MTG Salvation

You can try Wirewood Symbiote over Elvish Pioneer.

There are 2 cards that not cost so much and can power up your deck, Wirewood Symbiote and Green Sun's Zenith.

Wirewood Symbiote + Elvish Visionary = Good CA engine. Also you can return an elf to play it again under beck effect or up storm.

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Do you have a splashed deck or are you mono green? The issue with giving Elves Shroud is that Symbiote and Quirion become a lot less useful at that point. Personally white offers two wonderful cards. I do not have the names of them right now but one gives your creatures Protection from Red and the other Protection from non combat damage.

The option I go for personally is to play discard and just race. That is my game plan and it works well for me.

You can return your elves with Wirewood Symbiote but you can't untap them.

-1 Kodama of the North Tree
-1 Kalonian Behemoth
-1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
-1 Elvish Archdruid
-3 Beastmaster Ascension

+2 Craterhoof Behemoth
+1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
+4 Green Sun's Zenith

You can replace Birchlore Rangers for Wren's Run Vanquisher.

To play combo elves you need to know how your cards interact each other and the battle tricks.

Wirewood Symbiote + Whatever elf = pseudo Maze of Ith, you can block an opponent creature with your elf and return it to your hand. Also, you can protect your elf from removal.

Wirewood Symbiote + Elvish Visionary = returning Elvish Visionary to your hand and replaying it you can generate card advantage. Also, you can return Visionary in your opponent's turn so you can draw 2 cards in your turn.

Quirion Ranger + Dryad Arbor = pseudo Maze of Ith if you block with Dryad and return it with Ranger.

Why no Craterhoof Behemoth and Elvish Visionary? If you play Concordant Crossroads the Behemoth is a must, same if you play Wirewood Symbiote you need the Visionary.
If your opponent doesn't disrupt your play you may be able to cast Emrakul on turn 2 or 3 if you can combo.

Too much win cons!! With Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Joraga Warcaller and Craterhoof Behemoth is enough, so cut Overrun. I see no Wirewood Symbiote and Elvish Visionary these card are the best draw engine. Here is my list:



You can try this:
-3 Joraga Warcaller
-3 Overrun
-1 Wellwisher
-1 Forest
-1 Elvish Champion
-1 Elvish Archdruid
+4 Wirewood Symbiote (a must in Elves!)
+4 Elvish Visionary (another must card!)
+2 Crop Rotation (if you have Gaea's Cradle you need these)

Mother of Runes is great you can protect your creatures and attack with protection. I play a lifegain deck here is my list:



Jitte and Serra Ascendant (overpriced because Modern) are not budget friendly but maybe you can take some ideas from the deck :).

-spooky- is right if you play a mono-green non-glimpse version of elves with a lot of untap effect is better to cut Birchlore Rangers for Elvish Archdruid.

I play a budget version of Nightmare Effect, here is my list



You can find more info here http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=384878

Most newer lists don't play Eternal Witness, you can try a mono green list with Ezuri. Changes:

-1 Eternal Witness,-1 Elvish Archdruid, -2 Birchlore Rangers, -1 Grapeshoot, -1 Wirewood Lodge
+2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader, +3 Quirion Ranger, +1 Dryad Arbor

Priest of Titania is better than Elvish Archdruid because she can be put on the battlefield on second turn with the Green Sun's Zenith. If you wanna play Quirion Ranger you must play Dryad Arbor, you can block with Dryad and return it to your hand with Quirion in the same way you can block with an elf and return it with Wirewood Symbiote ;).

Tortured Existence
Wirewood Symbiote
Dark Confidant
Mother of Runes

• Wirewood Symbiote
  
• Joraga Warcaller
  
• Ezuri, Renegade Leader
  
• Elvish Visionary
  
• Sylvan Messenger
  
• Priest of Titania

With Wirewood Symbiote, Priest of Titania or Elvish Archdruid and Elvish Visionary or Sylvan Messenger you can make a good CA engine. If you have Green Sun's Zenith put only a single copy of Ezuri or Joraga Warcaller and attack for the win with a horde of elves with trample.

Try to make a deck with a friend with the Laboratory Maniac theme for modern.



Wath do you think?

I try to think a deck with cards you own and some others low budget cards.