Lands:
7 Forest
6 Island
4 Breeding Pool
4 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Pendelhaven
1 Academy RuinsCreatures:
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Coiling Oracle
4 Elvish Champion
4 Wood Elves
4 Yavimaya Dryad
4 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
3 Primordial Sage
2 Tidespout Tyrant
Other Spells:
4 Thrumming Stone
4 Compulsive Research |
  100%
Relentless Rats Free.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
By now, everyone knows about the ol' Thrumming
Stone + Relentless Rats combo. Approximately eight billion people have
emailed me about it, and Brian David-Marshall wrote about the combo and
provided a decklist shortly after the Coldsnap release.
Much more exciting to me is the combo sent in by ohpo.
Maybe I found it more interesting because the combo is blue-green, my
favourite colour combination. Maybe it was because ohpo put the combo in a
deck that was legal in Standard Tribal Wars. And maybe, just maybe, I got
pumped up about ohpo's deck because it was full of my favourite forestfolk,
Elves! Oh yeah, here's the combo:
Momir Vig + Thrumming Stone
Whenever you play a green creature spell, both the
ripple ability granted by Thrumming Stone and Momir Vig's Worldly Tutor
ability will trigger. Put the ripple on the stack first, followed by
Momir's Worldly Tutoring, which will resolve first. Search out a copy of
the creature you just played and put it on top of your library. Let the
ripple resolve. Play the creature you just searched up. Shampoo your hair.
I mean, lather, rinse, and repeat. Basically, every time you play a
creature spell, you can also play every copy of that creature that is
still in your library.
Since the combo is fairly expensive and requires green
creatures, it just makes sense to play with Elves. Llanowar Elves, Coiling
Oracle, and Wood Elves can help you ramp up to five mana. While not an Elf
itself, Yavimaya Dryad acts as Wood Elves 5–8, and its ability to give
your opponent a Forest works well with the Forestwalk granted by Elvish
Champion. The only major changes I made to ohpo's deck were to add
Primordial Sage and Tidespout Tyrant to help out in the late game. It is
no coincidence that both of these creatures get much better when all of
your spells have ripple. They also work quite well with Momir, even when
he's all by his lonesome. |
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