Current List:
Creatures (19):
4x Elvish Spirit Guide
3x Scurry Oak
3x Ivy Lane Denizen
2x Endurance
2x Undermountain Adventurer
1x Hexdrinker
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Questing Beast
1x Outland Liberator
1x Allosaurus Shepherd
Artifacts (11):
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Chrome Mox
3x Trinisphere
Planeswalkers (2):
2x Garruk Wildspeaker
Spells (8):
4x Green Sun's Zenith
4x Living Wish
Lands (20):
4x Ancient Tomb
4x City of Traitors
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
10x Forest
Sideboard (15):
1x Scurry Oak
1x Ivy Lane Denizen
1x Sylvan Safekeeper
1x Wasteland
1x Obstinate Baloth
1x Karakas
1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1x Boseiju, Who Endures
1x Endurance
1x Outland Liberator
1x Eternal Witness
1x Undermountain Adventurer
1x Arasta of the Endless Web
1x Walking Ballista
1x Collector Ouphe
OP:
Hi everyone, it's been a while since I've posted here. For a little background, I'm a longtime Dragon Stompy player that was looking for something different to play at my local Legacy FNM and yesterday my mind wandered to the Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen combo. Seeing as both cards only have a single colored mana in their casting costs, I thought about how the combo could fit into a Mono-Green Chalice Aggro (Stompy) shell.
I only had 2 copies of both Oak and Denizen, so I put together a deck that only ran 1 of each in the main and then 1 of each in the sideboard with some Living Wishes and Green Sun's Zeniths to search for them. The rest of the deck was just a hodgepodge of solid silver bullet cards and some random threats that I wanted to try out. I ran the deck at FNM with low expectations and it surprisingly went 3-0 against Lands, Burn, and High Tide. The results made me think the deck might be worth taking a look at, so I thought I'd share it here.
Creatures:
4x Elvish Spirit Guide
3x Tireless Tracker
1x Scurry Oak
1x Ivy Lane Denizen
1x Hexdrinker
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Eternal Witness
1x Courser of Kruphix
1x Questing Beast
1x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Noncreature:
4x Chrome Mox
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Living Wish
4x Green Sun's Zenith
3x Trinisphere
1x Once Upon a Time
1x Garruk Wildspeaker
1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
Lands:
10x Forest
4x City of Traitors
4x Ancient Tomb
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Turntimber Symbiosis
Sideboard:
4x Leyline of the Void
1x Scurry Oak
1x Ivy Lane Denizen
1x Collector Ouphe
1x Stingerfling Spider
1x Force of Vigor
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Phyrexian Revoker
1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
1x Karakas
1x Thragtusk
1x Nightpack Ambusher
As I played it, I really started getting the feeling that there need to be more Oaks and Denizens in the main. I'm planning on bumping both up to 3 copies while removing maybe the Tireless Trackers and Nissa or Thrun. I'm also going to try to squeeze a couple copies of Endurance in somewhere between the main and side. I would have ran some in the original list, but couldn't get any copies on short notice. With the addition of Endurance I'll also probably drop the Leylines in the side for something else (maybe Chokes?). A card that has definitely performed above expectations was Garruk and I think that he might deserve a second copy in the main. The fact that he can +1 to untap sol lands is pretty nutty and allows for some really strong lines of play when he comes down. Garruk also seems to play into my thoughts that the deck seems to have a stronger manabase than Dragon Stompy tends to. Firing off Green Sun's Zenith for Dryad Arbor seems to smooth things out more than I originally thought.
I'll probably won't get to try out an updated list for couple of weeks, but until then let me know what you think! Comments/suggestions are always welcome. Thanks for reading!
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