Grats Rock. I noticed that you had a Phyrexian Revoker out. Very curious to see what list you picked for the SCG.
There's two major flavors of mono-green: MUD and GSZ. I can't speak to the GSZ builds, but I've been playing a more MUD-like deck for a while now.Originally Posted by Vacrix
1. Mono-Green runs full playsets of Crop Rotation and Ancient Stirrings. With a higher percentage of the deck being colorless, Ancient Stirrings becomes an extremely powerful digging tool.
2. Mono-Green runs cards like Exploration and Explore, allowing you to play multiple Posts in a turn. In addition to being acceleration, this lets you follow a Cloudpost with Vesuva without passing priority to an opponent with an untapped Wasteland. These cards also let you drop utility lands like Maze of Ith without hampering your mana development. It also gives you interesting options with Crucible of Worlds (especially Glacial Chasm, Wasteland).
3. Running basic forests instead of Tropical Islands leaves you less vulnerable to Wasteland, Blood Moon, Price of Progress, and Back to Basics.
4. Oddly enough, one big disadvantage of mono-green is cost. While a colored manabase of basic forests is significantly cheaper, mono-green really needs 3-4 Candelabras to be consistent.
This deck should be moved to established. Many many T4 and T8 finishes as well as a finals showing at SCG today.
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GO GO GO ROCK LEE!!!!!!!!!! Put the deck in the map! :)
The game-winning play in Game1 of the semi's was insane - who else but Rock Lee would have had the intimate knowledge of his deck to be able to buy that much time, and then go for that killer play? Hat's off, sir.
There is nothing stopping anyone from creating a new thread in the Established forum.
Why the 3x revokers in the sideboard is my main question. It stops LED, but it seems like most things you need to stop are answered by a needle anyways.
What was the situation and play?
I'll do a full writeup soon, but to answer some questions.
I will put my carrot all over and around your battlefield.
Revoker was pivotal against Planeswalker stacks in the last round of the swiss, but I didn't see it where I would have needed it most, against Elves, MUD and storm.
Thanks! That turn was incredible. I'm so glad there was someone recording exactly what was happening and I might steal some of his coverage in my report.
Hitting manasources, namely Metalworker, Heritage druid, LED, Lotus pedal, and griselbrand are its main role. only Griselbrand gets hit by needle.
to be linked. It basically involved me casting Kozilek multiple times, ulamog'ing my own kozilek to shuffle my graveyard back in to enable me to go infinite with emrakul all while maintaining a glacial chasm.
Congrats on the big finish Rock! Gonna have to check out the SCG videos
edit: Damn.. had you had a cavern of souls last turn in the finals..
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nut draws by rug delver... congratz anyway!
Oh, the irony:
The man goes from nearly losing his multi-thousand dollar deck in a college gym, and in a reversal of fortunes, finds it and reels off a legendary Open performance. Incredible.
Kudos to you, Jer; the Magic gods were clearly smiling on you that day.
And this deck belongs in Established - and should have been there a long time ago.
Hats off to you Rock Lee!
Looking forward seeing this in the established subforums. You've returned my faith back in Legacy.
I am convinced that WotC is "dumbing" the game because of all the stupid posts they come across on MTG-related forums
Hi! I have been following this thread for a while but this is the first time posting. I have been playtesting the deck for about a month now and so far the deck has worked really well.
What do you guys think about Cyclonic Rift in this deck? It hits annoying permanents like chalice of the void and is able to bounce your opponents board at instant speed, i have been running 2 All is Dust in my list that i'm thinking about replacing, thoughts?
And congratulations Rock Lee, it was really exciting to watch you play in the top 8.
Bombs and Carrots is a freaking cool name.
And the recorded plays were awesome. Congratulations.
Almost spit my coke for laughing when you got up to stretch on the finals. =]
Super Bizarros Team. Beating everything with small green dudes and big waves.
Currently I run zero sweeping removal in the deck and don't feel that it hurts me at all. As far as sweeping removal goes, Devastation Tide and All is Dust cover that role better than cyclonic rift. The overload cost is absurdly costed. If I were considering it more, I would want better eot applications and mana usages in the deck, so I would have reasons to sit on my heels and do nothing on my turn and then opt to bounce permanents. Perhaps a build with alchemist's refuge or Thirst for Knowledge, but both of those I don't see being as stable at the moment. More Testing could be required though and I'm not writing it off as a concept, just still reeling from glee about splitting that Open.
Congratulations on the open, Rock. That was awesome! Way to represent.
Congrats on the win - it's well-deserved. Hope to see this thread in Established soon - it's taken too long as it is, IMO.
What's the optimal number of candles for this deck?
Congrats Lee!
Just watched the video coverage and it's so nice to see this deck in action.
I also have to say, now that I've finaly got my hands on some Sensei Tops and Primeval Titans this deck makes a lot more fun to play. Now it's time to save up for the big bombs! :)
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