GRW Solution

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Hi i always liked solution decks and heres my take on one for extended:

// Lands
4 [ZEN] Arid Mesa
3 [ZEN] Misty Rainforest
3 [ZEN] Verdant Catacombs
2 [GP] Stomping Ground
2 [RAV] Temple Garden
2 [RAV] Sacred Foundry
2 [ALA] Forest (3)
2 [ZEN] Marsh Flats
2 [MR] Plains (1)

// Creatures
2 [SHM] Kitchen Finks
1 [SOK] Kataki, War's Wage
1 [ALA] Ranger of Eos
1 [LRW] Mirror Entity
1 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
1 [FD] Eternal Witness
4 [9E] Kird Ape
4 [ZEN] Lotus Cobra
1 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
1 [LRW] Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 [ARB] Dauntless Escort
1 [DIS] Loaming Shaman
4 [ALA] Wild Nacatl
1 [FUT] Magus of the Moon
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
1 [ALA] Realm Razer

// Spells
4 [RAV] Chord of Calling
3 [CFX] Path to Exile
2 [BOK] Umezawa's Jitte

// Sideboard
SB: 2 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
SB: 1 [BOK] Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 2 [ZEN] Ravenous Trap
SB: 2 [RAV] Loxodon Hierarch
SB: 4 [ZEN] Summoning Trap
SB: 2 [TSP] Ancient Grudge
SB: 1 [ALA] Caldera Hellion
SB: 1 [ALA] Realm Razer

The deck isnt heavily tested, but did pretty well as far as i can tell. Cobra realy shines against combo to give and speed boost to either kill them quickly or chord of a 1 of solution. The 1 ofs should be pretty self explaining as is the sideboard. The hole deck is kind of straight forward. I would love to know what you guys think. And yes i know it looks alot like zoo but it has alot more flexibility in it.
Well would love to hear your opinions.

KeySam

jonproject · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 250

I REALLY like this deck. Have you considered Ranger of Eos, even as a singleton?

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Haha funny before i read your post i added it and kicked a land to not get flooded too often(it happened from time to time).

Thanks for the reply though.

jonproject · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 250

Haha sounds good. Are you sure 23 lands might be one too many? Stock Zoo decks (that I've played, at least) have had 22 lands and that always seems to be the perfect number to get to 4 mana consistently. I can see needing to pay for Chord of Calling, but it does have convoke to ease that. Perhaps a single Kataki, War's Wage for the Affinity MU by shaving a land?

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Yea i forgot kataki seems like a good silber bullet. I ll try it. Thanks for the reply. But i am not sure i want 22 lands, but i test it too.

KeySam

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 1009

Gaddock Teeg seems ok. I'm not sure if caldera helion is good. 8 mana to tutor him and he wipes all your guys too.

xFreefallx · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

He doesn't exactly kill all your guys, it just eats them and they turn into +1/+1 counters as he devours your own guys, so you get a huge red beater and clear their board. I really like the deck very interesting and versatile.

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

I dislike gaddock teeg because he only realy shines against tron and the against the rest hes pretty irrelevant and he shuts down chord.
THe Caldera hellion is there if the game stall against zoo to get a huge advantage. And with convoke its not that hard to get out in those situations.

KeySam

Thicket · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 80

I've never heard of a Solution Deck. From context I'm guessing it's kind of a basic zoo-ish build with a bunch of 1-ofs to act as "solutions" to whatever situations may come up with chords to tutor them as needed?

Am I hot? cold? Either way, this is kind of cool. Nice Smile

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Solution usualy stands for a deck with a lots of 1 of able to search up to answer a wide spread of situation that comes up. e.G.: UWB with trinket mage was called uwb solution, because they could tutor up a lot of different silver bullets for each matchup. This deck uses chord of calling as the search engine, while putting it in a zoo shell.

KeySam

Thicket · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 80

Ahhh, very nice! I play Zoo myself, and love tutoring effects. Sounds fun! Whats the game plan if you draw bullets for situations that arent really manifest in a current game? Or I guess maybe that's what you sideboard to prevent? Still a pretty cool idea, I dig it.

Out of curiosity, in your testing, what have you found you end up chording for most often?

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Hi well game 1 you can just play the bullet after boarding you obv side useless ones out.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1118

i like the idea of this deck but i think you went a little overboard with the silver bullets, you can probably cut some/ move some to sb. like witness seems random hellion and mirror entity seem slow and bad

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 619

Your probably right that i may have a lot of silver bullets. But i wouldnt cut witness, i have it in there to basicly have 2 of each silver bullet that if it dies somehow i can get it back, in addition it can funktion like card advantage if you go chord for eternity return chord.
The idea behind entity is that you chord it up and then have like 3 other guys (best would be with cobra) and make them all huge and swing ftw., although i never chorded it up, if i have more testing i know what if i could it or not.
I actually like the hellion though, it seems perfect for zoo and i expect zoo to be a huge part of the metagame.

In addition stuff like kataki, ethersworn, vexing shusher... can change depending on the meta.

Someone also asked what i chord up the most and i didnt do enough testing to realy tell and it obviously changes with the matchup. I can tell you what i never chorded up till now:
Mirror Entity(though i added it when i wanted to chord up a pump effect),Ranger of Eos and Kataki(i didnt played with them yet), Vexing shusher(didnt play against faeries), Loaming Shaman(didnt play against dredge).
I have maybe only a total of 8 matches till now so obviously the deck will change alot.

KeySam

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 1458

Maybe try adding hokori dust drinker as a possible bullet to the main or side, should give some control decks nightmares.