Crazy big tokens!
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Oath of the Ancient Wood+Satyr Nyx-Smith or Felhide Spiritbinder? Let me pick my jaw up from the floor. Yup, and thats what I based a lot of my deck around. Essentially Oath of the Ancient Wood allows you to put a +1/+1 counter on target creature when an enchantment enters the battlefield.
When Satyr Nyx-Smith becomes untapped you can pay 2R to put an ENCHANTMENT elemental with haste onto the battlefield. And if you add Strionic Resonator to the mix you now have 2x 4/2 OR 5/3 and 2/1 elementals with haste! Then throw on Alpha Authority and he suddenly becomes very hard to deal with.
When Felhide Spiritbinder becomes untapped you can copy ANY targetable creature on the battlefield for 1R (reduced to 1 CMC with Karametra's Favor cast on him). This copy is an ENCHANTMENT, so combined with Oath of the Ancient Wood this makes something grow +1/+1. So if you copy Felhide Spiritbinder, and then add the counter to the copy, the copy is a 4/5 creature! Then Strionic Resonator that stuff! Note, copy gets exiled, so usually better to grow something else.
Furthermore, if you have Purphoros, God of the Forge out you deal 2 damage to player when a creature enters the battlefield so the above situations would deal 4 damage. Though dont worry if you cannot line up the perfect situation above, because Strionic Resonator can double his effect for 4 damage to have even a cheap Everflame Eidolon, Nyxborn Rollicker, or
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enter the battlefield. It should also be noted that Purphoros, God of the Forge counts as an ENCHANTMENT!
Then Karametra's Favor // Dragon Mantle+Strionic Resonator means 2 card draw! And they cheaply trigger Oath of the Ancient Wood! The Karametra's Favor has the extra benefit of safely tapping our Satyr Nyx-Smith//Felhide Spiritbinder before our turn, and once he untaps on our turn we tap him again for mana thus making their Inspired ability 1 cheaper!
Savage Summoning in general can help your creatures along against control. I particularly like to use it in combination with Deadly Recluse since it flashes it onto the battlefield to surprise remove their Desecration Demon, Herald of Torment, Stormbreath Dragon, etc.
Everflame Eidolon I dont think gets the credit it deserves. Great card with built in Dragon Mantle that can pass it on for a relatively cheap bestow. This means it doesnt have the power to be targeted by Elspeth, Sun's Champion until you attack or block, and is resistant to Last Breath.
Another good aspect of this deck is that it is resistant to Lifebane Zombie since only
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and Deadly Recluse are green. And all our creatures can either chump block or destory Blood Baron of Vizkopa especially with the pumping abilities.
If you have a Oath of the Ancient Wood and a Strionic Resonator out, dont be sad if all your good creatures have been destroyed! Even a simple Nyxborn Rollicker becomes a 3/3 for 3 total CMC when the resonator doubles Oath of the Ancient Wood.
Sylvan Caryatid is the great assistor. Assists with extra mana for the Strionic Resonator/Dragon Mantle/Satyr Nyx-Smith/Everflame Eidolon and allows aura casting after drawing them due to Resonator combo mentioned earlier.
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can be a great blocker against aggro, and hard to target by removal.
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Thinking of playing a Druid's Deliverance somewhere to add a copy of the Felhide Spiritbinder's token onto the battlefield that wont be exiled and will further grow the Oath of the Ancient Wood and activate Purphoros, God of the Forge. Other options are Sundering Growth and Growing Ranks. Especially with the Growing Ranks its own entry would trigger Oath of the Ancient Wood. All you would have to specify is that at beginning of the upkeep have Growing Ranks trigger first, then trigger felhide spirit binder next on the stack so you make a token and then copy that token, and then activate 2x Oath of the Ancient Wood for the 2 enchantment creature tokens.
