[Tiny] Ezuri, Renegade Leader

[acefreemok]

Built my first TL deck and I am taking into a fairly casual tournament this weekend. Please provide feedback... In particular not entirely sure on Eladamri in the mainboard, nor beastmaster ascension... I don't know what other decks I'd expect to play against in a TL tournament, so the sideboard isn't exactly focused.


Arbor Elf
Birchlore Rangers
Boreal Druid
Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
Elvish Archdruid
Elvish Champion
Elvish Harbinger
Elvish Mystic
Elvish Visionary
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Fyndhorn Elves
Heritage Druid
Imperious Perfect
Joraga Treespeaker
Joraga Warcaller
Llanowar Elves
Nettle Sentinel
Priest of Titania
Quirion Ranger
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Timberwatch Elf
Wirewood Symbiote

Beastmaster Ascension
Concordant Crossroads
Song of the Dryads
Sylvan Library

Glimpse of Nature
Green Sun's Zenith
Lead the Stampede
Chord of Calling
Crop Rotation
Tribal Unity
Worldly Tutor

Bow of Nylea
Umbral Mantle

Cavern of Souls
Forest
Gaea's Cradle



Sideboard
Beast Within
Choke
Fecundity
Gaea's Blessing
Gaea's Herald
Jagged-Scar Archers
Lignify
Mistcutter Hydra
Reclamation Sage
Wellwisher

[Esper3k]

You'll want Nykthos in the main as well. A bad Cradle is still a second one in a singleton format.

Caller of the Claw is a powerful sideboard card since your biggest enemy is early sweepers.

[Aggro_zombies]

A couple things, based on my testing with Ezuri:

1) Esper3k is right on both counts. Nykthos is always better in the main than Cavern unless your meta is absolutely flooded with U/x aggro-control decks. I would run both Caller and Repopulate or a similar effect to help fight Esper control decks.

2) Having more creatures is better than having a bunch of random spells. Ezuri really, really wants a critical mass of Elves so every non-Elf spell has to be amazing to justify its inclusion.

This means there's a lot of cuts to make in your list. First, Tribal Unity is pretty bad. Second, neither of the artifacts are good; you can get the same sort of damage spillover from multiple Ezuri overrun activations as you can from Bow's deathtouch, and Umbra Mantle is just worse than Staff of Domination if you're trying to generate arbitrary amounts of mana (Staff actually does something otherwise). Third, Ascension was very win-more in my testing. Fourth, Song isn't a particularly strong maindeck inclusion since it is a one-for-one and Elves mostly plays out the same in this format as it does in Legacy (combo-ish). Likewise, Library is kind of slow - my Ezuri deck (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ezuri-conventional-leader/) can kill on turn five pretty regularly unless facing heavy amounts of removal. I'm actually only running five non-creature spells in the main, though I could see an argument for GSZ, Summoner's Pact, or Staff in place of Curio (a card I'm testing, not sure if it's good). Alternately, a Hurricane effect that can hit players gives you a way to win without attacking when combined with Wellwisher or Essence Warden to pad your life total.

Ezuri is one of the strongest decks in the format mostly because he's fast, consistent, and capable of tanking a lot of hate. You can go over the top of aggro or midrange decks and grind out control decks with little value dorks, or combo kill them in the space of one or two turns. If they aren't prepared for you - they're doing something silly like taking all the 4+ drops out of a regular EDH deck - they are probably just dead.