Broken Branches
Casual
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Contributions —Feb. 18, 2012
I'd love to continue discussion on this deck, so absolutely feel free to ask/suggest anything, but I would also like to take a moment to thank everyone who has helped me with this build. I might fail in listing all of your names, but without your suggestions I might have never thought to use the following cards both currently and previously in my 75:
Bellowing Tanglewurm - Huge, unblockable armies are now my favorite win-con. - MagnaLynx21
Copperhorn Scout - I knew this card had some great and interesting interactions with other elves, but I feel bad for nay-saying her inclusion for so long. My eyes are now open. - MagnaLynx21, McChisel, others
Engulfing Slagwurm - This occasionally shows up in both sideboard and maindeck, depending on the state of the metagame at the time. - Ohthenoises
Naturalize - I was relying on Acidic Slime and Karn Liberated for my non-creature permanent smashing, but I underestimated how badly I'd need cheap, instant removal. Naturalize is often preferable to trying to power an ooze out with a 6-mana Green Sun's Zenith, especially when GSZs have so many other uses. - ItsAshcanPete, others
Phyrexian Metamorph - Kills legends, blocks Mirran Crusaders, is easy to cast and awesome. - OrgasmAndTea
Karn Liberated - Karn is my hero. Karn, Silver Golem was the first legendary creature I ever owned, so he deserved to be in the deck for old time's sake anyway. - cartwheelnurd, OrgasmAndTea, nostalgia
Other sources of inspiration: various Glissa Rock deck skeletons (which are all vastly different but got my brain thinking), Todd Anderson's SCG Open Richmond Mono-Green Aggro (some recent inspiration, mostly for sideboard ideas), Solomon's Elvés Accelerati (Mono-Green), and zandl's standard-elves-believe-it (if I had known the latter existed, it would have saved me a little work, haha).
Dozens of other suggestions have been made, including such things as Genesis Wave, Primeval Titan, Beast Within, etc., and I am always switching things out and playtesting. So if you think this deck is lacking some amazing card, please let me know! This is why I like this site so much!
OrgasmAndTea says... #2
I think I like G/B more than G/W. G/W is good and all, but it just doesn't have as much Glissa, the Traitor. Just for funsies, have you considered Deadly Allure and Lure?
I've seen you're considering Genesis Wave... to be honest I think this is a 'win more' kind of card. You'd need to cast with at least 6 mana to make sure you don't mill the likes of Ezuri etc, and if you wanna be extra safe at least 9 so that you don't bin Wurmcoil Engine. With that amount of mana, you should be winning already, and what else can you get for that amount of mana? Hey, wait a minute... where the heck is Karn Liberated?
February 13, 2012 9:17 a.m.
dorminjake says... #3
We are totally agreed on Genesis Wave. I just haven't bothered to remove it from the maybe board. Lure, etc. seems fun, and it's probably something I'll end up doing for laughs and to catch people off guard.
I'm trying the list without Karn Liberated for a bit, just to see how things go. If I miss him, I'll probably go -1 Glissa to put him back in.
dorminjake says... #1
This deck is back to being Green-black. I missed Glissa, the Traitor
too much, and she is too, too good when sideboarding in Ratchet Bomb
and Tumble Magnet
.
The current deck iteration is actually the first time the list has contained 20 elves, so this is actually the first time the deck has -technically- been an elf tribal deck, according to the arbitrary rules of the probably outdated Tribal Wars casual format. This is definitely an elf deck now.
February 13, 2012 1:37 a.m.