Gilder Buddies

Casual Budget Casual Combo Counters GU (Simic) Theme/Gimmick

BlueEyesRedMage

Instant (8)

• 4x Brainstorm
• 4x Counterspell

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Utopia Vow

Artifact (6)

• 2x Darksteel Reactor
• 4x Paradise Mantle

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Creature (13)

• 2x Chasm Skulker
• 2x Fathom Mage
• 4x Gilder Bairn
• 3x Ludevic's Test Subject  ^Flip
• 2x Sphinx of Magosi

Land (25)

• 4x Forest
• 15x Island
• 2x Rogue's Passage
• 4x Temple of Mystery

Unknown (4)

• 4x Training Ground

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Deprive

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit

Creature (3)

• 1x Nimbus Swimmer
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Polukranos, World Eater

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Gilder Buddies!

This right here is the upcoming list for my girlfriend's deck built around counters and spearheaded by the cutest little ouphe ever Gilder Bairn!

With a Training Grounds on the field and a Paradise Mantle or Utopia Vow slapped on our little frog suited buddy, we can make infinite counters on anything! Creatures, artifacts, planeswalker, lands...you name it!

After tapping for mana, Gilder Bairn can then pay to untap using that mana he just made, and if his ability is reduced in cost to just 1 mana then things really get kicking.

Right now, the deck plays fairly defensively until it can either

a) make a creature infinity big or

b) make krakens with Kiora

...which as far as ways to win go are pretty damn awesome. Even without the full combo, a single Paradise Mantle can make Gilder Bairn go with only 2 more mana needed each activation. Even at 1/2 activations a turn, that's still pretty dang impressive. Worst comes to worst, our little Bairn can just attack to become tapped :P

The third way the deck can win is via the two copies of Darksteel Reactor. These bad boys will let the deck win instantly, granted you can get just a single counter on them first. From there, Gilder Bairn and his combo can do the rest.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.45
Tokens	Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Kraken 9/9 U, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Casual Decks, Budget Decks