kaim_arouet

Thank you!

So you think at a tournament, with thousands of dollars on the line, judges would allow hundreds of players to repeatedly break the rules? Yea, that makes sense.

He's not casting it at all, he's putting it directly into the battlefield. You're allowed to put lands directly onto the battlefield through effects. The effect of Green Sun Zenith resolving is to put a green creature onto the battlefield. It was a major reason NO RUG was allowed to exist in Legacy.

Here's an forum post exactly about this.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=371246

I'm not a huge fan of that mana base. I think 4 vault is way too many since you have so many double costs in the early turns.

So liquidmetal one of their basic lands and blow them out?

He doesn't break a single one of those rulings. He is a creature as well as a land, and he is using a spell to bring it to the battlefield. The ruling that supports that is "305.4. Effects may also allow players to "put" lands onto the battlefield. This isn't the same as "playing a land" and doesn't count as a player's one land played during his or her turn."

You realize this is a very common play in Legacy, and no judge has ever said you can't do it. In the reasoning to ban Green Sun's Zenith from Modern, Wizards even said "On turn one, this can give the acceleration of a Llanowar Elves by getting a Dryad Arbor" as a direct quote from http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/161b&dcmp=ilc-mtgrss

If the mothership used it as an example to ban a card, seems like it'd be legal.

Unmask in the main? That's kinda new.

Goblin Piledriver?

He never said he was tapping it turn one for mana.
Forest, tap, GSZ for Arbor, end turn. Nothing is breaking a rule.

Green Sun's Zenith?

Because it's absolutely legal. Dryad Arbor is a green creature, therefore targetable by Green Sun's Zenith.

Mind Funeral?

Should've picked the most expensive version of each card.

In green there's Food Chain and perilous forays

Honestly this looks more like a Modern deck than a Legacy one, and I'm not certain it's strong enough for Modern even.

It does the same amount of damage for more mana.

Either way, Flame Rift is too good to not play.

Or flame javelin

Flame Rift?

Emrakul shouldn't come out. It's a great end to the Elf Ball.

Figure becomes the same size, but with first strike instead of trample. But he's a one drop, and can turn into it at instant speed.