zander1
01-19-2008, 12:08 PM
I always liked playing elves. I started with Glimpse elves, but if you don't draw Glimpse or topdeck it lategame, it's almost useless. The opponent also can attack the creatures or the combo, which isn't very good too. then I played Nihil's Discard elves with eladamri and the Wirewood Herald/ Cabal Therapy combo, which worked very well. But after the new wording of eladamri I didn't see a reason why he should be better than wirewood symbiote. So I came back to my previous elves, but I didn't want to loose the "control" of the discard elves or the fast synergies of my Glimpse elves. Then I became the idea of adding Goblin Bobardment. It's a quite good combo win condition and helps the aggro MU with giving all my creatures mogg fanatic's abbility too. It's also an good sacc- engine for my heralds, with which I can search the mana elves I need, strong beaters like Wren's Run Packmaster or Imperious Perfect, Sylvan messenger to get more elves or caller of the claws to sacc all my elves and then the bear tokens ftw!!!
So here's my list:
Lands(12):
4x Gaea's Cradle
4x wooded Foothills
2x Taiga
2x Forest
I play elves, so Gaea's Cradle comes in. It's even more effective with the tokens this deck can produce. The Forest count is a bit low, but it's necessary to keep the amount of elves high and usually 8 "Forests" reach for Quirion Ranger.
Mana elves(20):
4x Elvish Spirit Guide
4x Priest of Titania
4x Heritage Druid (morningtide)
4x Birchlore Rangers
4x Quirion Rangers
The Spirits are additional mana producers. Because of their elf type they are tutorable by the Heralds and I get them with the Messenger. Priest of Titania is an auto- include dor this deck. I decided playing the Heritage Druids and the Birchlore Rangers over the 8 Llanowar elves, because with them the whole deck is much more faster. Making all elves to "haste Llanowars" is just too good not to run. The Birchlore Rangers are an additional source for the red mana for goblin Bombardment. Quirion Ranger untaps Priest or Perfect and you can play and tap the forest an additional time.
Combo(16):
4x Goblin Bombardment
4x Wirewood Herald
4x Wirewood Hivemaster
4x Sylvan Messenger
The combo. In the best case you play everything you can and then you sacc herald for a caller of the claws and your other creatures. Then play caller and win.
With the Hivemaster you get a lot of tokens to sacc and Cradle gives you more mana.
Beaters(6):
4x Imperious Perfect
2x Wren's Run Packmaster
If you play against an aggro deck you usually search one of these guys. They make your elves big or produce a bunch of tokens.
Protection/ Combo/ Mana(6):
4x Wirewood Symbiote
2x Caller of the Claws
Wirewood bounces your creatures, brings Messenger back to your hand and untaps priest. If your opponent plays control, always keep three mana open to be able to cast Caller of the Claws.
SB:
4x Thorn of Amethyst
4x Essence Warden
4x Viridian Zealot
3x Krosan Grip
The Thorns come in against any sorts of combo decks, essence warden makes burn players cry, viridian zealot and krosan grip are against jitte & co.
It wins at an average turn 3-4 and is also very as an aggro deck.
man, i wish there would exist a goblin sledder for elves.
What do you guys think about this deck???
So here's my list:
Lands(12):
4x Gaea's Cradle
4x wooded Foothills
2x Taiga
2x Forest
I play elves, so Gaea's Cradle comes in. It's even more effective with the tokens this deck can produce. The Forest count is a bit low, but it's necessary to keep the amount of elves high and usually 8 "Forests" reach for Quirion Ranger.
Mana elves(20):
4x Elvish Spirit Guide
4x Priest of Titania
4x Heritage Druid (morningtide)
4x Birchlore Rangers
4x Quirion Rangers
The Spirits are additional mana producers. Because of their elf type they are tutorable by the Heralds and I get them with the Messenger. Priest of Titania is an auto- include dor this deck. I decided playing the Heritage Druids and the Birchlore Rangers over the 8 Llanowar elves, because with them the whole deck is much more faster. Making all elves to "haste Llanowars" is just too good not to run. The Birchlore Rangers are an additional source for the red mana for goblin Bombardment. Quirion Ranger untaps Priest or Perfect and you can play and tap the forest an additional time.
Combo(16):
4x Goblin Bombardment
4x Wirewood Herald
4x Wirewood Hivemaster
4x Sylvan Messenger
The combo. In the best case you play everything you can and then you sacc herald for a caller of the claws and your other creatures. Then play caller and win.
With the Hivemaster you get a lot of tokens to sacc and Cradle gives you more mana.
Beaters(6):
4x Imperious Perfect
2x Wren's Run Packmaster
If you play against an aggro deck you usually search one of these guys. They make your elves big or produce a bunch of tokens.
Protection/ Combo/ Mana(6):
4x Wirewood Symbiote
2x Caller of the Claws
Wirewood bounces your creatures, brings Messenger back to your hand and untaps priest. If your opponent plays control, always keep three mana open to be able to cast Caller of the Claws.
SB:
4x Thorn of Amethyst
4x Essence Warden
4x Viridian Zealot
3x Krosan Grip
The Thorns come in against any sorts of combo decks, essence warden makes burn players cry, viridian zealot and krosan grip are against jitte & co.
It wins at an average turn 3-4 and is also very as an aggro deck.
man, i wish there would exist a goblin sledder for elves.
What do you guys think about this deck???