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8 months ago  ::  Oct 06, 2012 - 10:43PM #11
Sleeping
Date Joined: Sep 23, 2011
Posts: 4,302
I honestly think you should stay out of ramp beyond mana dorks in an aggressive deck like this. Only play stuff like Arbor Elf (who also works with Overgrown Tomb by the way) that you can stick a Rancor on, or buff with scavenge or Beastmaster.
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8 months ago  ::  Oct 07, 2012 - 4:15PM #12
morticianjohn
Date Joined: Jun 14, 2006
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I would try to stay away from defenders if all possible. Wild beastmaster needs you to have plenty of attacking creatures and plan A (make a bunch of saprolings with korozda guildmage and scavenge the creatures) is a situation that you can't always count on. Even if you have 4 guildmage and 4 beastmaster and 4 dreg mangler (probably the best scavenge option for this scenerio) you would need a near perfect draw to pull off something like Turn 1 arbor elf , turn 2 dreg mangler , turn 3 korozda guildmage , turn 4 wild beastmaster , turn 5 sac dreg mangler get 3 saprolings, turn 6 scavenge then swing for 30.

I'm not saying to scrap the idea. The good news is that even though it's a slow process these are all things you're going to want to do anyway. Turn 2 dreg mangler is a pretty awesome threat on it's own and korozda guildmage has a great board presence allowing you to get value out of any targetted removal they try to point at your creatures. The one card that really needs support in this decklist to make it work is wild beastmaster which is pretty bad unless she's put in the right situation (without any pumps she's a 3 man 1/1 with battle cry essentially).

Costs to scavenge 0 mana for 1/1, 3 mana for 2/2 (on less than efficient creatures), 4 mana for 3/3 (on a 6 mana flier), 5 mana for 3/3 (dreg mangler, good card), 6 mana 5/5 (another good card deadbridge goliath . So far the decklist would look something like

4 - arbor elf
4 - slitherhead (not really a great option but I guess not bad for a beastmaster decklist)
4 - korozda guildmage
4 - dreg mangler
4 - deadbridge goliath
4 - wild beastmaster
1 - golgari decoy (not big on him but he can help to push through damage since wild beastmaster doesn't provide trample)

That is already 24 creatures which is basically what you want for a decklist like this. You can mess with the numbers a bit if you want strangleroot geist or some other efficient beaters. Maybe something that gives you multiple bodies like spider spawning or moan of the unhallowed , or Garruk if you have him.

Beyond that you might want some removal like golgari charm (though less good due to all the 1/1 creatures you're playing but there is some versatility), or some grisly salvage , or some pump like rancor in case you don't have the mana to scavenge.

I hope I'm not coming off mean, there is just so many different directions you could go with this deck. You could go beatdown with dryad militant , strangleroot geist , and rakdos cackler to make wild beastmaster a big finisher with some cheap pump spells like rancor or giant growth but that would exclude the scavenge theme which is slower to set up. Also you could go more of a "rock" style deck which is slower and could make good use of the scavenge mechanic but wouldn't really use a card like wild beastmaster all that much. The cards seem to have good synergy guildmage, beastmaster, scavenge but the decklist plays out so slowly I fear that it won't be fun even for casual games..... I guess it depends on your group. How much mass removal do you guys play?
Don't be too smart to have fun
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8 months ago  ::  Oct 07, 2012 - 8:30PM #13
Aaroc
Date Joined: Sep 20, 2012
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Yeah, while it seems like a really cool idea, the whole thing will be much too slow to actually get off. I think the Wild Beastmaster really belongs more in a deck full of other weenies and pump spells like Rancor and Giant Growth
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8 months ago  ::  Oct 07, 2012 - 9:00PM #14
Sleeping
Date Joined: Sep 23, 2011
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I think it's fine to play Beastmaster, you just have to focus on an aggressive creature base and ignore things like Death's Presence .
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