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Oct 8, 2012 -- 10:11AM, Lobster667 wrote:

I only count 5 Token-producers in that deck. And 3 Populate effects (though one of them is repeatable).

My Rakdos deck I referred to in the other post:

Creatures (14, 9 Unleash):
Grim Rustabout x 2 (Unleash)
Gore-House Chainwalker x 2 (Unleash)
Rix Maadi Guildmage
Dead Reveler (Unleash)
Sewer Shambler x 2
Splatter Thug x 2 (Unleash)
Hellhole Flailer (Unleash)
Cobblebrute
Rakdos Ragemutt
Spawn of Rix Maadi (Unleash)

Other Spells (9, 5 removal):
Civic Saber
Ultimate Price x 2 (Removal)
Rakdos Keyrune
Stab Wound (Removal)
Auger Spree (Removal)
Traitorous Instinct
Explosive Impact (Removal)
Rakdos' Return

Lands (17):
Mountain x 8
Rakdos Guildgate
Swamp x 8

And I also lied about the deck's record; I did lose a game. I went 2-0, 2-0, 2-1 for a record of 3-0 in matches, 6-1 in games, and took first in the draft

Rootborn Defenses
Coursers' Accord
Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
Seller of Songbirds
Centaur's Herald
Grove of the Guardian

Makes 6. The request was for creators/populate.

EDIT

An interesting thing to note about both decks: really heavy into 3cc creatures. I found I was always putting something down, and usually had mana leftover for combat tricks, or vice versa. Plus, the keyrunes are legit in limited.

Oct 8, 2012 -- 10:56AM, Lobster667 wrote:

Oct 8, 2012 -- 10:37AM, rstnme wrote:

Rootborn Defenses
Coursers' Accord
Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
Seller of Songbirds
Centaur's Herald
Grove of the Guardian

Makes 6. The request was for creators/populate.

EDIT

An interesting thing to note about both decks: really heavy into 3cc creatures. I found I was always putting something down, and usually had mana leftover for combat tricks, or vice versa. Plus, the keyrunes are legit in limited.

Rootborn Defenses does not create a token by itself (it just populates).

It creates a token when there are tokens. I'd call that a token card, since it has an interaction with tokens. Not including it in the list sacrifices the point of this thread for semantics :P

Oct 8, 2012 -- 12:56PM, LoveMonkey wrote:

I think it would be more useful to split the two types of cards to get a better idea of what works.  As an extreme example, a deck with 10 populate cards an no token makers needs to be differentiated from a deck with 5 of each, otherwise results are pretty meaningless.

Cheers

So I had 5 token generators and 3 populate effects, one of which is repeatable, all in 6 cards. 

"What works" is a different discussion.

Centaur's Herald was a great combat trick, to block a heavy attacker and sac it for a Centaur.

Rootborn, as I mentioned, was a great combat trick and often left me with board advantage.

Seller of Songbirds mainly bought time, except when I needed more bird tokens and I had cards like Giant Growth in my hand. All about them combat tricks.

Grove of the Guardian was OK, though I found it costs you an attack round to crack, and then it's the first target for removal. I've played it both ways: a board threat so they keep mana in reserve and thus slows them down, or as a giant creature.

Guildmage was amazing, but died when I played her T2 more often than not. When she was out and populating, she was amazing. I only used her token-generation twice, both in stalled games. Still, she's a target for removal.

Coursers' Accord is a great 6-drop, especially with pumpables and shenanigans. I didn't play it that often because I only drew it twice.