4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Vine Trellis
4 Moss Kami
4 Craw Wurm
4 Kodama's Reach
4 Echoing Decay
3 Wear Away
4 Rend Flesh
4 Predator's Strike
2 Soulless Revival
4 Darksteel Citadel
12 Forest
7 Swamp |
  G/B
All-Common Control.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Two of the three best color fixers in Magic
right now are Green commons: Sakura-Tribe Elder and Kodama's Reach.
("And this year's Duh Award for Most Obvious Statement about Magic goes
to . . . .") No need for Pentad Prisms and Darksteel Ingots. This deck
was just gonna go get Swamps if it needed 'em. In addition, Green
actually has some fairly useful common beef. Craw Wurm clocks in at 6/4
for 4GG while Moss Kami is a 5/5 with trample for 5G. I like Trample.
Trample is good. It says ""I can kill your blocker, deal you damage, and
still keep my creature."" Finally, given that I presumed that Affinity
would be everywhere, we needed main deck artifact hate. That started as
Naturalize. When I noticed that Rend Flesh is an Arcane spell - yes,
Virginia, it really is - I switched to Wear Away.
At first, Predator's Strike was Dark Banishing. I got
very frustrated at having the Craw Wurm get blocked by crummy 1/1 Snakes
and 1/2 Norwood Rangers. In those cases, Predator's Strike is a much
sweeter trick. They think that they're stopping six damage with their
little 1/1. In reality, they'll be losing the 1/1 and taking eight. Ouch.
The Soulless Revivals do seem kind of random, but I
assure you that they're not. During testing, I found twenty-four lands to
be too many, even with the Elders and Reaches. I dropped a Swamp. The best
card for that slot ended up being something that could bring back the
beef. Besides, for a mere 3BB, you can kill a non-Spirit and bring back a
Moss Kami. For 3BG, you can thin the deck of two lands and bring back a
Craw Wurm. As the sixtieth card, Soulless Revival was worthy of the slot.
There are a few more all-common decks that I sent, but
I'm not going to make this any longer than it already is. If Ted will let
me finish up next week (Can I, please? Huh? Huh?), well, you'll know
because you'll see part two. If not, it'll be something else. (By the way,
if Ted says yes, I'll pop the Red-Green LD deck, the mono-Red weenie deck,
and, of course, the flying White Weenie deck.) |
 |
