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Lands:
6 Forest
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
6 Mountain
2 Mutavault
1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
4 Stomping Ground

Creatures:
1 Anger
2 Eternal Witness
4 Flamekin Harbinger
1 Genesis
4 Incandescent Soulstoke
3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Living Hive
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Spitebellows
4 Walker of the Grove

Other Spells:
4 Farseek
2 Greater Good
3 Pandemonium

Super Grover.

Description of deck by its author (quoted):
The last batch of decks was inspired by an email from Connor, a House of Cards reader and Cube Draft enthusiast that I had the privilege of meeting while I was in New York attending the Magic World Championships. I suggested that he ship me some combo ideas and, recently, he did just that. Of his combo, he writes:

The interaction is between Pandemonium and Evoke. Now, Pandemonium is probably one of the most overused Casual Combo Cards, but nonetheless, I feel that this interaction is strong enough that it warrants further investigation. The card that opened my eyes originally to this beautiful pairing was the equally beautiful Walker of the Grove from the somewhat recent Morningtide expansion. When evoked, it will not only deal the seven from the Walker, but the four from the token it spawns (however it goes about doing that). I do not need to tell you that This Is Awesome. From there, the deck builds itself.

After an abbreviated attempt at a list, he continued:

Okay, maybe the deck doesn't build itself, but it has the makings of AWESOME. My favorite interaction has to be with Æthersnipe which, when triggers are ordered right, can be a Fanning the Flames for 4 with buyback (normally costing 7RR) for 1UU.

Unfortunately, for this deck I left out the Æthersnipes, but I did include the Spitebellows that Connor used (that's six on the way in and six to a creature on the way out). Incandescent Soulstoke is a great way to cheat expensive Elementals like Walker of the Grove (and Living Hive) into play, and the mandatory end-of-turn sacrifice ensures that they will leave play as well. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is great with both comes-into-play effects and leaves-play effects for the same reason. You can evoke your guys for cheap and copy them while their self-sacrifice trigger is on the stack to get double the leaves-play effect for a fraction of the price. Flamekin Harbinger, Sakura-Tribe Elder, and Eternal Witness are also fine creatures to copy. Greater Good provides another way to make your Morningtide evokers leave play while simultaneously drawing you lots of cards. Here's where I ended up, and, yes, I should probably have some Nova Chasers in there. As always, season to taste.

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by Chris Millar @ www.wizards.com

COMBO: Pandemonium - Walker of the Grove / Kiki-Jiki

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