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Lands:
15 Forest
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
2 Swamp
1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
Creatures:
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Ambush Commander
2 Woodwraith Corrupter
1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
Other Spells:
4 Farseek
4 Explosive Vegetation
4 Earth Surge
4 Life/Death
4 Genju of the Cedars
3 Reap and Sow
2 Rude Awakening |
  Assault
on the Earth.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
There are few things that I enjoy more than
swinging with land cards. It seems like an obvious extrapolation from my
professed love of Elves. I've already built a few decks that used
Natural Affinity to Alpha Strike the opponent out of nowhere. In my
second week here, I used creatures with a built-in Lure ability to run
interference for my animated lands, and then a few weeks later, during
Gruul Week, I made my Forests and Mountains into big, bad firebreathing
Dragons with the help of Natural Affinity and an upside-down Homura,
Human Ascendant. Luckily for me, Guildpact features a nearly-unplayable
Rare which is ideal for decks that win with an all-terrain attack: Earth
Surge! Its symmetry makes Natural Affinity a less exciting option, and,
besides, I've used that card enough times already. John LaPine (also
known as Piroteknix) wrote to me and suggested pairing Earth Surge with
Living Lands, that way, you can break the symmetry as long as your
opponent isn't playing with Forests. We can do even better than that.
Ambush Commander is asymmetrical, provides a bit of security against
mass removal (you can sacrifice it to its own ability to de-animate your
lands so they won't be destroyed by cards like Wrath of God), and is
available online to boot! Better still is Life/Death. For a measly Green
mana, you can summon forth a lethal strike-force out of the blue.
Ravnica's forgotten Horror, Woodwraith Corrupter, makes
some pretty beefy men, and with Earth Surge they get even beefier. The
same can be said of Kamahl, Fist of Krosa. He's a one-man wrecking crew
who can quickly become a many-man wrecking crew. The deck wants a lot of
mana, so I've included full sets of Sakura-Tribe Elder and Farseek, which
help to ensure a turn 3 Reap and Sow, Explosive Vegetation, or Earth
Surge. Man-lands like the aforementioned Blinkmoth Nexus, as well as
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb, are also ideal inclusions, and can be fetched
by Reap and Sow. Genju of the Cedars is a cheap and resilient threat which
benefits greatly from Earth Surge's power-boost, and Rude Awakening is
just way to good to omit.
When is a Forest not a Forest?
When it is a tacking.
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