Varchild's Rampage Lure - 60

Oh boy, the old Rampage mechanic. Ok, give me a little bit and I'll check it out.

Much appreciated dknight27 as always!

Anon threw out some good ones to consider. I'd add Nemesis Mask as one of the good options for a lure source that isn't actually Lure.

That being said, there's only 2 real ways to build a rampage deck I can see. The first is what you're going for here, throw in a bunch of rampage critters with lures and buffs and let them get to work. The problem with this build is that rampage critters are very, very slow, and deal next to no damage if they aren't blocked, and even then they need trample. More on this in a second.

The second way is to do a spawn build that gives opponent critters and then forces those critters to block your rampage critters, significantly ramping up their damage, and making sure they have trample. You've already got War-Riders which does this perfectly, but you can add to that with Forbidden Orchard, which would give you 8 sources of token spawning, which should be enough to get you across the finish line. However, there's another nasty combo you can pull off with this, by playing Living Plane that would let you kill all of opponent's lands this way, but it's like $250.00 a pop, and I assume that's well outside the price range. That being said, imagine your Gorilla Berserkers swings with Lure into four 1/1's you've spawned with Forbidden Orchard over 4 turns. The Gorilla goes up +8/+8 just on the tokens (not counting what else opponent has), and you're hitting opponent for a minimum of 6 damage. If you can get it up to 8 tokens and a few other critters from opponent, you've got basically an OTK.

I'd generally suggest going for the token spawning build here, as its a guaranteed way to get damage cooking much more quickly than a build without it. Again, the problem with rampage critters is that they are very slow, and deal next to no damage on their own, giving opponent all the time in the world to find a way around/through them. This build would significantly speed up that clock. Incidentally, the token spawning works perfectly with Defense of the Heart, which will fetch your War-Riders to make tokens and your Gorilla for trample damage.

I'd advise cutting quite a few cards, as they are either too expensive or don't really fit.

Teeka's Dragon has flying, so putting Lure on it is sort of a waste of time as it can't be blocked by most critters. Plus it costs an arm and a leg. Crawlspace and Dolmen Gate are fun cards, but are unnecessary in the build as is. You are gunna kill all of opponent's critters with rampage damage, you don't need to worry about protecting your critters from attack damage (rampage does that) or opponent swarming you (your critters will protect you/out race opponent). Kusari-Gama just eats too much mana and you get the same effect from a Lure, except you can also get rampage damage with trample off the lure, which is much better. Goblin War-Drums is a nice idea, but you get a better effect with a Lure (same logic as above). The Locus lands are nice in theory, but since the producer comes in tapped and neither produces any colors, they are really a net negative. Cutting down the curve would serve the same purpose, as would adding in cards like Sol Ring (if you don't care about legality) or Mind Stone.

Instead, I'd max out General Marhault, Retaliation, Primal Rage, Tempting Licid, and throw in 2 copies of Predatory Rampage.

GOLD! Thank you so much dknight27! I'll get to work with this advice. This is exactly the feedback I was hoping for and is what I'm targeting with this deck. :)

Thanks Anon88! Will definitely look into those.