A fun byproduct in-game, is that if you strategically place the stuffy doll your opponents will go out of their way to protect you since their opponents can attack your dolls to bypass their defenses. It was fun the first time an opponent attacked with a large trampeler that I hadn't dealt with yet and he assigned all the damage to the stuffy doll instead of letting it carry over to me and took out one of the other players lol.
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Good Point, I figured it would be safe since he doesn't play a lot of counters (more control and bounce), but might as well avoid the risk if possible.
I'll ignore the language at this point, but if you would take the time to actually look at the deck you would notice that I took some of your advice from the forum and added. Kodama's Reach Juniper Order Ranger Mirrari's Wake Skyshroud Claim Avenger of Zendikar; and Oracle of Mul Daya I also purchased Grave Pact, Martyr's Bond, Oblivion Stone, Aura Shards, Praetor's Counsel, and White Sun's Zenith, for possible future inclusion. I'll apologize for not Thanking you on the forum, but after seeing 90-100 people view the forum and only 1 comment you'll forgive me if I count it as a loss and stop checking it. Please don't post any more profanity laced comments on my deck, thank you. (side note you tracking people down from the forum in order to cuss them out on the internet does not encourage use of the forums, just saying
Included more ramp spells, and I went with some more Tutors for the time being because I'm playing against a very nasty Niv-Mizzet deck at the moment that needs to be taken down a peg or two. Let me know what you think when you get a chance.
I am actually getting ready to purchase some cards for the deck and was thinking of picking up Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, and Cruel Tutor to search, would you recommend card draw instead of tutors? Thank you for pointing out the lack of mana ramp, I'm putting in a caged sun and I'll try and browse through my current cards to find more ramp. That seems to be my problem is that I don't have much problem identifying good combos, but I don't notice the catch the utility cards that I need to get to the combos, mana ramp, card draw, etc... I'll post an updated deck as soon as I get it put together, please continue to comment as you have the time it would be a great help.
Just curious as to the process for this being infinite mana? Argothian Elder taps to untap two lands which would be wirewood lodge and your extra land (forest). He is now tapped and in order to untap him you have to pay a green and tap wirewood lodge to untap him. So it doesn't seem like this accumulates any mana it just keeps recycling it. I had seen this combo before I just didn't see how it was really beneficial.
I've found that a couple of Wirewood channelers and a couple of fireballs is a sneaky combo for an elf deck no one ever sees it coming and then you hit them for 30-40 damage. :)
Ok, just an idea I had after continuously losing from creatures while trying to mill. Panoptic Mirror+ Damnation gives me the option of wiping the board of creatures at the beginning of my upkeep which will present a big obstacle to creature based decks if I can keep it in play. Hopefully, Counterspells and Terror/Doom Blade + Isochron Scepter will provide some defense in early game. Avatar of Woe is in to take advantage of milled creatures and in case I lose Panoptic Mirror +Damnation combo I can still kill off harmful creatures. I would use go for the throat instead of terror if I had it. And of course the classic Panoptic Mirror + Traumatize to irritate. The rest is pretty much self explanatory, keep the board free of creatures and mill out opponents.
Ok, I generally play 4 player free-for-all with some friends and I get smashed just about every time I play this deck (for some reason one little Panoptic Mirror + Traumatize combination and everyone's out for blood lol) I put Avatar of Woe to take advantage of creature cards that have been milled out. My main problem is a lack of defense. I played Uncle Istvaan and Fog Bank for awhile, but they were dealt with pretty easily. I've considered Damnation but its a bit pricey at the moment. I play for fun, but I'd like to be able to win once in a while, not asking much I don't think lol. I put in the Isochron Scepter to try and get as much bang for my buck out of Doom Blade/Terror or Counterspell.