Elvish Swarm!

by ComradeJonathan on 06 May 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

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Deck Description

Constantly Generate mana, gain an extraordinary amount of life and generate extremely powerful tokens. Most of these cards are extremely effective without costing too much money.

How to Play

ideally you should start with two forests, an elvish mystic/arbor elf, and an elvish archdruid. From there on out lands won't really need to be drawn. From there tokens are generated rapidly with a combo from these two to four cards: Imperious prefect, rhys the redeemed, lys alana huntsman, and seeker of skybreak.

Elvish promenade and coat of arms should be seen as "finishers"

Optional cards: Wellwisher and Nissa Revane may be switched out. This deck model is based on a defensive model rather than offensive.

possible alternatives: If you find yourself having issue with mill decks, or stale mate games use Bow of Nylea. If you find yourself having issue with drawing cards, try slate of ancestry.

advice: don't attack all at once, particularly against blue or black decks. Perhaps have half your tokens or less declare combat.
-buy fetchlands if possible, but they're extremely expensive

Worries: board wipes

disregard: counter cards (always more elves to draw), shrivel (lots of global counters stacked).

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Elvish Swarm!

Rhys is legendary and Nissa is a planeswalker. Due to legend and 'walker rules, you can only have 1 out at a time, making any extra copies in hand 'dead card's. I'd reduce these to 3x at most.

Seeker of Skybreak and Wellwisher are preventing this deck from beginning Modern legal. Essence Warden does similar to Wellwisher and Umbral Mantle can untap the equipped creature.

Other cards you may want to consider:
Heritage Druid - lots more mana. You can tap creatures with summoning sickness to its ability.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader / Joraga Warcaller - more use for the excessive mana.
Gilt-leaf Ambush - instant speed 2 1/1 elves with a chance of temporary deathtouch. Also as a Scry type effect.
Druids' Deliverance - sideboard card. Fog with Populate on it.
Sundering Growth - sideboard card. Naturalise with Populate on it.

Personally I'm not that fond of Coat of Arms. I prefer Door of Destinies, but in an elf deck, Ezuri, Renegade Leader and Joraga Warcaller do a better job, imo.

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Posted 06 May 2015 at 09:09

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