4 Birds of Paradise
4 Surveilling Sprite
4 Scryb Ranger
3 Plaxmanta
4 Silkwing Scout
4 Ohran Viper
3 Trygon Predator
4 Sprite Noble
4 Diamond Faerie
3 Moldervine Cloak
7 Snow-Covered Island
7 Snow-Covered Forest
4 Breeding Pool
4 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Snow-Covered Plains |
   Faeries
Wear Cloaks.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
Giants are quite intimidating. They're big and
mean and destructive. One of them has a hammer for a fist, for crying
out loud! Another one has blood … that's on fire! There's probably a
Giant out there with a socket-wrench for a leg. Made of magma. You can't
make this stuff up. By contrast, the tribe I'm going to look at next is
full of delicate little creatures with wings of silk.
Ah, Faeries. Right off the bat you know you're in
trouble when you've been illustrated by Rebecca Guay. By contrast, if,
say, Wayne England has got your illustration covered, you're pretty much
guaranteed to have horns and scales and a power that at least trumps that
of a squirrel.
Way back in September, if you recall, while I was in the
process of previewing the funnest most fun multiplayer card in Time
Spiral, I tried to reassure dedicated Green mages that there would be
plenty of “tricksy” cards in the set for them. One of the cards that I had
in mind when I wrote that was the Master to Spectral Force's Blaster,
Scryb Ranger. It's a Scryb Sprite! It's a Quirion Ranger! Buy now and get
Protection from Blue and Flash and, like, a tote bag while supplies last!
(Offer void everywhere.)
What kind of “tricks” can this faerie perform? Well, for
starters, it can effectively make mana, if you have a Birds of Paradise in
play and/or you're going to miss your land-drop for the turn. You can also
untap the Faerie Lord, Sprite Noble, and give all of your flying guys
+2/+0. You can play offense and defense with the same creature as well.
The best such creature is probably Ohran Viper. It's an evasive two-drop,
so you can follow it up with a turn-three Moldervine Cloak for some
serious Faerie beatings.
The rest of the starting five include Surveilling
Sprite, Silkwing Scout, and Diamond Faerie. Only Wizened Snitches and Wee
Dragonauts didn't make the team. Sorry guys! To fill out the rest of the
roster, I turned to the Simic's own Trygon Predator and Plaxmanta, a
Naturalize that gets pumped up by Sprite Noble and an answer to opposing
removal spells.
Budget players will probably want to forgo the Ohran
Vipers, as awesome as they are, in favour of something that won't break
the bank. If you want to maintain a certain level of snowiness, I'd
recommend Frost Raptor. It's common, it gets pumped by both Diamond Faerie
and Sprite Noble, and it shrugs off removal like so many, uh,
loose-fitting shoulder accessories.
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