I love Loam decks and before DRS was banned I was considering making one. I see only one problem with this perfect deck: You have 59 cards in the mainboard. Other than that it's lookin' mighty fine.

Jacques

Yeah, There's supposed to be 26 lands. The site never updates the list when I change it, apparently. Thanks for pointing that out!

I gold fished you deck a little, and like it quite a bit. One thing I found though is I was often wanting more green sources of mana.

Might it better to replace the Svogthos with a Tree Top Village?It would give you another green source, and is just a better man land.

I think you could use a few more lands in general. Maybe cut some other cards like a few flame jabs and or ravens crimes, maybe even worm harvest.

Have you tried the crushers main deck? It has a lot of synergy in the deck, and it can get out of hand fast.

bogtrog

I've hardly even gotten all of the pieces to this deck in the mail yet, so I haven't gotten to live test it at all.

In regards to Treetop Village , I wanted to get a playset, but I was far too stingy to shell out the whole dollar apiece for them... After I lose with this build enough times, i'll probably get a playset, but for now, I want to see how it goes without.

Right now, I feel that the Seismic Assault main is enough for game one, and the crushers can come in later. Like Pack Rat in standard, I just don't want to be devoting myself to it every game.

Just did some major overhauls, and I feel that this deck is finally tournament ready. I'm not saying that it'll take down a GP, but I believe it'll do well at your local event. Tell me what you guys think!

This deck has pequed my interest! Would you mind giving me a run down of how this works? Any interesting combos with this deck? What is a keepable hand and what isn't? I am considering building a deck like this and I would love to know how to work it! Thanks and a +1 in advance!

Any filter lands? Like the black green one? Or black red? I feel as though all these dual black sources could be rounded out with a filter land. Just a suggestion?

3n3rgy2

Thanks! Glad you like it.

To start the game off, it really doesn't matter if you go first or second. That shouldn't influence your decision to keep or mull. The god hand in this deck, if I could pick 7 cards, would be Blood Crypt , Raven's Crime , Copperline Gorge , Life from the Loam , Seismic Assault , Mountain , Mountain . Just play your hand out in that order, and you pretty much have the game. A non-keepable hand would be one that has less than 2 lands, or less than 3 lands that are off-color to the cards in your hand. You just can't keep a hand with 2 swamps as your only mana sources. Use the fetch lands to your advantage early game, and loam them back to find all of your basics early. Because apparently Blood Moon can be a thing.

There aren't any interesting combos, per say, but the deck just wins off of synergies. Between Worm Harvest , Seismic Assault , and Countryside Crusher , you have so many options to just drown them in card advantage. Everything plays off of each other, and you have the option to do whatever you need to every turn. Playing big zoo? Pick off their dudes as soon as they play them with Seismic Assault . Playing UWR? pick off their hand with Raven's Crime , then Flame Jab them to death for the lols.

Some key moves would be to use Faithless Looting or Life from the Loam as quickly as possible to start filling up your grave. I've loamed for 1, even though that isn't the full potential of the card, it helped me because I then dredged into 3 lands. Heck, i've gotten away with playing loam for 0 just to get it in the yard. Also, remember that you have man-lands. They provide great blockers in a pinch, and can be a great source of beat down if you want to get things over with quickly.

As for your comment about filter lands, I don't think that they're necessary. The mana is super tight as it is, so I would just be adding to the budget. Also, this is, at it's core, a red deck, so G/B lands won't be too much help in the end.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!

Awesome! I LOVE it! I'm looking to put a little more money into this deck by adding 2 Liliana of the Veil and possibly going to a Playset of Countryside Crusher

Lili's good. Definitely has a place here. I don't know about the 2 more crushers though. It's something worth testing out, definitely.

I remember back in 2012 the champions deck had 4 of the crushers in it as well as lilliana. Plus my playgroup plays removal and control so its in my best interest to run 4.

Here is what I came up with, with heavy inspiration from your deck. Loam retrace!

So I literally just realized tonight that you can dredge off of Faithless Looting ...

I may have to change my gameplan up a bit to accommodate this. Thinking also about making a more dredge-centric deck that uses more things like Golgari Thug . Thoughts?

Wow Magic

needs Young Pyromancer

PooPlayer

Could you explain the benefit of YoungPeezy in this build? I'm not seeing why / how he fits in here.

makes you a tonne of tokens, a friend has a loam deck and uses them to great effect