar Jar Sphinx, and not being able to block a Llanowar Elves effectively?
I would never use it if I felt AT ALL like bringing the deck to anything more than FNM, but it's fun, cute, and requires people to think to play it/play against it. one game, I blocked a Kozilek, cracked the quest, and kicked two vines, killing Kozilek with a LLANOWAR ELVES! My opponent took a pic for facebook.
I would have killed, literally ended someones life, to NOT have Arrogant Bloodlord riding a giant ant...
but where DID the other fork come from? Spoiler:Show
Lord_Zed: I was at my friends house when this happened. He's married and his wife was an excellent baker. She had baked a homemade apple pie the night before.
I was hungry, and my friend convinced me to try those low carb monster drinks. Before this day, I had never triend energy drinks before.
Boy was I in for a treat.
When I tried that first monster, I really enjoyed the flavor, but the taste that it left in my mouth wasn't so good. What was my solution? Drink another!
before I could finish drinking that 2nd monster, I felt it already kicking in(these drinks were not very far apart, we're talking minutes here) my friend decided that it was a good idea to whip out that fresh pie his wife made the night before. I didn't know what to do, since I felt incredibly invigorated, and at the same time, freaked out by the rush I was feeling, but I was also hungry, and my friend have me an entire plate with a fork and said "help yourself." He extended his saucer to me, and I cut him a piece of the pie and handed it to him, then I looked at the pie, noticed that the pie was in an aluminum holder, and dumped the entire pie onto my plate and started eating it with 2 forks. I don't know where I found that other fork, it probably came from my friend. Anyhow, his wife wasn't happy, and I was already in magical christmas land. 2 days later, I was in my friends bed and I slept for 14 hours.
His wife outlawed my from having any of her baked goods for a while(which sucked because I could just show up at there house, steal some sweets, and leave) and said I couldn't have any energy drinks at her house, unless under close watch.
My friend, on the other hand, had to take me out to a steak dinner, because apparently I won a bet where I climbed a tree and didn't die.
Ah, I see. I had suspected as much about the combat trick, though I must admit that I didn't see the synergy between Warcaller and Gemblades. That's quite ingenious for something that isn't a serious deck, I must say.
(Then again, I suppose I must also admit that I'm partial towards "tribal" decks as it is.)
Anyway, my computer sort of crashed (or did something weird at least) around midnight last night, so I decided to give it a break for a while. Then it took a while to finalize things, especially since I feel like as I said post before this one that I feel like Leyline would ultimately better in dual color decks. The only reason I bothered to finish, besides "promising", is because it seems like anything that with four Leyline of Vitality in the main deck can't lose to RDW or burn decks ever.*
Without further ado, I'll just post these decks that are probably still all over the place:
It feels like I should have slightly more Forests or only Forests if I'm using Howl. The two Overrun are there just because it seems odd to not have some type of Overrun effect in a token deck. Garruk Wildspeaker would probably be better, but he's doubtless more expensive and I'm pretty miserly.
Protean is basically immune to damage (which means he's basically indestructible versus red decks--he even makes Destructive Force weep) with Leyline of Vitality on the field. Might as well take advantage of that (Even if it would obviously be better with Red, as seen by having to use Predatory Urge and Master of the Wild Hunt to take advantage of Hydra. There also the only way to kill other creatures.)
I feel like Howl of the Night Pack would probably better here considering what I'm using the wolves for in this deck, but it's just funny to imagine accidentally decking yourself with Momentous Fall. It's not like it doesn't have its use, especially since at least one Hydra is going to get Day of Judgment or something else if it doesn't have Canopy Cover on it.
Not going to bother with a sideboard either of them considering I don't have money to actually play anyone outside of on Magic Online, which currently won't work for me. Hurray!
Hoarding Dragon has caught my eye, so I'll think of that Omnath deck later. I'll keep the one suggested in mind, though. Thanks.
*I'm sure both of these decks get destroyed by Pyromancer Ascension, though, which technically counts as burn deck as well.
"Heroes are rare because heroism is so inherently stupid. In giving their all for the good of others, most die and are forgotten.
I'd post better cards, but this is what I have on hand at the moment, so I'll build/improve off of this...
Silly mono green stompy deck could use improvement, I guess...
hm I'm guessing you're budget, so what I'd try for is some efficient tramplers like garruk's companion or one-sided shroud guys like sacred wolf I might also get just a few equipment, like trusty machety. something cheap to cast and equip, that'll make your mana guys into sufficient beaters. no more than 4 count
In all reality I'd have Vengevine s in place of Leatherback Baloths, but I'm not that fortunate. I'm also looking for something else to replace the Canopy Covers...any ideas?
garruk's companion in your deck isn't a good enough beater, he dies too easily and won't give as much utility as I'd like. if there were more stuff like nest invader I'd definately go for that, but the best things off the top of my mind are river boa and lotus cobra. if lotus cobra are reasonable definitely get him, he makes the deck incredibly fast.
I wouldn't do vines of the vastwood mainboard if possible, since it's not a threat by itself and isn't good enough if used only as pump. plus smart opponents will just start removing your guys on their turn so that the pump is pointless. leatherback baloth is much better than vines. I'd run llanowar elves over joraga treespeaker, that kind of ramp fits better into your curve and doesn't open you up to well-timed removal setting you back.
