Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is based the legion land loss deck from 1998. It uses 17 main Ld combined with 12 elfs to start the land extermination on turn 2. Four trinisphere maindeck with Ld stops most decks outright. Scrying sheets,orphan viper, and harmonize make sure that your always ahead of your opponent.

Mana-23
9x snow forest
2x scrying sheets
4x lanowar elves
4x Fyndhorn Elves
4x Boreal Druid
LD-17
4x ice storm
4x thermokarst
4x winters grasp
2x Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
3x bind (stops fetches)
Jank-15
3x harmonize
4x trinisphere
4x krosan grip
4x ohran viper
Wincon-5
2x argaonthian worm
2x terravore
1x garruk wildspeaker

Sideboard -15
4x root maze
4x chalice of the void
7x (???)

I'm new to legacy and these forums so any advice or card recommendation would be appreciated. I still don't even know what half my sideboard is yet. I'm hoping for this deck to cost around a 100 dollars or less if possible.

well... if your looking to spend less than 100 dollars, then the deck you listed above probably isn't the best option. I just did a price scan on one of the most popular Retailers on the net (granted you probably wouldn't want to use them if you were actually serious about buying cards regularly as they can be quite pricey) but even going with a more conservative site will probably get you somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 dollars for the cards on this list. And I am not even including the sideboard cards which are a bit more pricey and don't even include the 7 cards you haven't decided on yet.

As for the list itself, it is a pretty standard looking green land destruction package. Unfortunately in Legacy, land destruction is not necessarily a sure fire way of defeating an opponent. Additionally if you are going to be using Trinisphere to beat opponents you will want means of getting it into play turn 1. In otherwords you will want Lotus Petal or Chrome Mox or if you want to stay cheap then I would suggest Elvish Spirit Guide or Simian Spirit Guide. Other than those the Elves in your deck list are way to slow to assure you of the crucial turn 1 trinisphere that will assure you a solid game plan.

Well I'm going to be using ebay and http://magic.tcgplayer.com to find prices so I should be fine as long as I don't buy more than a few other cards over $10.

As for speed won't turn two be fast enough for trisphere/and or LD?
Ideally the turns would go something like this

Turn 1 :elf and pass the turn
Turn 2: play icestorm/winters grasp/thermokarst/bind
Turns 3-6: repeat turn 2
Turn 7-8: play trinisphere
MD krosan grip stop moxs and petals

The hardest thing deck this deck has to deal with is a turn 2 tarmogoft or turn 1 birds of paradise/noble Noble Hierarch. Orphan bloclks gofts, warmonks, but he can't do anything to hierach. I was thinking maybe maybe lignify.

Hornet Sting deal with BoP/Hierarch/Lackey/Confidant.

Hornet sting is good but it kills all of your elves too so it slows you down. maybe some sort of artifact removal.
Also should I run chalice of the void maindeck ?

It's targeted, not global.

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Originally Posted by leander?

It's targeted, not global.

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My bad

Fun list, used to run something quite like it allot of years ago :D
Creeping Mold, Acidic Slime or Mold Shambler seems better than Mwonvuli Acid-Moss so you can stop crucibles and counterbalances or any other threat

the only thing you have to worry about are any creature's that hit the table fast enough

Unless I'm miscounting, this deck plays ELEVEN lands... IMHO you will miss your second land drop far too often - and as you admit yourself, this drop is critical for starting to LD on turn 2.
As a rule of thumb, I'd cut 1 land for each two mana producing nonland cards - with 12 elves, that's about 22 - 6 = 16 lands.