UG Small Men

darkelf02 · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

I came up with this deck after testing with the modern day
sea-stompy for a while. I never seemed to get the mana I
needed even though when I did it always payed off big time.
I dug up a list I put together at the release of TS when
unstable mutation came back to standard. I had tried to make
it work with cheap unblockable blue wheenie creatures like flying men or drifter il-dal and finish off the opponent with burn. At the time the deck didnâ€™t work so I forgot about it. But now Iâ€™ve come back to it but with a different mentality. Iâ€™ve replaced the red in the deck for green.

Name: UB Small Men

Creatures:

2 Giant Solifuge
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
3 Looter il-Kor
4 Flying Men
2 Drifter il-Dal
3 Uktabi Drake

Spells:

2 Stonewood Invocation
4 Unstable Mutation
4 Remand
3 Mana Leak
2 Call of the Heard
3 Psionic Blast

Lands:

4 Breeding Pool
4 Yavimaya Coast
6 Island
4 Forest
2 Desert
1 Pendelhaven

Sideboard:

3 Trickbind
3 Tormodâ€™s Crypt
3 Krosan Grip
3 Leyline of Lifeforce
3 Annex
I think in the actual format this deck can beat a player before he can blink. 4 damage on turn 2 is a very common play and Iâ€™ve even been able to make that 7 once or twice. The point is to drop early creatures and swing as much as you can before the opponent can get anything going. I can have good matchups against almost every deck, it all depends on my starting hand. The only thing Iâ€™ve been having major problems against is land destruction decks like wildfire tron. Control can go both ways as it depends if I can drop enough early creatures to kill him before he wraths or before he locks me down with counterspells. After sideboard I get to put in Leyline of Lifeforce wich seems innocent enough but helps a lot when all you want to do is make a creature stick long enough to put in the extra damage. Against Gragonstorm and other storm decks the first game really depends how fast they can combo off and how fast I can dish out the damage. I get a good chance of destroying their combo when I side in trickbind. Even if the originall copy actually resolves, I can usually get by a huge dragon or a few goblins for lethal damage. I didnâ€™t get to test it much against aggro but the counterspells usually help me stay one step ahead of him and thatâ€™s usually enough for a win.

If you want to comment my deck or give me ideas on how to tune it or how to modify the sideboard feel free to, I would greatly appreciate if you would.

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

MONO BLEEN

DRINKALCOHOL · Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 265 Location: New Gunsqu

this couldnt beat any aggro deck in t2 unless you're playing a retard

Erebus- · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 96

This list is just better.

2 Looter il-Kor
2 Plaxmanta
2 Giant Solifuge
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Ohran Viper

4 Call of the Herd
4 Voidslime
4 Delay
4 Remand
4 Psionic Blast
2 Stonewood Invocation
2 Loxodon Warhammer

4 Breeding Pool
4 Yavimaya Coast
1 Pendelhaven
5 Forest
6 Island

1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Trygon Predator
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Plaxmanta
2 Loaming Shaman
1 Quagnoth
2 Trickbind
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Tarmogoyf
1 Krosan Grip

Lackeos · Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 236

I do not approve. I just feel that too many of the cards in the deck are bad. I mean, any good deck should match the following addition statement: good individual cards + good bigger picture.

DeadJester · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

The deck I think is supposed to drop some creature on turn one. Then Mutate it unstably and get in as much dmg as you can. I think, that when you dont draw an unstable mutation. you are not going to race any deck.

Think it needs a faster clock by creatures alone and have the mutation to make the deck better, not make the deck.