Black-splashed survival builds without survival look more or less like rock builds and I guess at least some people who got attached to their cards will play that deck. However I don't fully agree with your suggestions. Trying to go for Iona soft-lock with shaman sounds suicidal to me, even if you manage to protect the smaman via mother. I don't believe you can rely on shaman to build any sort of combo. What we could try to do is play like old RG(b)SA used to - include Squee in your build and use shaman to land a Goyf / Kotr each turn with possibility to get qasali pridemage / mother or maybe one of the very few singleton bullets when thats advantegous. This won't be a tier 1 strategy, but at the very least seems more viable than trying to set up Iona lock...
Just a few thoughts:
My same thoughts and history.
I guess you may still see some VVs with intuitions.Originally Posted by Piceli89
You are not alone in that way of thinking. I really wish that there would be even a greater invasion of VV and it would get banned. I know that it wouldn't get back SotF. I also think that scenario impossible, but hey! I thought the same about banning SotF, and they have shown how stupidity will always surpass imaginationOriginally Posted by hungryboi
Survival him!
I guess this thread is truely dead. However can Green Sun's Zenith breath new life into survival? I mean there should be a new thread called GSZ-Fauna Shaman.deck but these two cards seem to come together to form a deck very similar to survival. This can increase the engine cards up to 8, and will involve a toolbox. GSZ is basically fauna 5-8 as well as being able to go directly for the tutor target or as an llawonar elf. I don't know if this makes this deck good enough without the namesake card but I'm interested in testing this:
The engine:
4 Dark Confidant
4 GSZ
4 Fauna Shaman
The Bullets:
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Boneshredder
1 Shriekmaw
1 Eternal Witness
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Gaddock Teeq
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Iona
The Bread and Butter:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Tarmogoyf
23 Lands
Would this be enough? Or is survival still crap? The upside now is 8 Turn 1 accel, which is very significant, and basically 8 fauna shamans. I'll just play with it and see if its anywhere near competitive. Gonna be a hell of a lot of fun though.
thats actually pretty interesting. Too bad it's alot weaker against CB which is seeing more and more play
GSZ doesn't seem weak v.s. CB: GSZ for 3 mana, put Qasali Pridemage into play.
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The problem is speed. GSZ and Fauna Shaman are DAMN slow compared to survival.
I would start a list with:
4x Noble hierarch
4x GSZ
1x Dryad Arbor
4x Goofy
4x Knight of the Reliquary
2x Q. Pridemage
Sound like some kind of Big Zoo to me ^^ .... Anyway, I prefer testing GSZ with 4 Goofies in Countertop.
btw. Gaddock Teeg doesn't like Zenith
Agreed Teeq hates Zenith, but A turn 2 Zenith into teeq against combo off a zenith/birds/noble turn 1 is pretty good. Probably teeq is sideboard material. I'm stuck between the control lists with bob + big toolbox or aggro + Kotrs/wastelands and good cards. I'll test both and post my results. Anyone else working on a fauna-zenith deck?
After 6 months of quitraging and a move to another country (thanks for the welcome Dutch people!), I will keep an eye on this thread.
However, it is going to be sooo difficult not to compare it to the original survival...
What about trying to abuse the (hateful) VV?
Survival him!
Best necro I have ever seen. Next up, the old Hulk Flash threads!
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