Stomp'd

Yeah, naturally. I actually haven't gotten around to making my sideboard for this and a few of my other decks. Any that are either empty or have a bunch of Cheatyface (which I do carry around in my deckbox) have unfinished sideboards.

I use Relentless Rats myself, though cheatyface is much more amusing.

You bet he is! When my opponent has to take a phone-call or goes to the bathroom, they often come back to a swarm of 15 2/2 flyers =]

Eh, the last one did I think. The deck kept getting liked...so I knew it would happen sooner or later, but the waiting was killing me. =P

If it had "super-shroud" then I would in a heartbeat. However, since I also can't target it...not my preference. That said, some people probably wouldn't mind it, and it IS a stompy card =]

Stompy means that you use mana to its perfect efficancy every turn. Wasted mana is "shameful". It's one of the reasons that stompy is so fast. Additionally, stompy is big and ugly for as low a cost as you can find. The modern day stompy staple creature is Leatherback Baloth. It has no abilities at all, but in my standard stompy it's on the field turn 2 as a 4/5. The first stompy staple was Rogue Elephant...a 3/3 for 1 green that made you sac. the land you used for it. As far as I know, this card is where stompy got its name. In a Simpsons episode, a "rogue elephant" named Stompy is terrorizing the town.

Stompy is obviously mono-green.

Stompy also almost never has anything that costs more that 4-5 mana. The exception to this is things that allow you to cheat them in, or VERY RARELY things that are like...6 mana but are very powerful in the deck. Again, this is rare and you need to be positive it's ok. Even then, only 2 of them could be allowed in. There's been some in the past, but the new best one in my opinion is Khalni Hydra.

Stompy usually has lots of crazy pumps. A stompy deck should be able to kill someone with it's "mana elf" if it wants to.

Stompy has some consequential card drawing. What this means is it forces the opponent to decide whether to get hit hard or give you card advantage. Old school stompy used Skull Clamp. Now that card is taken up by Infiltration Lens.

Now, to go back to the perfect mana effieciency thing. This doesn't just mean using every last bit of mana ever turn. It also means getting the most out of that mana. For example, in most cases a 2/2 or 2/3 for 3 is thought of as 1 or "1/2" wasted mana. Or a 1/1 for 2 is another 1 wasted mana.

So when you pay 3 mana for a 4/5 like Leatherback...well that's 3 mana "surplus" and none wasted.

Now, I've made the argument before (and am sort of making it again after seeing one dude's deck) that Naya (actual Naya, not just the colors associated.) could be loosely considered acceptable as Stompy despite being multicolored.

A prime example of this is Woolly Thoctar. He's essentially a backwards Leatherback Baloth.

Remember, this does not mean Naya is stompy. It simply means that some Naya-based decks could, in my opinion, be Stompy.

Thanks dude, I appreciate it. And I hope that my explanation helped you to understand stompy and maybe even make one of your own. =]

Yes, and no. Kalonian Behemoth is in a list of cards called "Fat-stompy". They're above the normal restrictions Stompy has on mana costs (max 4-5), but are undoubtedly Stompy in nature. These guys are sometimes still included in a Stompy if they work well enough and it's truly worth it to the player (but never more than 2 are added).

I have a deck called "Chunky", which is not really a stompy deck, but what I would make if "Fat-stomp" was a real Stompy sub-type.

It's a way to protect against certain types of removal, etc. Things like Memoricide, Extirpate, Maelstrom Pulse, etc.

4 life is nothing to Stompy. One extra mana efficiency as well as one turn faster artifact/enchantment hate is much more powerful than you might think.

@ mcphattus, I'll give it a look =]

Unless you can do well with dropping a single land on your second turn, a 3/3 on turn one will give most people a heart attack. This guy doesn't just kill-swap with a Goblin Guide, it kills them! If you feel shakey about the 18 lands, then take out 2 of the 4 Overwhelming Stampedes and put in 2 more lands. Obviously, you need to be careful with Rogue Elephants, but once you get the "feel" for them, you'll see why this great deck style was named after them (sorta). Kavu Predator is an excellent Stompy creature, especially if lifegain is dominant in your meta. As for EH...I've heard arguments for and against him for use in Stompy. I think it really depends on the type of creatures you're running. With this deck...I don't really think he's needed. You have a TON of trample threat in this deck. =]