Lands:
10 Forest
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Stomping Ground
3 Taiga
2 Swarmyard
1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
Creatures:
4 Essence Warden
4 Broodhatch Nantuko
4 Acridian
2 Marker Beetles
3 Nantuko Vigilante
1 Ulasht, the Hate Seed
4 Saber Ants
4 Volcano Hellion
1 Stag Beetle
2 Gleancrawler
Other Spells:
1 Druid's Call
4 Echoing Courage
2 Beacon of Creation
1 Mana Echoes |
  Tsetse.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
During my long sojourn, hunting for (and
Gatherer-ing) Volcano Hellion combos, I stumbled upon a couple of
six-legged freaks that seem like they wouldn't mind having liquid-hot
magma spat upon them. I'm talking, of course, about Broodhatch Nantuko
and Bennie Smith's beloved Saber Ants. This is similar to the combo with
Darien, King of Kjeldor, in that you will end up with a number of token
creatures equal to the amount of damage you choose to do with Volcano
Hellion. You can even substitute Essence Warden for Soul Warden. The
beauty of this combo is that since both the Nantuko and the Saber Ants
are insects, you can regenerate them if you have a Swarmyard. So you can
blast your bugs with the Hellion, make a huge amount of tokens, gain the
life back with Essence Warden, and still keep your bugs around for
another go! If you also have Gleancrawler, you can neglect to pay the
echo cost of the Hellion and do it all over again the following turn. In
the absence of either of your little flea-factories, you can suit up one
of your other insects with Druid's Call and have your Hellion magically
turn lava into squirrels, which is truly a neat trick.
Now, what can you do with all of these insect tokens?
You could make an enormous Ulasht, the Hate Seed, for one. You could also
power up a Stag Beetle. Of course, you could also do something a little
unorthodox like, uh, win the game by attacking with your swarm and pumping
them up with the very on-theme Echoing Courage. Mana Echoes is more
on-theme goodness. Acridian is an insect with echo, so including it was
like a goblin and a jellyfish: a complete no-brainer. Marker Beetles is a
card I've always liked, and it combines with Gleancrawler to form an
incredibly slow card-drawing engine. |
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