Assault from the Loam

thumbs · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

//Lands//
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Ghost Quarter
3 Barbarian Ring
4 Wooded Foothills
5 Mountain
8 Forest

//Creatures//
1 Rathi Dragon
2 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
2 Sylvan Safekeeper
3 Vinelasher Kudzu
3 Carven Caryatid

//Spells//
4 Seismic Assault
4 Life from the Loam
3 Shock
3 Naturalize
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Browbeat
2 Sylvan Scrying
2 Blazing Salvo
2 Sprouting Vines
1 Journey of Discovery
1 Rites of Spring

//Sideboard//
15 ?????

There are many ways to use this deck and all are effective. I know this needs some refinement, so I'm open to all Extended legal suggestions.
The main thing I need help with is a sideboard. I have a couple ideas for some of it, but please give your opinions.

1) Use Seismic Assault to discard lands and Sprouting Vines, Rites of Spring and Journey of Discovery to get lands. Life from the Loam will replenish your hand over and over, but at the cost of drawing the card at the beginning of your upkeep. Deals 2 - 6 damage each of your turns. 4 - 12 if you use Mikokoro or Carven Caryatid to keep drawing and returning LftL.

2) With Crucible of the Worlds, Barbarian Ring and Threshold you can keep returning the Ring and sacing it for 2 damage. Deals 2 damage each turn. Up to 6 if you have Azusa. Ghost Quarter can sub for Barbarian Ring to thin out your opponents lands. It works very, very well against some of the decks that run only pain lands and dual lands.

3) Rathi Dragon and Crucible to pretty much counteract the drawback of a 5/5 flier for 2RR

4) Vinelasher Kudzu and Wooded Foothills. The Kudzu gets a counter when you play the Foothills, then another one after you sac it and bring out a forest or mountain. Get 2 counters just as easily as 1. With Crucible out, it is a renewable counter producer. Basically, "Pay 1 life: Put 2 +1/+1 counters on Kudzu and a mountain or forest card from your library into play". Not bad in my book. With Azusa, triple that effect.

kfcman · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 665

u know
if u took out r for u
ud have card, counters and walk the aeons
and then
aeons + crucible + azusa = pretty damn funny

madoggie · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Lets start with some of the basics. There are some things i really like about your deck and is very tech..example crucilbe. But do you really need it if ur playing loam? Second, look at aggro loam decklist online. They all use loam to its best with cycling lands and the whole nine yards. I cant see this deck being successful in the format. Look at the decklist online and i know u will like it a WHOLE LOT MORE! My suggestion? PLAY AGGRO LOAM! Also Terrivore+ Thoughts of Ruin= GAME

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 950

That deck seems to be just strictly worse than both Aggro Loam and CAL.

Blazing Salvo? Sylvan Scrying? Rites of Spring? Journey of Discovery? Sprouting Vines? Browbeat? etc

thumbs · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 950

You should. Take all those cards I listed out and put in good ones.

thumbs · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 6

I'm not sure if I made this deck before Aggro Loam came out, but I know I had never seen it when I made this. Saying that Aggro Loam is better doesnt help me one bit. So please say something to the effect of "____ cards aren't as good as _____ cards...you should replace them". Say something useful, not the pointless gibberish you've been spitting out.

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 950

"Blazing Salvo? Sylvan Scrying? Rites of Spring? Journey of Discovery? Sprouting Vines? Browbeat? etc "

If you can't understand what that means, that is on you. Don't call this pointless gibberish. Those cards are all awful. Rathi Dragon is awful. Caryatid maindeck is awful. Safekeeper is awful. Shock seems out of place and is probably worse than several other burn spells anyway. Naturalize main is a poor choice. Crucible does not seem necessary.

What to replace them with is dependent on what direction you want the deck to go in. Do you want to turn it into an aggro-loam variant? A CAL variant? Somewhere between? Something entirely independent of those 2 decks?

goodrat · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

Walk the Aeons + Spellweaver Helix + Life from the Loam = COMBOZ

Sorry.

BigShow · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 1312 Location: Igloo town

Terravore?