Can I get some help with a revision on the zoo

thunder34 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 2

I plan on taking zoo to regionals but haven't seen it winning lately can I get some help here or has it just fallen out of tier 1 all together. Any help would be appreciated.

4 Sacred Foundry
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Stomping Ground
4 Temple Garden
2 Forest
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Plains
1 Karplusan Forest
1 Brushland
4 Savannah Lions
4 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Kird Ape
4 Watchwolf
3 Burning-Tree Shaman
2 Kami of Ancient Law
3 Bathe in Light
4 Char
4 Lightning Helix
3 Flames of the Blood Hand
3 Shock
//Sideboard:
4 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Tin Street Hooligan
1 Flames of the Blood Hand
2 Giant Solifuge
3 Hunted Wumpus
1 Kami of Ancient Law
2 Pure/simple

gregor · Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 28

straight rw with paladin en-vic is better than zoo in my opinion now that you have condemn. shock should be seal

synch987 · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

gruul is more consistant, but zoo is more aggressive, i dont think it needs revising, maindeck at least, what match ups do you think are bad, change your board for them.

h0m3r · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 114

seal of fire is preferable in zoo because red mana is at a premium

Russell_Nash · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 645 Location: Burn Ward

I disagree. I believe zoo is much more consistent(at least my build). It runs basically 3 cards: Land, 1 and 2 drop Creatures, Burn spells. I rarely see a hand I don’t love. Here’s my deck list I played last night in a 38 man tournie and got 2nd place with.

//NAME: Zoo Go-Go
// Lands
3 Battlefield Forge
3 Brushland
4 Karplusan Forest
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Stomping Ground
4 Temple Garden
// Creatures
4 Dryad Sophisticate
4 Kird Ape
4 Savannah Lions
4 Watchwolf
4 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
// Spells
4 Char
3 Flames of the Blood Hand
4 Lightning Helix
3 Shock
4 Volcanic Hammer
// Sideboard
SB: 4 Kami of Ancient Law
SB: 3 Naturalize
SB: 2 Rumbling Slum
SB: 2 Tin Street Hooligan
SB: 4 Umezawa's Jitte

Basically drop a 2 power first turn follow up with a 2cc drop next turn, just attack burning creatures out of the way and finishing with direct damage to the face.

The reason Gruul does so well against zoo is because of Gruul’s mana base and the slower stronger creatures. With Gruul you only play G and R, so you take hardly any damage from painlands and shock lands. Also because your mana base is so straight forward you can run Blood Moon in SB(which completely hoses zoo). Also Gruul tends to play slower tougher creatures which forces zoo to do 2 for 1 trades.

IMO zoo is better against most decks but Gruul is really geared against zoo.

Insanity · Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 164

Gruul, Zoo and BW aggro will be destroyed by the metagame in this pro-tour. An aggro heavy format attracts the hell out of wrath of god and similar cards.

Stucco · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 558

I agree that shock should be Seal of Fire.

I like creatures such as Dryad Sophisticate as it is better on damage than Kami, but w/e.

I love the Bathe in Light you have mb.

h0m3r · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 114

i've never lost against Gruul with zoo... (although its always close)

you have more burn spells than they do, always helps