4 Coiling Oracle
4 Gaea's Skyfolk
4 Trygon Predator
4 Vigean Hydropon
2 Cephalid Constable
4 Scion of the Wild
4 Aether Burst
4 Aether Mutation
4 Fertile Imagination
4 Moldervine Cloak
7 Forest
6 Island
4 Yavimaya Coast
4 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Novijen, Heart of Progress |
  Fertility
Clinic.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
As long as the deck ideas are a-flowin', I'm
as happy as a pig in whatever it is that pigs are happy in. Probably
Homelands boosters. Unfortunately, I have some sad news. After this
week's article, I will have only one idea left. If next week isn't “The
Only Thing You Can Think Of” Week, then I'm in big trouble.
This next deck was born of the fertile imaginings of my
“fertile” imagination. As luck would have it, I was trying to build a
Fertile Imagination deck. As a token producer, Fertile Imagination is a
classic example of the concept of high-risk/high-reward. You might get
eight Saprolings on turn 3 or 4, or you might whiff completely and get no
Saprolings at all. Nobody likes to whiff completely, so I tried a few
things to make sure that this wouldn't happen. First off, I monkeyed
around a bit with Head Games, with Howling Mine and Seizan, Perverter of
Truth to keep my opponent's hand full. If you followed Head Games (filling
your opponent's hand up with land) with Fertile Imagination, you could get
fourteen tokens. It seemed like a long way to go, though, even for that
many 1/1s.
The other, less spectacular but more consistent, thing
to do is pair Fertile Imagination with Blue's bounce cards, like Aether
Burst. Unless you have an extraordinarily short memory, you will have a
good idea of what card-type to name after you've Boomeranged a few things
back to your opponent's hand. I went with Aether Burst because it gets
progressively better for the same amount of mana. Also, it doesn't require
UU, unlike Turbulent Dreams or Boomerang. If you're opponents aren't
playing with creatures, then you are at a disadvantage, but it's a risk
I'm willing to take. The other bounce card I want to use is Aether
Mutation. It fits the colour scheme and seems very Simic, what with the
Mutation and all. It also makes tokens, just like Fertile Imagination.
This will prove useful when you have Scion of the Wild on the board.
Aether Mutating your opponent's last blocker while pumping up your Scion
by five or six is about as swingy as it gets, since you get a bunch of 1/1
blockers out of the deal as well.
They're just a bunch of 1/1s, however, and that's where
Vigean Hydropon comes in. Turn 3 Hydropon, turn 4 Fertile Imagination will
likely leave you with eight-power worth of Saproling tokens. The
Simic-aligned Trygon Predator also made the deck, since it gives you some
outs against Enchantment or Artifact-based decks. It also helps out
Fertile Imagination, in a way, by making your opponent hold on to his or
her Artifacts and Enchantments until they can deal with the Predator.
Moldervine Cloak is a questionable inclusion, in my
mind, since it doesn't necessarily fit in with the deck's themes. I put it
in the deck anyway, because you can randomly win games on the back of a
turn 2 Gaea's Skyfolk, turn 3 Moldervine Cloak. More importantly, the idea
of putting a Cloak on Cephalid Constable gets me excited in exactly the
way you'd think a vine-covered chief-of-the-Squid-police would get a
person excited. |
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