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summoner's pact seems way better than fauna shaman. It nets you mana (obivous), draw (don't know what strikes your fancy ... regal force ? nantuko cultivator ? primordial sage ?) and fierce empath (doubleplusgood). Paying the 4 mana upkeep shouldn't be an issue at all.

Pact worked very well though when I did my tinkering with food chain a few years ago. Like I said, it nets you mana, draw and even win condition (working with fierce empath). It works early to mid combo too. Chord of calling is very weak in comparison. It only works when you are in an awesome position (lots and lots of mana) anyway.

Haha, yes, extract is a funny little trick! Spoils should work well too.

Fauna shaman is very slow and it always has a bullseye on it. I've played the card lots of times, and only when I was very lucky I got to activate it. However, depends on meta. Maybe yours doesn't punish such plays as quickly as mine.

I might get around to tinker with my list again because of griffin. Maybe this time I'll be able to get decent speed and consistency.

If I do, I'll probably run ancient tomb s too for extra speed. Cloud of faeries might find a place too. Ah, so many ideas, so little deck space!

I didn't quite get it to click yet. It's still much too slow for my tastes. I expect solid turn 3 wins.

However, I found ancient tomb to be quite useful. It makes it very easy to cast early intuition and/or food chains. The 8 mana dudes are often not sufficient. Draws with no mana dude in hand are very slow, so the ancient tomb helps with this problem too.

What I don't like aboutb the concept is how food chain is basically a three card combo. You need chain, draw and a good mana source to get anywhere.

GSZ and Chord are really bad, I agree. Still think summoner's pact is quite good but I'm still deciding on the targets.

Isn't show and tell hurtful for the combo? It's a completely dead draw when in chain mode. Unless you play cloud of faeries or another "untap lands" critter. Then you could generate some mana to cast it.