Lands:
4 Forest
1 Fungal Reaches
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Karplusan Forest
5 Mountain
1 Pendelhaven
4 Treetop Village
1 Urza's Factory
Creatures:
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
2 Bogardan Hellkite
2 Cloudthresher
4 Siege-Gang Commander
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Wall of Roots
Other Spells:
3 Fertile Ground
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Harmonize
4 Incinerate
2 Molten Disaster
4 Search for Tomorrow
Sideboard:
1 Detritivore
3 Eyes of the Wisent
2 Loxodon Warhammer
3 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
2 Quagnoth
2 Spectral Force
2 Sulfurous Blast |
  RG
Ramp (Big mana) - late 2007.
Description of deck by
Kuan-Kuan Tian
(quoted):
Although Armin's build eschews the options
that Into the North provides him and does not have access to Skred, his
build does come with its own advantages. The most important of these is
the added consistency his lands provide him. As Lachmann's list must run
snow-covered lands to maintain his deck's internal synergies, he must
utilize Highland Wealds rather than Karplusan Forests or Grove of the
Burnwillows to fix his mana. This means that the Snow version has a
total of 8 lands which come into play tapped and so clunky draws where
the deck would be unable to follow up its turn two accelerator with a
turn three Garruk or Harmonize are not entirely uncommon. Birner's list
is not only unaffected by such irritating annoyances but on top of this,
the fact that most of his lands come into play untapped allows him to
play the seemingly innocuous but undeniably powerful Search for
Tomorrow. This card is extremely potent in R/G Mana Ramp since it is the
only accelerator that does not occupy the two drop slot. What this means
is that a deck running Search for Tomorrow can accelerate on BOTH turn
one AND two which in turn allows it to reach five mana on turn three.
This means that Birner's deck is capable to more explosive draws since
five mana, of course, is the cost of Siege-Gang Commander and as such,
it is not really surprising that Birner's decklist runs the full playset
of the powerful Goblin while Lachmann's list is only sporting three
copies.
On top of this, as Birner's vanilla version no longer
needs to run Into the North as a mana accelerator, he can run the
Fertile Ground instead, which is of course much more synergistic with
Garruk Wildspeaker. The advantage that this provides, however, is a
double-edged sword as it makes cards that can bounce or destroy lands,
like Riftwing Cloudskate or Mwonvuli Acid-Moss that much more
devastating.
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