Lands:
8 Forest
7 Island
4 Krosan Verge
1 Breeding Pool
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
1 Hallowed Fountain
Creatures:
4 Ink-Treader Nephilim
1 Jolrael, Empress of Beasts
Other Spells:
4 Pongify
4 Think Twice
4 Moment's Peace
4 Isochron Scepter
3 Quiet Speculation
2 Deep Analysis
2 Peer Pressure
1 Acorn Harvest
3 Nature's Revolt
3 Radiate
1 Doubling Season |
    Radiape.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Now, winning with Eye of the Storm is fun.
Like, once. The problem is that there is way too much time between the
point when victory becomes inevitable and the point when you actually
achieve victory. I've played enough times against decks that hope to get
Exhaustion on Eye of the Storm and thus prevent you untapping ever
again. The win condition is usually something excruciatingly slow, like
decking you with forty-five Predicts, and they usually only start down
this long and winding road after they've bounced all of your permanents.
You know, to be on the safe side.
But, hey, whatever floats your boat. I'm no connoisseur
of boat-floating, but I know what I like. And that's making a ton of
monkey tokens all in one shot. I suddenly remembered an email I received
from Carados. It went a little something like this:
Ink-Treader Nephilim, Swords to Monkeyshares (Pongify),
then Brand. Seriously, turning everything into monkeys, then gaining
control of them = FUN!
Now there's an Ink-Treader Nephilim combo I can get
behind! Unfortunately, Brand isn't available on MTGO – where all the best
screen shots are found – so I figured I'd try the next best thing (which
is actually nowhere near as good): Peer Pressure. I wouldn't have thought
that Apes were vulnerable to peer pressure, but I guess that explains how
all those poor chimps end up smoking cigarettes. Or not.
To supplement Ink-Treader Nephilim, I decided to use
Radiate. To make sure that there are a ton of creatures in play, I opted
for Nature's Revolt. Now you can turn Pongify into Ape-ageddon. Yeah,
it'll take a lot of mana to cast Pongify, Peer Pressure, and Radiate in
the same turn, but consider what we're doing and how ridiculous it is.
Something this dumb takes time. Ape City wasn't built in a day.
To buy the necessary time, I've included Moment's Peace
and Isochron Scepter (a "combo" which led to a number of concessions all
by itself). If you don't want to wait around for the ten or so mana you'll
need to turn everything into Apes all at once, you can just put Pongify on
a stick and turn lands into Apes at a much slower rate.
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