Lands:
12 Swamp
11 Forest
Creatures:
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Krosan Tusker
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Brownscale
4 Crypt Rats
4 Spore Frog
1 Battlefield Scrounger
1 Eternal Witness
1 Shambling Shell
Other Spells:
4 Tortured Existence
3 Sylvan Library
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Moment’s Peace |
  Peasant
Tortured Existence.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
 This Peasant Magic deck is built around one of
my all time favorite cards in Tortured Existence. I have to respect
that! The deck wants to gain control of the board by using things
like Dredge; Fogs and Frogs; land search; and big creatures. Then it
wins with a large Crypt Rats and/or big creatures. It can cycle Krosan
Tusker for lands and cards over and over again, and get extra cards.
The Battlefield Scrounger can keep your dredge engine
going by putting cards from your graveyard back into your deck. If you
get control of the board, you can kill in one turn with a giant
Scrounger. Note that dredging guarantees you draw a creature each
turn, then you can swap that creature for any creature in your graveyard
for the low, low price of a single Black mana with a Tortured Existence
out. Also note that dredge is a replacement effect, so with a
Sylvan Library out, you can dredge three cards during your draw step,
filling up your graveyard massively and you do not have to return
anything to your library because you never technically drew the cards.
This can allow you to return one Spore Frog to your
hand each turn, for a Black mana, and play it for a Green mana. Then you
can literally Fog each and every turn of the game. This gives you time
to set up your synergetic elements while you continue to recur and sac
your Fog Frog. It order to set up, you can do something like this:
Dredge to draw a creature in your draw step. Swap critter with Krosan
Tusker. Cycle Tusker, and then dredge a creature for the draw. You have
a land and a creature. Swap the creature for the Fog Frog, and play it.
Play the land. You can change the details as you need, but it’s simple
once you understand the deck.
This deck is another great example of how flexible the
format is. Sure, you can build a deck around 28 creatures and a few
spells, or you can create combos both powerful and subtle.
Peasant Magic is a
format in which one can play with any legal Vintage set, as well as
silver bordered sets. In the format, you can play any common, up to the
normal four copies per card, and you can play up to five uncommons
total. The card has the lowest commonality of any printing. For
example, Rukh Egg was a common in Arabian Nights and a rare in the base
set. You could use the rare copy in Peasant as a common. There is one
exception to this rule. Strip Mine is treated as an uncommon, because it
was too prevalent in decks as a common.
All ante cards are
banned. Additionally, the following cards are banned: Ali from Cairo,
Library of Alexandria, Brain Freeze, Candelabra of Tawnos, Berserk,
Diamond Valley, Mana Drain, and Mishra’s Workshop. Note that all
cards from Arabian Nights, Antiquities, The Dark, Fallen Empires, and
Homelands are either common or uncommon, despite what some sites might
say to the contrary, so all are legal.
The five uncommon
cards counts for both the deck and sideboard, for tournament purposes. |
