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Lands:
6 Forest
4 Llanowar Reborn
6 Plains
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
3 Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
Creatures:
2 Immaculate Magistrate
2 Imperious Perfect
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Llanowar Mentor
4 Selesnya Guildmage
3 Skyshroud Ranger
3 Thelonite Hermit
2 Triskelavus
2 Wren's Run Packmaster
Other Spells:
3 Ajani Goldmane
3 Doubling Season
1 Elvish Promenade
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Gilt-Leaf Ambush
1 Hoofprints of the Stag
1 Incremental Growth |
  A
Johnny Goldmine.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
Our next tag-team was determined by the card I'm going to use to enhance
them. A couple of readers pointed out the synergy. Nafthali W. wrote,
"Have you tried playing a planeswalker with Doubling Season in play?
With the exception of Jace, they'll be able to use their third move
immediately (Jace will have to wait one turn). As a bonus, Ajani would
make two [Avatar] tokens and his second ability would give two +1/+1
counters per creature." Another reader, Dan, wrote, "Note that Doubling
Season is also fabulous with planeswalkers, and Doubling Season with a
massive army of Merfolk is especially fabulous with Ajani Goldmane."
Basically, Doubling Season will make your planeswalkers come into
play with twice the normal amount of loyalty counters. Ajani will start
with eight, Liliana will start with ten, Jace with six, and so on. Note
that activating their loyalty-boosting abilities will not add twice the
counters because adding those counters is a cost and Doubling Season
only doubles counters that would be produced by an "effect." While
Nafthali preferred powering up Chandra Nalaar with Doubling Season (a
fine idea), I'm going to use both Garruk and Ajani. Why? Well, Doubling
Season doubles both your counter and token-production (I guess you could
say it's really counter-productive). Coincidentally, Garruk and Ajani
care about both of these things. The more tokens you have, the better
their mass-creature pump gets.
These days, pumping out tons of tons of tokens is the domain of the
Elves. Thelonite Hermit, Llanowar Mentor, Imperious Perfect, Wren's Run
Packmaster, Elvish Promenade, and Gilt-Leaf Ambush are all in Standard.
Going back a bit further gives us Selesnya Guildmage. Seriously, how
sick would Garruk and Ajani have been in Selesnya decks?
What you end up with is a token swarm deck. I made some room for some
one-ofs that seem nutty with Doubling Season, like Incremental Growth
and Hoofprints of the Stag. I also squeezed in cool little combo sent to
me by Efrén R.: "Immaculate Magistrate + MANY ELVES + Triskelion (or
Pentavus)." I definitely appreciate the enthusiasm for Elves, though I
split the difference and included Triskelavus who boasts the benefits of
both Triskelion and Pentavus in a single package.
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