2 Scroll Rack
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Whetstone
4 Birds Of Paradise
4 Llanowar Druid
2 Skyshroud Elf
2 Thelonite Hermit
4 Life And Limb
2 Early Harvest
1 Gaea's Blessing
4 Supply / Demand
4 Concordant Crossroads
20 Forest
4 Temple Garden
2 Gaea's Cradle |
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Description of deck by its author (quoted):
We have six untapping effects: four Llanowar
Druids and two Early Harvests. I like that sort of duplication of effect
in a deck like this. The Druids' tap abilities are mana-less, and don't
detract from the mad mana production, therefore they are the card in
higher numbers.
There are also six Saproling-production cards. The four
Supply / Demands that were mentioned above are the real power of the deck.
As an adjunct, I've included a pair of Thelonite Hermits, which will both
pump the Saprolings as well as make a few more. They can pump your team
for when you make a big swing, as well as keep everybody steady by making
more Saprolings.
Please note that this combo deck is interesting because
when you combo out, you kill everybody at the table while also having a
horde of creatures to kill anybody not killed by your normal method. This
is a multiplayer deck, and you can tell because of Whetstone, a milling
apparatus that will kill everybody. You will need to activate it between
twenty and twenty three times to mill all sixty-card decks. Obviously, if
your table is full of decks with a 250+ size, then you need to select
other kill methods. I like the Whetstone because it takes out all players
at the same time.
To prevent the Whetstone from killing you, I've provided
several options. You have one additional card, which may allow you to
survive against sixty-card decks with just one card left in your library.
I also have a single copy of Gaea's Blessing. Mill it, and your graveyard
is shuffled back into your library. If you draw it, put it back with a
Scroll Rack before Whetting. Even if you mill all of your cards, everybody
else who is milled will likely die on their draw step as they go to draw a
card and fail. If nothing goes wrong, you everybody should die before you
have to draw a card and die as well. Finally, if you have out Scroll Rack
and at least one card in hand, you can never die from a single card draw,
because you can switch the cards in hand with those in your library and
add cards to your library.
Birds of Paradise and Skyshroud Elves are available to
help speed up your mana development as well as to give you a solid chance
at the White mana the Supply needs. I wouldn't drop a Concordant
Crossroads early, leaving it until the very last minute, and then playing
the Crossroads just before you go off. To help you find the cards you
need, I added the aforementioned Scroll Racks as well as a pair of
Divining Tops. Hopefully you'll get at least one of these artifacts out
and working for you as you dig ever deeper in an attempt to get your combo
on. Life and Limb is an odd card, certainly. Building a deck around it is
a lot of fun. Another option I was considering was to go the Fungal Bloom
/ Thallid path. However, I think the above deck is probably better. You
could also explore a Heartbeat of Spring option.
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