MTG Salvation

Hello all,

Long time Stalker, part time poster. I jumped onto the Devoted Druid combo hype train. I have created a real rough sketch of a deck and I am looking for some direction. Please feel free to criticize it and offer suggestions etc.

The perfect scenario game one would be to create infinite mana and shoot them in the face with Walking Ballista. I have included Spellskite to help protect the creature combo because lets be honest Fatal push/Bolt etc makes it fragile. I have also included some other infinite mana payoff cards such as Emrakul etc.

MB
Creatures

4x Birds of Paradise
4x Devoted Druid
3x Duskwatch Recruiter
1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1x Hangarback Walker
2x Renegade Rallier
2x Spellskite
1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4x Vizier of Remedies
1x Walking Ballista
1x World Breaker

Land
3x Forest
4x Horizon Canopy
1x Plains
2x Razorverge Thicket
4x Temple Garden
4x Windswept Heath

Instant
2x Chord of Calling
4x Path to Exile
2x Summoner's Pact

Sorcery
4x Commune with Nature
2x Explore
4x Seek the Wilds

Sideboard
1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
2x Drain the Well
2x Nature's Claim
1x Scavenging Ooze
2x Summoning Trap
2x Surgical Extraction

How about an infinite mana sink creature that you can Chord of Calling for in order to win at instant speed, such as Valakut Invoker?

4 Summoners Pact
4 Chord of Calling/Tooth and Nail

Just get those two creatures, and blow them out with a combo. Forget trying to dig (great 3rd way to tutor), but with 8 tutoring, and multiple ways to pact as well, it's well worth trying it out. Going with Black will allow to protect the combo better as well.

If you are in the colors GW Congregation at Dawn seems to do a nice job. Also is Melira, Sylvok Outcast another Vizier of Remedies or doesn't that work?

Melira shuts off devoted druid.

Me too have been messing around with the combo and would love to have some opinion.



Vizier of Remedies + Kitchen Finks = A Finks that keeps coming back. (No idea if its worth to splash black for viscera seer for infinite life)

Vizier of Remedies + Devoted Druid + Chord of Calling or Duskwatch Recruiter lets us search for any win con, Mirror Entity, Rhonas the Indomitable, Walking Ballista (Can only be search by Duskwatch Recruiter)

Having Eternal Witness can lead to some fancy interaction where if you have Devoted Druid in play and a Chord of Calling in hand, you can chord for Vizier of Remedies make the infinite mana cast Eternal Witness take back Chord of Calling and go find the winning piece.

Just for fun, I even thought of using spawnsire of ulamog as a win con too.

And if worst we can't find our combo, our creatures should be efficient enough to win games by beating down. Mirror Entity helps here, acting like a pseudo Gavony Township.

Thoughts?

i like your idea of mirror entity, and selfless spirits. maybe 3 spirits and no spellskite main?

Here is my most recent update

Creature (22)
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Devoted Druid
3x Duskwatch Recruiter
1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1x Hangarback Walker
1x Rhonas the Indomitable
2x Spellskite
4x Vizier of Remedies
2x Walking Ballista
Instant (14)
2x Apostle's Blessing
2x Chord of Calling
4x Collected Company
4x Path to Exile
2x Summoner's Pact
Land (20)
1x Forest
4x Horizon Canopy
1x Marsh Flats
1x Plains
2x Razorverge Thicket
2x Scattered Groves
4x Temple Garden
1x Verdant Catacombs
4x Windswept Heath
Sorcery (4)
4x Commune with Nature
Sideboard (14)
2x Anguished Unmaking
1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
2x Drain the Well
1x Leyline of Sanctity
1x Leyline of the Void
2x Nature's Claim
1x Stony Silence
2x Summoning Trap
2x Surgical Extraction

mistcutter hydra or nemesis hydra??
Like the Idea og the combo:)

Location: Michigan
Join Date: 9/4/2011
Posts: 101
Here is my most recent update

Creature (22)
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Devoted Druid
3x Duskwatch Recruiter
1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1x Hangarback Walker
1x Rhonas the Indomitable
2x Spellskite
4x Vizier of Remedies
2x Walking Ballista
Instant (14)
2x Apostle's Blessing
2x Chord of Calling
4x Collected Company
4x Path to Exile
2x Summoner's Pact
Land (20)
1x Forest
4x Horizon Canopy
1x Marsh Flats
1x Plains
2x Razorverge Thicket
2x Scattered Groves
4x Temple Garden
1x Verdant Catacombs
4x Windswept Heath
Sorcery (4)
4x Commune with Nature
Sideboard (14)
2x Anguished Unmaking
1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
2x Drain the Well
1x Leyline of Sanctity
1x Leyline of the Void
2x Nature's Claim
1x Stony Silence
2x Summoning Trap
2x Surgical Extraction
Have List

My only concern on your list is that Collected Company hits rate. Both Hangarback Walker and Walking Ballista cannot be Coco out. IMO one Walking Ballista as a combo finisher is enough.

mistcutter hydra or nemesis hydra??

Depending on your build, I would try to avoid x/x creatures. If you don't run any collected company I think its fine.

The most common scenario would be you go infinite Chord for Duskwatch, find your x/x creature or just cast all your green mana symbol creatures from your deck.

i like your idea of mirror entity, and selfless spirits. maybe 3 spirits and no spellskite main?

Yea I probably should just replace for a spirit since fatal push is a thing.

im Going to make a bant version Tonight and "publish" og lærer. gonna be diffrent

Here're the two versions I am brewing if anyone is interested:

Bant: https://deckbox.org/sets/1679691
More interaction, the ability to run counterspells, completely immune to graveyard hate except one eternal witness.

Naya: https://deckbox.org/sets/1686911
Gets to play 4 wolf runs as combo pieces, which I think will likely make this the go-forward version of the deck. Possible knight of the reliquary belongs but I tried this as all-in -- rallier returns any combo piece, witness and flickerwisp provide a ton of card advantage, and the ratio of castable creatures with infinite green is much higher.

Rallier does a lot of work in this deck potentially, enabling our colors for wolf run and retrieving wolf run from land destruction. Overall very strong. Not sure of any numbers.

The downside to this build is Wolf run as a combo piece discourages us from running magus of the moon who is otherwise great in the shell. Possible it is correct to have one in the board anyway.

With Red, I thought Harsh Mentor could be a good SB option for the mirror, Kiki Chord and so on. If I were you I would keep a Rhonas the Indomittable and cut at least 1x Kessig Wolf Run.
You can also have Greater Gargadon to combo off with Kitchen Finks and Vizier, but I assume you already know that.

The problem I have with your blue version is that you want to Coco during 1st main phases in order to win on the spot, and it doesn't play well with Spell Queller at all. I'm also not a fan of 8 UW creatures that don't get advantage of infinite green mana.
I played a lot of blue Pod and Coco decks and one card that pleased me was Kira, Great-Glass Spinner to protect weak combo pieces. Just a card to keep in mind.

This combo is seeing some play in G/W elves with Ezuri, Renegade Leader the wincon. Decklist. Devoted Druid x2 + Ezuri has been a long standing infinite combo, and the fast mana of the deck lets you power out chords and companies more reliably.

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With Red, I thought Harsh Mentor could be a good SB option for the mirror, Kiki Chord and so on. If I were you I would keep a Rhonas the Indomittable and cut at least 1x Kessig Wolf Run.
You can also have Greater Gargadon to combo off with Kitchen Finks and Vizier, but I assume you already know that.

The problem I have with your blue version is that you want to Coco during 1st main phases in order to win on the spot, and it doesn't play well with Spell Queller at all. I'm also not a fan of 8 UW creatures that don't get advantage of infinite green mana.
I played a lot of blue Pod and Coco decks and one card that pleased me was Kira, Great-Glass Spinner to protect weak combo pieces. Just a card to keep in mind.

Yeah, all these things are true about bant version. I was trying hard to make something with more interaction and it did not pan out at all. Even a few game was enough to feel the tension with queller and mage. I felt before trying it that Naya was the way to go, but I had the blue cards on hand to try

What I am gonna do with Naya is try 3 wolf runs/1 slayers' stronghold -- stronghold allowing you to combo off in one turn for 7 mana (or for 5 mana if you already have a vizier on board) is pretty strong. The thing is that with the creatures I'm picking the red splash is so minor it's only really needed for a land activation and only then sometimes. So I think the manabase can support 23 lands and 4 specials, particularly since a basic mountain is mostly irrelevant (blood moon shuts off all our red stuff). I've also increased the dork count from standard company by 3 (1 noble 2 druids) so those mana sources should counteract the extra utility land.

My experience thus far with mirror entity has been that it wins games Rhonas would not. It can protect your board from sweepers and kill without needing infinite mana. Fringe benefit of random free wins vs. Merfolk notwithstanding I think entity is just a better card in the deck most likely.

Rhonas may be better in naya if played with Knight of the Reliquary; they synergise pretty well (with knight activating Rhonas and benefitting from trampling). Will definitely consider it more.

in Naya you could do tooth and nail for emrakul and xenagos. in sb you could have banefire against control

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I have build a GW version of the deck in mtgo but had a hard time against Lantern Control. How to sideboard for that? I think once Ensnaring Bridge hits the table in G1 it's GG? A single mainboard Qasali won't help too beat I guess?

You can swing with a 0/2 druid then pump it infinitely large with entity or rhonas.

I saw this deck played on a video of against the odds. Opponent player it and was the Gideon decks only loss. Deck looked sweet with the junk build. Iok, seize, scullers, finks, etc.

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I have build a GW version of the deck in mtgo but had a hard time against Lantern Control. How to sideboard for that? I think once Ensnaring Bridge hits the table in G1 it's GG? A single mainboard Qasali won't help too beat I guess?

You can swing with a 0/2 druid then pump it infinitely large with entity or rhonas.

That or Reclamation Sage over Qasali because of the CC of it.

When you go off, you can tutor out duskwatch for sage and cast with it, not needing any white mana.

Also not forgetting walking balista also gets the job done.

IMO you need a non trivial amount of spellskites/selfless spirits in the MB or you're just going to go the way of Cheeri0s. I'd pack at least 5 total in some combination. Path/Push/Bolt on devoted druid turns you into a slow coco deck.

You can play primal command instead of chord if you're legitimately concerned about that many hate permanents. I don't think it's a legitimate concern really. Can up the number of rec sages if you want too.

Feels like that list just dies to any combo or fast aggro deck. You kinda do need to run either discard, counters or some control elements when trying to play a 3 card combo deck.

I agree on the selfless spirits, since your list is running so many rallier, the spirit perform double duties.

Protect your board and trigger revolt.

Another plus, rallier can bring back the spirit too!

Here's My list I have multiable combos and Troll Worship just for fun. Is there a land that we can dump infinite mana in? I need a Creature that can search up the worship. EDIT.

There is Kessig Wolf Run if you are willing to play one off Stomping Ground on your list.

I highly recommend Duskwatch Recruiter thou, its a mana sink and lets you play everything from your deck when you have the combo. Also Walking Ballista can only be search out by him. Chord and CoCo can't get ballista sadly.

I would remove Commune for Duskwatch Recruiter to increase the hit rate on CoCo. Just a thought.

As for searching for worship, I can only find Lost Auramancers. haha..