[Article] The Cutting Room Floor: Happy Trees

[Michael Keller]

Latest article (http://jupitergames.info/articles/2013/52637/the-cutting-room-floor-happy-trees) exploiting Painter's Servant in an unusual way.

[Backseat_Critic]

We live in an abrupt decay world now. As a brewer, it used to be krosan grip that always made the wheels come off of cool, synergistic decks I designed. Then that waned in popularity, but along came abrupt decay. Even with counterspells, it's tough to protect any permanents.

Still, I really like what you're doing. I don't know for sure, but I think your series really speaks to the old legacy diehards. After all these years it's still awesome for brewers. Keep up the good work.

[Plague Sliver]

I can see where you're going with this. Essentially, it's NO, Grindstone and beatdown in one deck. in practice though it's difficult for me to visualize it working. When you don't draw one of the components, due to lack of library manipulation / inconsistency, you're a worse Rock deck. And naturally drawing Progenitus without Brainstorm to shuffle it back is pretty miserable.

Also, as the poster above said, Abrupt Decay puts a wrench in Painter's plans.

You're trading consistency for flexibility, and I'm not sure it works.

Unfortunately you didn't include testing results with the deck, so it's hard to say. This is just my 2 cents from looking at the decklist.

[HammafistRoob]

I got a little constructive criticism for you bro. Decent article, nowhere near your best so far though. I don't see dystopia working out very well in the 75 at all. I mean against green or white decks it could be okay but when paired with painter it would cripple your own board as well as costing you life. Even if you don't have scarecrow in play all of your threats are green too. Am I missing something here? I also think the deathmark and deathgrip are way to situational to be maindeck material. But like you said it's only meant to be a starting point.

[TraxDaMax]

Just wondering if you considered playing Emrakul in that deck.
Becomes green too, a.k.a. fetchable with NO. Only sucks when you naturally draw it ofcourse.

[Michael Keller]

Just something fun and off the wall this week. More casual I suppose than anything else.

[Phoenix Ignition]

Just wondering if you considered playing Emrakul in that deck.
Becomes green too, a.k.a. fetchable with NO. Only sucks when you naturally draw it ofcourse.

Yeah, I'm wondering about this as well... because in the article this section doesn't make sense to say (all the creatures in your deck are green to begin with)


In the event that he does manage to stay on the board, you turn cards like Natural Order into a tutor for any creature in your entire deck, no matter what color they are (because they’re green in addition to their other colors).

If you're going to hint at that route you might as well throw Emrakul in.