Lands:
5 Forest
6 Plains
4 Treetop Village
4 Windbrisk Heights
4 Wooded Bastion
Creatures:
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Twilight Shepherd
Other Spells:
2 Behemoth Sledge
4 Fertile Ground
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Rampant Growth
4 Ajani Goldmane
2 Martial Coup
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
Sideboard:
1 Behemoth Sledge
4 Cloudthresher
4 Aura of Silence
4 Hallowed Burial
2 Martial Coup |
  G/W
Mana Ramp 2009.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
(Blogged 8/9/09) So I was working on this
week’s Top Decks and my good friend Paul Jordan insisted that I write
about the G/W decks that did so well in Honolulu (sorry - you will have
to wait until Thursday to read about those if you haven’t seen them
yet).
However as you know I am a crazy lunatic when it comes
to building decks, and the thought of summoning Thornling was pretty
insane to me… I mean imagine Thornling wearing a Behemoth Sledge! I
couldn’t get that image out of my brain. So of course I procrastinated
tonight and have not as of yet completed my Top Decks article… But I did
produce a new deck!
As you can see Thornling did not actually make the
cut, unfortunately
The mana might need a little bit of work… I’ve had
some issues getting my Green when I need it, but nothing serious so far.
The sideboard probably needs lots of work. Rhox
Meditant and Captured Sunlight as a combo are probably better than the
insane number of overcosted Wrath of God sweepers I have been
consistently trying to side in. Hallowed Burial, now that I think of it,
is probably kind of dumb relative to good old Wrath of God… I mean I am
the one going for the persist combo, right?
Another thought is to reduce the curve a little bit to
play Knight of the White Orchid and a set of Borderposts… But I haven’t
thought that far into the future yet.
The deck is like halfway between a Jund Mana Ramp deck
(note the Garruk Wildspeaker + Fertile Ground goodbadness and G/W
Tokens. The Jund side allows me to play Jund-expensive super pricey
cards like Martial Coup and Twilight Shepherd; from Tokens side I trade
in the Overruns for some more expensive board controlling cards, while
completing the Garruk package.
And what about Twilight Shepherd? She hasn’t been seen
since G/W Little Kid!
Basically I wanted to integrate the Murderous
Redcap-style B/W Persist engine into my deck, and Twilight Shepherd has
persist. Meanwhile it is also a nice spell in general! This card has
elicited numerous on-the-spot concessions. |
