Lands:
9 Mountain
9 Forest
4 Stomping Ground
2 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
Creatures:
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Primal Forcemage
1 Sparkspitter
4 Soulbright Flamekin
4 Inner-Flame Acolyte
2 Briarhorn
1 Nova Chaser
3 Glarewielder
4 Cloudthresher
3 Hamletback Goliath
1 Hearthcage Giant
Other Spells:
2 Firecat Blitz
2 Lightning Coils
1 Pandemonium
1 Feral Lightning |
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Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Luckily, David survived this impromptu
combotomy. After a short stint in the emergency room, he wrote down some
of those combos and sent them to yours truly. There were many good ones,
but two stood out for me. The first involved Primal Forcemage. Both the
Forcemage and Hampsterdance Goliath have an ability that triggers
whenever a creature comes into play. You can tell because it says so
right on the cards. What this means is that if you have both cards in
play and you put a creature in play, each of them will trigger. The cool
thing is that you get to choose which ability will resolve first. If the
Forcemage gives the creature +3/+3 first, the creature will be that much
bigger when it's time to decide how many counters you're going to put on
your Goliath.
The second card that David wanted to pair with
Hamletback Goliath was Saproling Burst. How does +21/+21 grab you? Or
+39/+39 with a Primal Forcemage in play? While I didn't end up using
Saproling Burst in the final deck (I kept it Extended legal), I did end up
using other mass-token producers that accomplish much the same thing,
albeit less spectacularly.
Another way to boost Hamletback Goliath for little cost
is to use the evoke creatures. As I mentioned above, these guys do two
useful things when you evoke them: they come into play and then they are
put into your graveyard from play. I'll start with the first part. For a
measly red mana, you can evoke an Inner-Flame Acolyte, have it give itself
+2/+0 when it comes into play but before you sacrifice it, and, as a
result, give your Goliath a permanent +4/+4. For two mana, an evoked
Glarewielder can give your Goliath +3/+3 while making it much harder to
block, and an evoked Briarhorn can pump your Goliath +6/+6. At four mana,
you can evoke the Faerie-hating Cloudthresher and burden your Giant with
seven more counters. With such a large hamlet on his back, he'll make
Atlas look like... Well, like someone holding a much smaller planet.
The fact that an evoked creature is later put into your
graveyard from play is particularly useful when you're trying to charge
your Lightning Coils. It has long ago been proven by science that Primal
Forcemage loves creatures with haste, especially great masses hasty
tokens. Besides the ones that I've mentioned, I'm also going to use Nova
Chaser and a bunch of cards that make hasty Elemental tokens, including
Sparkspitter, Firecat Blitz and Feral Lightning. |
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