how can i counter a mono green populate deck?
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Posted on March 28, 2013, 11:29 a.m. by kingjustice
so i just got into magic and i'm already hooked on it, but i was wondering how do i beat a green populate deck? i was thinking about building a mono black board sweep cause i love black, espically the art, but would that be useful in anyway? any help would be great thnx!!
Absinthman says... #3
This question is better suited for the forums. Q&A section deals with rules related questions.
Also, there is no general answer to this question. If you want to beat a token deck, try and focus on things that somehow interact with tokens. If you want to play black, Illness in the Ranks
could be one of your cards (but it's rather weak in my opinion). You could use also Mutilate
. If you want to run red, you can try and build a fast weenie deck with Legion Loyalist
that will prevent your opponent's tokens from blocking, while you use burn spells like Searing Spear
and Mizzium Mortars
to get rid of other pesky creatures. Possibilities are vast.
March 28, 2013 11:46 a.m.
Absinthman says... #4
Also Homing Lightning
deals with tokens splendidly. They all share a name, as Alonzo has pointed out.
The examples I'm providing are all for standard (type 2) format. If you're playing modern or something else, the pool of cards you can choose from is enormous.
March 28, 2013 11:48 a.m.
Absinthman says... #5
I mean, they share the name if they have been populated. If a card says "put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield", it creates a token named Beast (also with the type Beast). So if you target one Beast token with Homing Lightning , all other Beast tokens will be affected too.
March 28, 2013 11:57 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
Do you have a specific format in mind or is this just casual?
March 28, 2013 3:19 p.m.
I second Illness in the Ranks and Homing Lightning if you're just getting into Magic. Both these cards are easy to find. Illness in the Ranks is especially brutal against tokens.
Grimaldii says... #2
Populate, as in tokens? I keep a few Echoing Truth around for that, as it bounces all permanents with the same name, for instance, ALL Saproling tokens, and a token obviously doesn't go back to the hand, so it destroys them. That's just an example of one card though.
March 28, 2013 11:40 a.m.