3 Squee, Goblin Nabob
3 Eternal Witness
4 Accumulated Knowledge
3 Intuition
3 Opposition
3 Static Orb
4 Saproling Cluster
4 Brainstorm
3 Gush
3 Daze
2 Thwart
3 Foil
3 Windswept Heath
4 Forest
4 Yavimaya Coast
11 Island |
  Cosine.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
This deck works like a control deck,
countering threats as it builds up Static Orb/Opposition/Saproling
Cluster. At that point, you generally quickly overwhelm any decks
ability to lay down an offense, leaving them only cards like Disenchant
or Boomerang to safely escape the lock. At this point, you should
hopefully have a counter or two at the ready to keep them from breaking
out.
One of the things that can really help make this deck
tick is the Intuitions. You can use it to power up your card drawing with
Accumulated Knowledge, it can be a tutor for a missing lock element, or
you can use it with Eternal Witness to have access to a variety of great
cards. Intuition also helps as another shuffler to rearrange after a
Brainstorm and to fill your hand with Squees after you get out a Cluster.
The rest of the deck is just more manipulation and
counters. Cards like Daze, Gush, and Thwart all can supply food for a
Cluster if you need to just drop Saprolings on the ground and beat down.
Gush can also be mana production in a deck with this low a land count,
giving you a temporary boost in mana by giving you a land to drop. The few
fetch-lands can be useful if you want to side into a Solitary Confinement
style deck (just include a plains and fit in some Compulsion).
The Clusters fit into this deck quite nicely. They are a
cheap threat against control, and you do have a fair amount of card draw
(Accumulated Knowledge and Eternal Witness does that, somehow). With cards
like Squee and Gush, you can often have way more of an ability to discard,
and once you get out an Opposition, things really get out of hand. I know
that a deck like this made the rounds up in Minnesota during Fires of
Yavimaya's heyday, so it is sitting pretty comfortably on the shoulders of
some decent deck work. I really hope that you enjoy the deck and this
little look at Saproling Cluster. |
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