Lands:
18 Forest
2 Swamp
4 Gilt-leaf Palace
Creatures:
4 Elvish Champion
4 Elvish Harbinger
4 Joiner Adept
4 Priest Of Titania
4 Timberwatch Elf
4 Wellwisher
Other Spells:
4 Umbral Mantle
2 Hurricane
4 Rite Of Consumption
2 Eyeblight's Ending |
  Dark
Elves.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
This deck uses Umbral Mantle to make a Priest
of Titania super huge, and then Fling it at your opponent with Rite of
Consumption and gain that in life. Rite of Consumption is my new sorcery
speed Fling in Shadowmoor that can only hit an opponent but gets you
life as well. It’s great for this sort of deck, and splashing Black for
my Fling instead of Red allows me to run Gilt-Leaf Palace and
Eyeblight’s Ending.
Outside of Ending, the Mantle, and the Rites, every
other card in the deck is a Green elf.
Priest of Titania are classic mana accelerants that
can tap for a bunch of mana if you have enough elves out. My hope is
that they will stay alive longer because you have so many threats that
appear to be a problem. Years of playing against elf decks with
Timberwatch Elves, Wellwishers, Elvish Champions and so forth has taught
casual players which elves are Public Enemy #1 (Wellwishers) and next in
line (Champions if you have Forests, Timberwatch if you don’t). People
will use Swords and Expunges on your harmless combo elves, leaving your
Priests alive… that’s my hope, anyway.
Getting a Priest to tap for three or more mana is easy
enough. Have two other elves in play, such as a Harbinger and an Adept,
and then you can go off. Your opponents will often supply two elves for
you, and you can go off with just the Priest as your only creature.
I would recommend holding back the Umbral Mantle until
you are ready to go off. Otherwise, if opponents see the Mantle and the
Priest together, they may realize that you can make a 198/198 creature
(with no evasive ability) and fear it enough to kill either the Mantle
or the Priest. You don’t want that, so save the Mantle and play it when
it comes time to go off.
Note that Elvish Harbinger can find you a Priest of
Titania. It can also get you a bunch of other elves if you have need,
such as Eyeblight’s Ending, Elvish Champion, and so forth.
This deck is very elf heavy, and you can win just as a
super aggro elf boy. Wins like that are not unusual.
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