UG Intruder Elves

[GreenOne]

The deck started as a standard combo elves with Glimpse of nature and Collective Unconscious as card advantage that allowed to draw your entire deck, Concordant Crossroads and Vitalize to make obscene amount of mana and then Living Wish for the win.

New cards were printed and the deck gained some new stuff.
Here's a list, now including blue:

// Lands
4 [US] Forest (3)
3 [ON] Windswept Heath
3 [ON] Wooded Foothills
4 [U] Tropical Island

// Creatures
4 [VI] Quirion Ranger
4 [ON] Birchlore Rangers
4 [DIS] Coiling Oracle
4 [US] Priest of Titania
4 [IA] Fyndhorn Elves
4 [R] Llanowar Elves
4 [SC] Wirewood Symbiote
3 [LRW] Imperious Perfect

// Spells
4 [CHK] Glimpse of Nature
2 [CH] Concordant Crossroads
3 [JU] Living Wish
3 [SH] Intruder Alarm
3 [MOR] Distant Melody

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [LRW] Imperious Perfect
SB: 1 [9E] Viridian Shaman
SB: 1 [ON] Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
SB: 1 [MM] Cinder Elemental
SB: 1 The new Stomphowler?
SB: 1-4 Elvish Champion?
SB: X Krosan Grips

Wins:
1- Beat down with a bunch of elves and pumped by Pefect. Stall the ground/save attacking dudes with Symbiote.
2- Intruder Alarm + Imperious perfect + a mana making elf (titania,llanowar, findhorn or birchlore) = Make infinite Elf Warrior Tokens, and probably infinite mana, if you like it.
3- Draw your deck and living wish for Kamahl or Cinder Elemental with crossroads in play.

Card choices:
14 lands: Maybe it's too much, I suck at manabases. It may also possible to includesome number of Gaea's Cradles instead of lands or a 1 of in the SB.

Quirion Ranger: good with Priests and against wasteland. Extremely good when drawing your deck. A disputable slot though.
Birchlore Ranger: It helps in making Blue mana, and it's the only source of red mana for cinder elemental.
Coiling Oracle: card advantage and a nice card advantage/blocking machine with Symbiote out.
Priest of titania: allows the "play your entire deck" part.
Findhorn + Llanowar elves: Part of the Alarm combo and speed bump in early turns.
Wirewood Symbiote: untaps titania / Perfect. Provide blocking with another creature. Saves your dudes from spot removal. Makes card advantage with Oracle. Saves you from Jitte shenanigans.
Imperious Perfect: Comboes with Intruder Alarm, pumps your entire deck, makes blockers, saves your dudes from Plague.

Glimpse of Nature: it's rarely less than a sorcery Ancestral Recall, it allows to draw your deck. It also have sinergy with Symbiote.
Concordant crossroads: it allows the win on the turn you're comboing off (whether with the alarm combo or with Cinder Elemental/Kamahl)
Living Wish: fetches utility, finishers and part of the combo (Perfect).
Intruder Alarm: Needed for the combos. It's also good against AggroControl because you have a much greater number of critters and Symbiote.
Distant Melody: it draws your deck. If it doesn't it means you're already losing.

Matchups:
Note this is just speculation made wth random mws opponents.

Against control the deck is good. Wrath effects are bad for you, but you have a lot of cards to make card advantage and the opponent has to disrupt different combos.

Against aggro-control. Black decks are usually good matchups, as are thresh like decks, as long as they don't resolve a counterbalnce (preside). UGr Canadian is a horrible matchup.

Aggro. It depends on how much removal do they pack. It's usually on your side if they got almost no removal (affinity) and on their side if they got plenty of it (RG tarmoburn, goblins with sharpshooter, edicts, gempalms)

Yeah, it's another elf deck. Discuss.

[Mordenkaynen]

Low land count? Seems too low... but land grant is relevant anyway.

Need testing. There appears such ideas often, but usually they don't work. This is another appearence of "elves combo" and seems interesting. But it will be really interesting if it works or at least if we have some results of testing.

[Bourgeoise]

There IS a deck similar to this in a recent tournament report from Vancouver, Washington that placed 5th in a 47 player tournament. It is mono green and runs an even lower land count than this. There is a couple of mentions about it in the various tournament reports from the event. Here's the list:


5th Place
Elves!
Geoff Cannard

4 Street Wraith
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Priest of Titania
4 Heritage Druid
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndorn Elves
3 Birchlore Rangers
4 Quirion Ranger
2 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
5 Forest
2 Savannah
4 Multani's Acolyte
1 Viridian Zealot
2 Timber Watch Elf
2 Sylvan Messenger
2 Staff of Domination
3 Concordant Crossroads

Sideboard:
4 Pithing Needle
4 Krosan Grip
4 Absolute Law
2 Imperious Perfect
1 Elvish Champion

[dahcmai]

Well, you have the blue. Wake Thrasher might like being friends with these guys.

[Willoe]

Hmm, cinder elemental and kamahl seems kinda crappy. Why not Demonfire and Wild Mongrel to ensure hellbent? You will with hellbent have an almost ensured win condition, otherwise you will win with beatdown next turn.

[GreenOne]

Hmm, cinder elemental and kamahl seems kinda crappy. Why not Demonfire and Wild Mongrel to ensure hellbent? You will with hellbent have an almost ensured win condition, otherwise you will win with beatdown next turn.

Wild mongrel is not an elf. Demonfire is not that a great card maindeck. I wanted some living wishable win conditions, so the deck doesn't dilute with cards not great on their own.


Well, you have the blue. Wake Thrasher might like being friends with these guys.

It can be another interesting option. A pity it's not an elf, it's chumpable all the time and weak on the opponent turn. Probably not worth it after all.