I've had a multiplayer elf deck for some time now, but I haven't quite been able to get the right mix of elves and gas to keep from stalling out or just losing to wrath. I've tried variants that win through hurricane type cards with life gain. I've tried using slate of ancestry for card draw. With the printing of lifecrafter's bestiary and paradox engine, I saw some new potential for the deck.
Things to note:
I already have a skullclamp deck so I don't want to include that here. Genesis Wave mills gaea's blessing which will trigger its shuffle effect ensuring you never deck yourself with waves.
I only have 1 crossroads and paradox engine right now. I should probably include more but $$$.
Too many Elvish Mystics. You don't need more than 8. It's still important to draw some lands because removal is a thing and don't want to literally be drawing dead to something as simple as Anger of the Gods.
Shaman of Forgotten Ways has permanently supplanted Biorhythm in these types of shells. It's legitimately good to cast on turn 2 off of a mana dork and the fact that Genesis Wave cheats into play is insanely relevant.
Don't run more than 2x Lifecrafter's Bestiary. The card doesn't stack particularly well unless you're nut drawing against goldfish.
Seeker of Skybreak is trash. Not only does she cost twice as much as Quirion Ranger but you also have to wait a turn before using her.
This is what I am thinking so far:
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Priest of Titania
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Seeker of Skybreak
2 Thousand-Year Elixir
1 Paradox Engine
3 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
4 Genesis Wave
1 Biorhythm
2 Gaea's Blessing
2 Wellwisher
1 Concordant Crossroads
Things to note:
I already have a skullclamp deck so I don't want to include that here.
Genesis Wave mills gaea's blessing which will trigger its shuffle effect ensuring you never deck yourself with waves.
I only have 1 crossroads and paradox engine right now. I should probably include more but $$$.
Thoughts?
Shaman of Forgotten Ways has permanently supplanted Biorhythm in these types of shells. It's legitimately good to cast on turn 2 off of a mana dork and the fact that Genesis Wave cheats into play is insanely relevant.
Don't run more than 2x Lifecrafter's Bestiary. The card doesn't stack particularly well unless you're nut drawing against goldfish.
Seeker of Skybreak is trash. Not only does she cost twice as much as Quirion Ranger but you also have to wait a turn before using her.
I don't understand why you'd ever run 2x Gaea's Blessing over 1x Elixir of Immortality/Loaming Shaman. Wasted deck slot.
Cards like that I would mind seeing include Green Sun's Zenith, Wirewood Symbiote + Elvish Visionary, Sylvan Messenger, Harmonize, Kamahl, Fist of Krosa, Soul of the Harvest and Regal Force.
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I've tested this strategy myself using the Nettle Sentinel + Heritage Druid + Glimpse of Nature/Lifecrafter's Bestiary/Beck // Call/Soul of the Harvest style of deck. Needless to say it can lead some extremely quick kills that don't rely on Haste enablers nor Craterhoof Behemoth.
I've also tried testing Sprout Swarm because, well, you can probably guess why I'd want to put Sprout Swarm in my Paradox Engine deck XD.
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