MTG Salvation

I've just been turned on to this format, and was hoping to get some critiques on my first deck. Since his printing, I've always wanted to build a deck for this guy, but was never able to move it past casual fun.




My Sideboard is still a work in progress, but I was hoping to get some feedback on the main deck first.
Thanks in advance!

Love love love Thelon, he's so cool. I'm gonna go into this post assuming you've already got all of the basic creatures that are givens for this deck.

First off, Necrogenesis. Costs twice as much as Night's Soil to activate, but only having to remove one creature is huge.

I kinda like Fecundity and Golgari Germination in this deck. You can draw so many cards off of those saprolings it's unreal. Germination is just another great generator for tokens, much more so than Sarpadian Empires or Druid Satchel.

You may want to consider Grim Affliction, but you definitely want Contagion Clasp.

The random pump spells seem kind of...random. Consider some more Naturalize effects. I also like Fists of Ironwood as a Saproling Krenko's Command and Korozda Guildmage is pretty decent for generating tokens too. Could fit the Guildmage into the Ebony Treefolk slot, as he seems kind of random.

PopeJP, thanks for the info, especially Contagion Clasp. I would've missed that one for sure. You're right that the treefolk was kind of random, I wanted one more body and he self pumped. I dismissed the guildmage at first, but I'll give him a second look.

Based on your feedback, I'll try the following changes to my deck and see how it feels:
-1 Ebony Treefolk / +1 Korozda Guildmage
-1 Might of Old Krosa / +1 Natural End
-1 Sylvan Might / +1 Fecundity
-1 Night Soil / +1 Necrogenesis
-1 Flash Foliage / +1 Golgari Germination
-1 Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII / +1 Contagion Clasp

Also, what is your opinion of Ghostly Changeling? He self pumps, and as a changeling he has synergy with Thelon.

I'd go ahead and ditch Druidic Satchel for Grim Afflication while you're at it. In this format it's going to kill something, plus you get the Proliferate.

Re Ghostly Changeling, I'm not a fan. You're not going to have extra mana to throw around a lot so his pump isn't that impressive. If you wanted to go with a changeling I'd just recommend Woodland Changeling; very vanilla, but it only costs two for the same base power and toughness as the black ones.

I'd go ahead and ditch Druidic Satchel for Grim Affliction while you're at it. In this format it's going to kill something, plus you get the Proliferate.

Re Ghostly Changeling, I'm not a fan. You're not going to have extra mana to throw around a lot so his pump isn't that impressive. If you wanted to go with a changeling I'd just recommend Woodland Changeling; very vanilla, but it only costs two for the same base power and toughness as the black ones.

Updated changes in the OP. Also, finally found my Revised duals so out goes Temple of Malady, in comes Bayou! Also, Xantid Swarm moved to potential sideboard, Elves of Deep Shadow join the party.

Why Elves of the Deep Shadow? You don't need the fixing that bad and your deck overwhelmingly wants green mana. No point in taking the ping from her, may as well just use Llanowar Elves or one of his incarnations.

Yeah, don't know what I was thinking. EoDS sounded like a good idea at the time. I've already swapped it out for Birds of Paradise. Updated Op

while not a fungus Champion of Lambholt has some good synergy as does Beastmaster Ascension