So that's the deck. Stall the board with Maze, Chasm, Tabernacle, and Punishing Grove. Attack their mana with Port, Wasteland and Ghost Quarter, ideally on a loop with Crucible and Exploration/Azusa. With with Depths/Stage, Manland beatdown, a huge Rolling Earthquake with Chasm protecting you, Yasova beats, Punishing Fire grinding, or just resource denial by stripping every land out of their deck and into their yard with Ghost Quarter/Crucible/Azusa.
Intuition can get several useful piles, including:
-Loam, Burnwillows, Punishing Fire
-Loam, Ruins, Explosives (or another artifact)
-Loam, Stage, Depths
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I think the primary engine for this deck is Life from the Loam, and that card plays so well with cycling lands! Since you're not using Blue mana much, you could probably remove a combination of 2 islands, Polluted Delta, or Flooded Strand for 3-4 cycling lands
I think the primary engine for this deck is Life from the Loam, and that card plays so well with cycling lands! Since you're not using Blue mana much, you could probably remove a combination of 2 islands, Polluted Delta, or Flooded Strand for 3-4 cycling lands
I don't want to cut both Islands, because that leaves me without access to Blue mana against Blood Moon/Back to Basics decks, which is a real pain. But I could consider cutting one plus the two off-color blue fetches for Slippery Karst, Forgotten Cave, and another Cycling land. Not a bad suggestion.
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Are three enablers (2 enchantments + azusa) enough? Consider Burgeoning too perhaps?
I'm not sure why you'd want Rolling Earthquake really. TWest is another EExp which just seems better, especially since you can recur it (maybe consider Oblivion Stone too eh?). Oh, and Explore is a fine cantrip for you.
What is urborg TOY doing for you? I fail to see the appeal.
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Are three enablers (2 enchantments + azusa) enough? Consider Burgeoning too perhaps?
I'm not sure why you'd want Rolling Earthquake really. TWest is another EExp which just seems better, especially since you can recur it (maybe consider Oblivion Stone too eh?). Oh, and Explore is a fine cantrip for you.
What is urborg TOY doing for you? I fail to see the appeal.
Tolaria West is definitely something that I missed and am considering.
Burgeoning seems decent and was in an initial draft of the list. It doesn't play as nicely with Crucible, but works well with Loam.
Rolling Earthquake is an early sweeper that can also be used as a wincon later. You're right that it might be the cut for Twest.
Urborg serves to make all of the nonbasics that don't tap for mana (inlcuding Fetches once my duals/basics have run out) be able to tap for colorless. It drastically increases my total mana production ability and enables me to better use Rolling Earthquake as a finisher. If I'm cutting Earthquake, I can probably cut Urborg too (maybe for Bazaar of Baghdad?)
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Lands (34)
1 Dark Depths
1 Thespians' Stage
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Maze of Ith
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Academy Ruins
1 Rishadan Port
1 Wasteland
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Raging Ravine
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Treetop Village
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Windswept Heath
1 Flooded Strand
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Arid Mesa
1 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Taiga
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Grounds
2 Island
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Artifacts (5)
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Horn of Greed
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Expedition Map
1 Zuran Orb
Instants (3)
1 Intuition
1 Punishing Fire
1 Crop Rotation
Sorceries (4)
1 Gamble
1 Life from the Loam
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Rolling Earthquake
Enchantments (2)
1 Exploration
1 Manabond
So that's the deck. Stall the board with Maze, Chasm, Tabernacle, and Punishing Grove. Attack their mana with Port, Wasteland and Ghost Quarter, ideally on a loop with Crucible and Exploration/Azusa. With with Depths/Stage, Manland beatdown, a huge Rolling Earthquake with Chasm protecting you, Yasova beats, Punishing Fire grinding, or just resource denial by stripping every land out of their deck and into their yard with Ghost Quarter/Crucible/Azusa.
Intuition can get several useful piles, including:
-Loam, Burnwillows, Punishing Fire
-Loam, Ruins, Explosives (or another artifact)
-Loam, Stage, Depths
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StaffI don't want to cut both Islands, because that leaves me without access to Blue mana against Blood Moon/Back to Basics decks, which is a real pain. But I could consider cutting one plus the two off-color blue fetches for Slippery Karst, Forgotten Cave, and another Cycling land. Not a bad suggestion.
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Are three enablers (2 enchantments + azusa) enough? Consider Burgeoning too perhaps?
I'm not sure why you'd want Rolling Earthquake really. TWest is another EExp which just seems better, especially since you can recur it (maybe consider Oblivion Stone too eh?). Oh, and Explore is a fine cantrip for you.
What is urborg TOY doing for you? I fail to see the appeal.
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Tolaria West is definitely something that I missed and am considering.
Burgeoning seems decent and was in an initial draft of the list. It doesn't play as nicely with Crucible, but works well with Loam.
Rolling Earthquake is an early sweeper that can also be used as a wincon later. You're right that it might be the cut for Twest.
Urborg serves to make all of the nonbasics that don't tap for mana (inlcuding Fetches once my duals/basics have run out) be able to tap for colorless. It drastically increases my total mana production ability and enables me to better use Rolling Earthquake as a finisher. If I'm cutting Earthquake, I can probably cut Urborg too (maybe for Bazaar of Baghdad?)
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