elvish swarm/token/beatdown

beast628 · Joined: 08 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

I have been out of the game for 2 almost 3 years i saw some great deck ideas but this one just clicked so well or so i think and i would love opinions. [list=] Lands: 18xforest 4x treetop village creatures:32 4x llanowar elves 4x twinblade slasher 4x bramblewood paragon 4x wren's run vanquisher 4x imperious perfect 4x wolf-skull shaman 4xelvish champion 4x wilt-leaf liege Spells:6 2x Coat of arms 4x hurricane sideboard:15 4x elvish harbinger 1x immaculate magistrate 4x nettle sentinel 4x snakeform 2x elvish promenade

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noobmellow · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 200

see my elfball post. turn 3 infinite win playing infinite cards infinite mana life damage removal bounce discard draw. be greedy!!!

ILikeBananas · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 194

A good beatdown deck needs a way to survive mass removal which is rampant in this meta. Wrath of God, Volcanic Fallout, infest, firespout, and sometimes even pyroclasm. You want to have some gas left after these are cast. The problem with elves is that they are small so ANY mass removal will wipe the board clean. Some things to consider....

1. Add treetop villages. These let you attack even when you lose all your creatures

2. Coat of arms. Elves are good at making tokens. And coat of arms will make them big enough to be outside mass burn range. You still have problems with wrath of god. Consider Door of Destinies.

3. Go comboish and do the Heritage druid elf deck thing.

4. Splash black for Prowess of the fair. Get a token whenever an elf dies.

Hope that helps. G/B elves was a tier 1 archtype not too long ago. It wasn't elves based the same way your deck is. It's just a good collection of cards that happened to be elves. Colossus, nameless inversion, civic wayfinder, etc. plus some power spells like profane command.

boeda · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 98

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coolcreep · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 560

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