4 Icatian Crier
4 Jotun Owl Keeper
2 Desolation Giant
4 Sunhome Enforcer
3 Chronosavant
2 Hammerfist Giant
1 Oathsworn Giant
2 Ivory Giant
2 Bloodfire Colossus
4 Lightning Axe
4 Boros Signet
4 Resurrection
7 Plains
7 Mountain
4 Boros Garrison
4 Sacred Foundry
2 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion |
  Pennant
Winner.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Standard Tribal Wars is tricky because the
decks just don't have a lot of room once you fill out the starting
lineup card and accommodate their mana requirements. If you play
something that doesn't give you a lot of low-cost creature options,
you're lucky to have a dozen free slots since you'll have to devote more
space to making mana. This makes it important to have creatures that can
act like spells, creatures that aren't just vanilla beaters. Since the
format is by definition creature-heavy, one good thing about Giants is
that they have three “Wrath of Gods”: Hammerfist Giant, Bloodfire
Colossus, and the aforementioned Desolation Giant.
With all these new tools, can Giants be a contender?
Robby Bullis, aka Redland Jack, certainly thought so. Since Chronosavant
complements a reanimation strategy (you'll want to be dumping creatures
into your graveyard anyway) and Resurrection enables such a strategy,
Robby was all over it like someone who loves Smarties would be all over a
Smartie. A turn-one Lightning Axe allows you to get a turn-two
Chronosavant, which is about the best time to both skip a turn and have a
5/5 monster in play. There aren't a whole lot of ways to fast-track
creatures to your graveyard in R/W, but either of the new Spellshapers
(Icatian Crier or Flowstone Channeler) will do the trick. The Crier makes
chump-blocker tokens while binning fatties like Bloodfire Colossus. He
does a decent job of holding back opposing forces, but I wouldn't hold it
against you if you wanted to swap them out for Lightning Helixes or
Pyroclasms.
In one particularly long, drawn-out game against
Jack345's Insect deck, I had three Sunhome Enforcers, an Ivory Giant, a
Chronosavant, and Oathsworn Giant holding off his Gleancrawlers and
Grave-Shell Scarabs. In the meantime, I was slowly being poisoned to death
by a Swamp Mosquito. A turn before I could reanimate my second Ivory
Giant, tap down his guys, and swing for the win, he played Hex, killing
six of my Giants with one blow. Unbelievable! |
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