So I'm aware that most ALL Rhys decks focus around making creature tokens and abusing Rhys' doubling ability. My list focuses more on Elf tribal than abusing Rhys' ability, but I enjoy using Rhys as a general because he is green AND white, which matters to me, and I can also use his ability when I've nothing better to do, which is virtually never. Without further ado, my list:
even though the deck seems hyper aggressive, it often plays like a midrange deck. the deck has potential to aggro your face out of nowhere, it can combo out and make infinite mana and elves and therefore life, or it can control the board with sac outlets and martyr's bond.
using wirewood lodge and wirewood symbiote to repeatedly untap priest of titania or the like as extremely powerful, allowing you to produce massive amounts of mana. the symbiote also allows you to block non-trampling attackers with a creature in order to untap rhys or any other ability oriented creature. return a late game oracle of mul daya to pitch to your now untaped fauna shaman, allowing you to find melira and combo off with woodfall primus and ashnod's altar, destroying your opponents land base? count me in. what? you have martyr's bond out as well and now they're all sacrificing creatures too? well, looks like my instant speed wrath of god is better than yours, because I have eldrazi monument out.
i'm musing about including an enlightened tutor into this build in order to grab slate of ancestry, eldrazi monument or pennon blade more quickly. blade on a devoted druid enchanted with presence of gond is infinite tokens. as is a pennon bladed druid with flourishing defenses out. the druid will die if you ever unequip the blade, but every time you untap it with the -1/-1 counter ability, you put an elf into play or sometimes even two or four elves into play, making the druid that much bigger.
remember kids, melira does not work with devoted druid.
if you're so inclined, comment on any suggestions that you can think of.
Rhys the Redeemed
:symbw::symu: Sharuum, the Hegemon :symu::symbw: Grimgrin, Corpse-Born Olivia Voldaren Lovisa Coldeyes
:symwr::symu: Zedruu the Greathearted :symu::symwr:
Creatures (30):
1 copperhorn scout
1 essence warden
1 heritage druid
1 nettle sentinel
1 devoted druid
1 fauna shaman
1 gaea's herald
1 nissa's chosen
1 priest of titania
1 wellwisher
1 wirewood herald
1 elvish archdruid
1 elvish champion
1 elvish harbinger
1 ezuri, renegade leader
1 imperious perfect
1 mul daya channelers
1 timberwatch elf
1 drove of elves
1 heedless one
1 immaculate magistrate
1 lys alana huntmaster
1 oracle of mul daya
1 wilt-leaf liege
1 wirewood channeler
1 wirewood symbiote
1 melira, sylvok outcast
1 seedborn muse
1 vorinclex, the voice of hunger
1 woodfall primus
1 skullclamp
1 ashnod's altar
1 pennon blade
1 thousand-year elixer
1 slate of ancestry
1 coat of arms
1 eldrazi monument
enchantments (15):
1 concordant crossroads
1 helix pinnacle
1 sylvan library
1 aura shards
1 elvish guidance
1 gravity well
1 presence of gond
1 epic struggle
1 glare of subdual
1 parallel lives
1 doubling season
1 flourishing defenses
1 perilous forays
1 mirari's wake
1 martyr's bond
instants (4):
1 worldly tutor
1 path to exile
1 eladmari's call
1 mercy killing
1 green sun's zenith
1 living wish
1 elvish promenade
1 primal command
planeswalkers (3):
1 garruk wildspeaker
1 nissa revane
1 garruk, primal hunter
Lands (36):
1 elfhame palace
1 gavony township
1 mikokoro, center of the sea
1 mistveil plains
1 oran-rief, the vastwood
1 razorverge thicket
1 reliquary tower
1 riftstone portal
1 stirring wildwood
1 sungrass prairie
1 sunpetal grove
1 wirewood lodge
1 wooded bastion
21 forest
2 plains
even though the deck seems hyper aggressive, it often plays like a midrange deck. the deck has potential to aggro your face out of nowhere, it can combo out and make infinite mana and elves and therefore life, or it can control the board with sac outlets and martyr's bond.
using wirewood lodge and wirewood symbiote to repeatedly untap priest of titania or the like as extremely powerful, allowing you to produce massive amounts of mana. the symbiote also allows you to block non-trampling attackers with a creature in order to untap rhys or any other ability oriented creature. return a late game oracle of mul daya to pitch to your now untaped fauna shaman, allowing you to find melira and combo off with woodfall primus and ashnod's altar, destroying your opponents land base? count me in. what? you have martyr's bond out as well and now they're all sacrificing creatures too? well, looks like my instant speed wrath of god is better than yours, because I have eldrazi monument out.
i'm musing about including an enlightened tutor into this build in order to grab slate of ancestry, eldrazi monument or pennon blade more quickly. blade on a devoted druid enchanted with presence of gond is infinite tokens. as is a pennon bladed druid with flourishing defenses out. the druid will die if you ever unequip the blade, but every time you untap it with the -1/-1 counter ability, you put an elf into play or sometimes even two or four elves into play, making the druid that much bigger.
remember kids, melira does not work with devoted druid.
if you're so inclined, comment on any suggestions that you can think of.
current want list:
:symbw::symu: Sharuum, the Hegemon :symu::symbw:
:symwr::symu: Zedruu the Greathearted :symu::symwr: