Featuring Hydras, Oases, Naga Explorers, and of course the beautiful, sprawling, desolate sands.
Have a one of
Sandwurm Convergence
to shut down all these white decks full of fliers that are light on the enchant removal.
Good curve: Vessel > Vessel Activation > Excavator/Rhonas/Tracker > Hydra/Tracker + Land > ANYTHING. At this point, you start ramping, getting in lots of damage, and holding a strong defense with your nice big hydra. Saccing a Sunscorched Desert or two to Ramunap Ruins then putting them back in with Reclamation or Excavator just to do it again can mean a LOT of damage late game, oft times meaning a victory if your opponent is at 10 or less.
Sideboard:
Appetite for the Unnatural: good against white decks running Cast Out, or anything using artifacts.
Hour of Devastation: Good against almost everything. Planeswalkers, tokens, mid range, can help kill the odd 6 toughness thing after combat as well.
Plummet
: Can kill an Avacyn with her trigger on the stack, Angel of Sanctions, opposing Glorybringer, any number of other things. The deck is light on fliers, and if I'm behind on my desert production, Ramunap Hydra might not be big enough to take care of bigger flying threats.
Prowling Serpopard: Easy against control. Can recur with a grapple as well if it gets prioritized as a removal target. Wonderful card.
Pulse of Murasa: More creature recursion against removal heavy decks. Substantial life gain and creature recursion against aggressive decks.
Shefet Monitor
: Mainly used for the instant speed draw card + land cycle, and can be returned with grapple for big value. Getting this late game after clearing the board or something and sticking it could be very nice though. Might side it in versus grindy mid range match ups.
