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The Aluren history/summary on this and the last page is excellent. I played around with Recruiter-less Aluren a year ago, but there was very little interest in the deck at all back then, and...

Is this deck terrible?

4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Coiling Oracle
4 Shardless Agent

4 Cavern Harpy
1 Veteran Explorer
1 Xantid Swarm
1 Reclamation Sage

I had this exact question about the decks! I normally play Shardless BUG, so I have the dual lands for either, and wondered this exact question. For me, it came down to needing either Shardless...

Question for everyone: If someone forced you to play Aluren tomorrow, in a major event, with no Imperial Recruiters, what would you play?


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I keep coming up with 75 card Aluren maindecks. ...

It's somewhere between "just" a Shardless Shell with 7 clunky cards and the Recruiter-less combo Aluren decks. The "combo" in the version I posted is:
Aluren + Cavern Harpy + Baleful Strix = Pay...

I played this list last night (just a few games to start playtesting), and it was pretty interesting. It's clearly a work in progress but I had fun trying it.

4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tarmogoyf
4...

How good is that deck when your Aluren is countered? It seems like your creatures are all pretty underwhelming if you can't stick the combo. If I understand it correctly, your plan goes like this:...

I played against Aluren again last weekend at SCG:O Houston and was reminded how neat the deck is. I usually play BUG Delver, so I have all of the expensive cards except the Recruiters.

How...