4
Wirewood Elf
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Wirewood Hivemaster
4 Wirewood Channeler
4 Tribal Forcemage
4 Stonewood Invoker
4 Explosive Vegetation
4 Complicate
4 Day of the Dragons
4 Grand Coliseum
9 Island
11 Forest
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  Suddenly,
Dragons.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
 ...I
mentioned that I was playing around with the idea of a Day of the
Dragons constructed deck. I was taking a "top-down" approach to the
design of the deck. The idea was to build a blue-green deck that
generated a swarm of Insect tokens and topped out by having them
metamorphose from gnats to dragons. I became caught up in the idea and
even started to convince myself of the deck’s viability. Wirewood
Symbiote and Wirewood Hivemaster were in my stack of cards from a
previous draft along with a Wirewood Channeler. The deck was building
itself…
Until my friend pointed out with his off-hand remark that what I was
really building was a house of cards that could be blown over by a
single Disenchant. Even worse than that, what if someone played Wrath of
God after you played your enchantment? Or before you played it for that
matter? Sure, the deck would be fun to play but it wouldn’t be
competitive. Which seemed to bring into focus for me the great schism
between competitive Magic players and a more casual brand of player.
When you begin to think about the cards as abstract pieces you need to
manipulate in order to win the game, tournament, PTQ, etc., you can get
out of touch with the more imaginative aspects for the game. If you live
in fear of a Disenchant or Counterspell—the bane of the "top-down" deck
designer—you lose out on an important aspect of this great game.
With that in mind I set out to defy enchantment removal, counterspells
and global creature removal and nurture a swarm of insects into a storm
of dragons. ("Storm of dragons" has a nice ring to it, like "murder of
crows." Is there actually a correct term for a group of dragons?) (How
about a scourge of dragons? --Aaron)
Before anyone writes in and suggests that I add Llanowar Elves or
Ambassador Laquatus let me point out that the deck is Onslaught Block
Constructed meaning it only uses cards from Onslaught, Legions, and
Scourge. Almost every deck I am building these days is for that format.
I am not going to even attempt a Standard deck until after the Eighth
Edition rotation.
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