MTG Combo: Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel

filthyc4sual on Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball (Primer)

6 years ago

As I said before, the combo is a backup plan. My main plan is still the Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel plan.

filthyc4sual on

6 years ago

Hey musicalsocks, welcome to the world of elves players!

Two cards that are really good in this strategy are Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel . Combined, they make it very easy to play out your hand. Summoner's Pact also works well with them.

Another good card is Collected Company. It helps with consistency and card advantage, but doesn't interfere with setting up your board.

Feel free to check out my list, Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball, for inspiration!

Also, on an unrelated topic, I just realized how buff Beastcaller Savant is. Damn.

filthyc4sual on Wake Me Up Before You CoCo!

6 years ago

One trick I like with modern elves is Summoner's Pact. It makes having t2 Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel very consistent, and it can occasionally be free if you win the turn you cast it! My list, if you want to see how Pact is in elves, is Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball. I also like playing a one-of Craterhoof Behemoth in case they have Surgical Extraction for your Ezuri, Renegade Leader. Great deck though. +1

filthyc4sual on Golgari Elves (MH1)

6 years ago

I would highly recommend Summoner's Pact in decks that have the Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel combo. It makes you twice as likely to get the pieces down on turn 2, which leads to you playing most or all of your hand very quickly. With tutors, you can also play a toolbox of creatures; Scavenging Ooze, Reclamation Sage, and Spellskite are my favorites. If you can't get Pact, I would try to get Chord of Calling, which is even better with the toolbox because you can play them immediately after, even on your opponent's turn! I also like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx in lists with Ezuri, Renegade Leader. I would also appreciate if you could take a look at my list, Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball, and give constructive criticism and an upvote. Elves are amazing! :)

filthyc4sual on Elf Overrun Deck

6 years ago

Hey there akuinnen24! Just to let you know, Arachnogenesis isn't legal in modern. I'm gonna assume you're working on cutting that sideboard down. One other route you can go with elves is a more combo-ey route with Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel , and regardless of whether you choose to do that or not, I would add Ezuri, Renegade Leader, who protects your army and also provides a win condition, and I prefer Joraga Warcaller over Imperious Perfect I would also switch Bramblewood Paragon to Metallic Mimic. Feel free to check out my modern elves deck, Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball, for ideas! It's meant to be more combo heavy, but I'm sure parts of it could apply here, and I'm always happy to see more Elves players stop by!

filthyc4sual on Cloudy with a Chance of Elfball (Primer)

6 years ago

Also, if you haven't tried a deck with the Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel combo, I would highly recommend trying it to see how it works, because it feels like you don't understand or respect the combo aspect of elves.

2_Trainz on March of the Elves

7 years ago

I can understand that a playset of Heritage Druid is a bit pricey, but trust me the difference between an Elf deck that has a playset of both Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel and one that doesn't is huge, it gives you speed, versatility, and a way to "go off". So you should definitely take the plunge, you will for sure be happy about it.

To understand why Lead the Stampede is so much better than Life's Legacy you have to think about what you want from them, and when you need that the most. What you want is obvious, it's card draw/gas. The problem with Life's Legacy comes in when you think about when you want card draw the most. You want it after a board wipe, or amidst heavy removal. The reason these are the scenarios you want it the most is so you can get a board presence going despite your opponent's best efforts. The problem with Life's Legacy in these scenarios is that this is where it's least useful. You won't have any pumped up Elves to sack, and if you did play an Elf that is bigger than a 1/1, you probably need it to swing with in this scenario. Lead doesn't care about your board, it'll on average net you 3 or more creatures, I get five off it pretty often even. These 3 or so creatures are commonly vital and have won me a very large amount of matches. Life's Legacy is more versatile in what it can draw, but it's definitely less versatile on when it's useful, which is one of the most important parts of any card in any deck.

Thanks for considering my advice!

ComradeJim270 on Combo Elves or Aggro Elves

7 years ago

There really aren't any elf decks that aren't at least partially combo decks. Even the most aggressive versions run the Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel package to flood the board and make tons of , typically in order to close out the game with Shaman of the Pack, Craterhoof Behemoth or Ezuri, Renegade Leader.

I haven't seen elf decks running Coat of Arms or large numbers of lords. They really aren't needed. Elvish Archdruid is a core part of the deck, but you don't really need much more than that; some lists run Elvish Champion and you see Imperious Perfect now and then, but that's about it.

On that note, Shaman of the Pack is amazing, and you should absolutely play it. With Chord of Calling or Collected Company it can kill at instant speed. It provides excellent reach. It's a decent, tribally relevant body even if your board isn't super-impressive. It can also kill through Worship, which is a corner case but worth mentioning for sheer hilarity.

I'm going to dissent here and say I think that going aggro is a better plan. The combo version with Cloudstone Curio/Eternal Witness has not had the same sort of results as just stomping on people's faces with green dudes. One of the strengths of the more aggressive version is that a lot of interaction is underwhelming against it. It plays around counterspells pretty easily, laughs at spot removal, and is still fast enough to kill before most non-red sweepers can do anything about it. It also doesn't care much about its graveyard, if it does at all.

Combo elves does not have these strengths, at least not to the same degree. At the same time, it has all the same weaknesses (soft to sweepers, minimally interactive).