4 Thallid
4 Thallid Shell-Dweller
2 Thelon of Havenwood
1 Thallid Germinator
4 Sporesower Thallid
4 Thelonite Hermit
4 Stonebrow, Krosan Hero
1 Verdeloth the Ancient
4 Search for Tomorrow
4 Gruul War Plow
3 Scatter the Seeds
2 Squall Line
11 Forest
8 Mountain
3 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
1 Swamp |
   Strategic
Gruul Locations.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
Let's put the flavour aside for a minute and
talk about the card. Stonebrow is a multicolour Fangren Hunter who pumps
up your attacking tramplers. This means that Stonebrow attacks as a 6/6
and he provides a little Overrun effect if he's got some other tramplers
by his side. I'm a big fan of Overrun (and, by extension, overkill), so
I'm going to want to have as many trampling creatures as possible. For
the creatures, I'm going to turn to the Thallids and their fungal
offspring, Saprolings. The Thallids can pump out tokens, they can help
you win the New Jersey State Championship, but one thing they can't do
is trample. I'm going to fix that. Since Stonebrow seems pretty Gruul to
me, I'm going to combine him with their signature artifact, the Gruul
War Plow, to give all of my little Saprolings trample. As Defiant Elf
amply proved, everyone loves 1/1's with trample. There's no flavour
disconnect at all. If you don't have a War Plow handy, Skarrg, the Rage
Pits provides you with another way to grant trample, albeit to one
creature at a time.
Note that Stonebrow will pump up creatures with trample
even if he doesn't attack. When I first saw the card, I thought his
ability only triggered when he attacked. The printed version is much
better, since it allows you hold Stonebrow back while you send your
Saprolings on suicide missions if your opponent controls, say, an Ohran
Viper.
I threw in a single copy of Verdeloth the Ancient
because, well, he produces and pumps up Saprolings. Other one-ofs that
would be fun and synergistic include Borborygmos (who "combos" with
Stonebrow and is good with tokens), and the timeshifted Jolrael, Empress
of Beasts (whose land-animation works well with Gruul War Plow, and works
even better with both the Plow and Stonebrow). |
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