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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 1:17PM
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Okay so I've abandoned the Morbid-Sac idea after seeing three of them at a local FNM. So the new Idea is an Aura heavy deck. It'll be a slightly slow start, but we usually play 2up 2down at my local shop. Here is what I want, so far. Creatures Celestial Ancient  x4 Kor Spiritdancer  x4 Aura Gnarlid  x4 Auramancer  x4 Vigor  x1 Birds of Paradise  x4 Enchantments Felidar Umbra  x4 Bear Umbra  x4 Boar Umbra  x4 Spirit Loop  x4 Spells Fog  x4 Lands Selesnya Sanctuary  x4 Graypelt Refuge  x4 Forest  x10 Plains  x6 The use of the Selesnya Sanctuary is on purpose. It is a play for using Graypelt, sending it back to my hand. It's a potential 8 life, just for playing lands. A majority of the enchantments have totem armor, so that allows me the chance to survive some nice destroys. Fog gives me a early on defender, and if I play Kor Spiritdancer early on, she gives me quick draws and early buffing. I only own one Vigor, and really by the time he hits the feild he won't be needed... but it's nice to have on. Might replace him with a Gravity Well  for flyer protection. Otherwise, the birds are a decent defense if I enchant them instead.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 1:30PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2010
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I own a singleton Dowsing Shaman  that I keep trying to find a good use for... this looks like just the kind of deck he might be at home in.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 1:44PM
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I own a singleton Dowsing Shaman that I keep trying to find a good use for... this looks like just the kind of deck he might be at home in.
I thought about him, but realistically, he's a 8tap to return one enchantment. That's why I rolled four Auramancer
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 1:55PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2010
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You have a point; he's probably better for a singleton format like EDH where one needs multiple different ways of accomplishing the same task to get the same kind of redundancy you get running 4-ofs in a constructed deck. Have you thought about using Flickerform  s on your Auramancer s in order to get repeated use out of them? It also provides protection from removal, including board sweepers, providing you can leave the mana up for the ability.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 1:58PM
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My advice is to take a look at the posts about my enchantress deck in Verdentforce's Deck workshop thread. Especially the last post where I switched it to G/W. other then that my biggest suggestion is to swap Auramancers for Rofellos's Gift  if your not cocernd with sets. Ancestral mask  and Beastmaster's magemark  are also good picks.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 8:02PM
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What is your Budget? Do you have any Format or Legality requirements? The 8 Life trick is too slow and provides too little a pay off. So: - 4 Selesnya Sanctuary + 4 BrushLand  I dislike that none of your creatures (save Aura Gnarlid ) have evasion. I'm also unconvinced that you need a full playset of AuraMancer  's, and both Celestial Ancient and Vigor seem like they would take too long before having any kind of impact, so: - 4 Celestial Ancient + 4 ElderWood Scion  - 2 AuraMancer - 1 Vigor + 3 Silhana LedgeWalker  I run a Uril, The MistStalker  EDH deck, and I've found that the best Aura's to run are those which help you connect with your opponent. So: - 4 Felidar Umbra + 4 Rancor  - 4 Boar Umbra + 4 Pentarch Ward  With both Aura Gnarlid and Silhana LedgeWalker it might be fun to run Snake Umbra  .
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11 months ago ::
Jul 10, 2012 - 8:51PM
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Jan 28, 2012
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I'd be leaning to skip life gain in this case. it can swing the game in your favor, but it's kind of its own thing that doesn't really help the rest of your deck. when I built my version of this I opted for critters with the exalted ability (like the aven squire  and qasali pridemage  ) and auras that give abilities like battle mastery  . the aura gnarlid  doesn't care where he gets his buff from, amd double strike lets whatever you are attacking with kill fast.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 12, 2012 - 10:16PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 14, 2010
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I ran a Spirtdancer Aura deck for a long time it's a lot of fun and usually only works if you can get it off fast enough. I personally would say this deck needs 4 Rancor and 4 Hyena Umbra  because they are cheap costing aura's that you can load on your spirit dancer and further abuse her power. For even further card draw I would add Snake Umbra . Umbra mystic  is also really good combo with Rancor But I would leave that up to you because you might not be able to benefit from umbra mystic as much. I would drop some of the more expensive creatures because they are very slow try adding some smaller creatures to help you out in the begginng like Watchwolf  I LOVE this deck type and I had loads of fun with it. I ran it a little differently but those are my tips I would give you.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 13, 2012 - 1:01AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 13, 2012
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I agree with the above post, I run a similar deck to yours, (G/W) My favorite part about it is the 1 drop enchantments like rancor, spider umbra, hyena umbra I can stack on the spirit dancer and aura gnarlid multiples at a time rather then 1 boar ubra this turn then 1 drake umbra next turn.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 13, 2012 - 6:31AM
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Date Joined:
May 28, 2012
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Two quick suggestions: Pentarch Ward (with dancer out, it's draw two cards and protection from the required colour) and Grizzled Leotau  .
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