Presents!!!

by Bobjoe56 on 20 December 2016

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Deck Description

This deck works by milling the opponent by making them draw lots of cards, until they can no longer draw cards. Jin is in there by flavor, making it so that they cannot have cards in hand.

How to Play

Start off by using Boundless Realms and Prosperity to get some ramp for Elves, and give the opponent a taste of what's to come. then proceed to use Stroke of genius, Zenith, and Vitalize in some major Wombo-combos. Jin would be a good idea to use after two straight Zenith's so they discard their entire hand at the end of their turn.

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Legacy

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Presents!!!

First, you are aware that Flash is banned in all formats? Okay, restricted in Vintage. But that's the reason why the deck is illegal in all formats. And it was banned specifically because of the interaction with Hulk. The decks would fetch a combination of creatures that kill instantly.

Secondly, it doesn't work the way you say. You can't get ALL elves with Hulk, you get any combination of creatures that has a total combined mana cost of 6 or less!

There are also some other issues:
* Blue Sun's Zenith costs 3 blue to start. With just 11 basic Islands that's a tough cookie. You basically need to also cast Boundless Realms. I don't know which format you are aiming for, but there are certainly better alternatives, Stroke of Genius for example.

* There is no way any opponent will give you the time to do all of this 3 times over without killing you or at least your elves! Especially since:

* Your only way to search for the Zenith is Bring to Light. However, you won't be able to target Zenith since your converge count will be 2. Even if you had more and could search for it: You play the card that Bring to Light fetches without paying it's mana cost - that means you cannot pay for X ! So it'll be a zero-Zenith!
And THAT means you just have to sit and wait until you drew 3 Zeniths?

* Choice of Elves. I know that this is probably just what you have. But maybe not. So, here a few tips and suggestions:
- Elvish Harbinger has to go - it costs three which is bad for Hulk and you don't need or even want his come-into-play-effect!
- Leaf Gilder should be Llanowar Elves/Fyndhorn Elves or something else for the same reason - you pay extra for that 2 power which you don't need.
- Rofellos
- Priest of Titania

* Bring to Light, as mentioned, can only fetch something costing equal or less than your converge count, which will be 2. That's enough to get Flash, but considering that Flash is illegal and that Hulk doesn't work the way you want to, you will most likely not use Bring to Light on Flash either, which renders the usefulness of this card to a very expensive elf-fetcher ...

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 08:52

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Thanks, I will modify this!
Do you know of a way to make the Idea work?
you can make a separate deck or just comment, that would be awesome!

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 13:45

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If you are okay with going Legacy you could use Prosperity as your main X-card-drawspell. The good thing is that you draw yourself as well. You still need a finisher of course, which could be 1 o2 2 Blue Sun's Zenith now, since you'll also draw into enough Islands. I still prefer Stroke of Genius, though, because mana requirement is easier und it is instant.

You could also use walls to generate mana (alongside elves). 4 x Overgrown Battlement + 4 Axebane Guardian can generate serious amounts of mana. Gaea's Cradle would kickstart mana production but I guess that's out of your budget. Finally, Vitalize would double all that mana.

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 14:58

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I think i actually own a few of Gaea's cradles

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 19:34

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You *think*? They are worth about 200$ apiece ... isn't that something you should know if you had them?

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 20:01

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I do not always realise the price of a card when i look at it, i must look through my cards once more for them.

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Posted 22 December 2016 at 20:02

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Interesting concept!

Properly tooled, this could be very unpleasant for an opponent! And yes, this could be made playable (particularly in casual)

So I will offer my ideas to see what flies.

With Axebane and overgrown battlement, I would think more defenders would be good. Wall of Blossoms and Carven Carytid both fit. They draw cards for you and, as walls, provide just as much mana as the elves do. this way you can save Prosperity for when you have more mana.

Also, if we take the mana elves out, we have room for some possible beaters. Something to keep the opponent busy while you steal his library. My thought on this is some cheap landfall critters. There could be an incredible upside to that if you have one or two out on the board when you cast boundless realms.

My choices for that are Lotus Cobra (a big mana payday to allow you to accelerate your admittedly expensive shenanigans), Turntimber Basilisk (for limited creature destruction), and Undergrowth Champion (just imagine how many counters you could get on that thing).

If the elves come out, then probably so should the vitalize. Perhaps consider 4 Hinterland Harbors, 7 Forest, 9 islands, 4 Evolving Wilds, 2 Gaea's Cradle. The hinterland harbors ensure that you still have the same green vs blue mana ratio and the evolving wilds help to get all those islands to cast Blue Sun. A small added benefit of using Evolving Wilds is that, with Landfall creatures, it will count as 2 lands entering the battlefield.

Hope this helps!

Excelsior,

Shinza

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Posted 02 January 2017 at 05:27

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Btw, +1 for your deck.

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Posted 02 January 2017 at 05:28

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