VineTraders

[ChristoferV]

What is VineTraders?

The deck is based around the amalgam of Bazaar of Bagdad and Serendib Efreet. That amalgam being Bazaar Trademage. So how do we build around the Bazaar of Bagdad effect? Easy. We jam Vengevine, Hollow one and Basking Rootwalla into a tempo-esque shell.

Only having an explosive creature synergy in the deck didn’t feel enough for the deck so adding red to a blue green shell seemed interesting. So what good cards do we get if we splash red? Legacy’s newest superstar, Wrenn and Six. With Wrenn and Six lands like Wasteland, Cephalid Coliseum and Barbarian Ring became more appealing for the deck, alongside with crop rotation. Besides adding another axis of attack to the deck Wrenn and Six does an excellent job with getting more cards into your hand, which is a good thing since Bazaar Trademage is expensive cardwise.

So how does the 75 look like? The person who I brewed this deck with (called Pankhurst here at mtgthesource) and I decided on the following 75:

Main deck:
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Bazaar Trademage
4 Vengevine
4 Hollow One
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Crop Rotation
4 Daze
3 Wrenn and Six
4 Force of Will
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:
2 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Winter Orb
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Cindervines
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Magmatic Sinkhole

We are currently testing this list but so far it has been a lot of fun and it presents interesting boardstates and lines of play.
Other cards that the deck is currently considering for sideboard/main:
Narset, Parter of Veils
Dack Fayden
Hooting Mandrills
True-Name Nemesis/Vendilion Clique

We just wanted to share what we’re working on and we hope that more people feel the urge to jam some Vengevines and Hollow Ones after reading this. Also feel free to give feedback if you think that something could improve the deck. We want as many as possible to become a VineTrader!