Lands:
11 Forest
8 Mountain
4 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
Creatures:
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Torpid Moloch
4 Rootwalla
4 Golgari Brownscale
4 Brooding Saurian
4 Imperiosaur
Other Spells:
4 Edge of Autumn
3 Savage Twister
3 Loxodon Warhammer
2 Harmonize |
  Terrible
Lizards.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
We might as well start at the bottom, and what
could be lower-lying than lizards? Now, lizards is one of those
barely-legal tribes, the kind that only recently became large enough to
be able to ignore Mistform Ultimus. Right now there are seven
Standard-legal lizards: Rootwalla, Golgari Brownscale, Brooding Saurian,
Mistform Ultimus, Imperiosaur, and a couple of Molochs. It's impossible
to avoid using green, and you wouldn't want to even if you could, since
that's where the bulk of (some might say "all") the best lizards reside.
I'm particularly fond of the excellently-named Imperiosaur. You can just
imagine him raising his snout in the air, tut-tutting all those who
stoop to using those uncivilized dual lands. How banal! "I say, old boy,
these days I kindly request that I be summoned by nothing but John Avon
Forests."
Once we've added the green lizards, there's only one
choice left. Do we want to add blue as a secondary colour (for Mistform
Asterisk) or red? The blue "lizard" doesn't really help with our mana
curve, being another four-drop. In the end, I went with the somewhat
unexciting Torpid Moloch over the other red lizard, Overpriced Moloch,
whose flavour text, if I'm not mistaken, reads, "Hey, I'm not the one who
put a bunch of three-toughness creatures in my deck."
Llanowar Elves and Edge of Autumn speed up your
lizard-making by a whole turn, while Loxodon Warhammer and Skarrg, the
Rage Pits give your stubby-armed monsters the ability to bust through your
opponents' defenses. I generally like to include some mass removal in my
tribal wars decks, because there will be no shortage of creatures to
eliminate. In this case, I called upon Savage Twister. I topped things off
with a couple Harmonizes.
The deck is very straightforward, which is probably
inevitable when your tribe consists of more-or-less vanilla creatures. The
fun comes from the improbable fact that you're playing a lizard deck,
rather than some internal wackiness. I was going to try to add some cute
Brooding Saurian tricks, but the only thing I could think of involved
Yavimaya Dryad and Jedit Ojanen of Efrava. You could play a Dryad and
"Donate" a Forest, attack with your existing forestwalkers, and get your
Forest back at the end of the turn. Not bad, but probably not worth the
space.
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