Hangarback Howlpack is a creature-heavy and aggressive Mono-Green deck. With many cost cards, the deck is strong at all points in the game. The deck is built around +1/+1 Counters and casting 0/0 creatures for 0 to trigger Morbid as soon as they hit the battlefield. The deck has several combos which place you in a strong position. Most combos are centered around the Morbid mechanic.
Savage Sages is a powerful creature-based Modern format Simic deck.
The deck is creature heavy and aggressive. The deck's core mechanics are Graveyard recursion and +1 Counters, +1/1 counters are given in many ways including the graft and evolve mechanics, as well as fueling your graveyard with Increasing Savagery and Deadbridge Goliath.
-Savage Sage Combo-
Use Gyre Sage with Increasing Savagery to really ramp up mana. Here's how this combo works: Increasing Savagery places 5 counters on a target creature when it is cast from your hand, and has a Flashback cost for . Each +1/1 counter on Gyre Sage will produce when tapped.Therefore, under the right conditions, Increasing Savagery can be cast twice in one turn, by targeting Gyre Sage then tapping Gyre Sage to Flashback Increasing Savagery; and when it's cast from the graveyard, you get 10 more counters to give any of your creatures.
There are many other ways to add counters to your Gyre Sage. You can graft a counter from Llanowar Reborn or Plaxcaster Frogling, or you can just evolve it. Spellskite, Lotus Cobra and Deadbridge Goliath all have a greater power or toughness than Gyre Sage, so if Gyre Sage has no counters, play those cards to the battlefield to trigger the Evolve mechanic.
I also included a copy of Sage of Hours because the card is so much fun. After casting Increasing Savagery onto Sage of Hours, attack with your 7/7 Sage of Hours, then remove it's counters for an extra turn. During your extra turn, flashback Increasing Savagery and attack with your 12/12 Sage of Hours, then remove the counters for two more extra turns.
Use Kiora's -2 ability to dig for your creatures and lands: You will often get one of each into your hand, but even if not, if you draw into the cards Tracker's Instincts or Increasing Savagery, you can flashback those from your graveyard.
The -8 ability helps remove late-game creatures that are forcing stalemate.
-Mana base-
I chose Llanowar Reborn over cards such as Oran-Rief, the Vastwood because cards like Gyre Sage and Primordial Hydra need counters as soon as they can get them. Miren, the Moaning Well will help you get some value out of your large creatures if your opponent forces you to sacrifice.
Use Windswept Heath and Misty Rainforest to fetch forests and Prairie Stream.
Use Gyre Sage with Increasing Savagery to really ramp up mana. Here's how this combo works: Increasing Savagery places 5 counters on a target creature when it is cast from your hand, and has a Flashback cost for . Each +1/1 counter on Gyre Sage will produce when tapped.Therefore, under the right conditions, Increasing Savagery can be cast twice in one turn, by targeting Gyre Sage then tapping Gyre Sage to Flashback Increasing Savagery; and when it's cast from the graveyard, you get 10 more counters to give any of your creatures.
Use Kiora's -2 ability to dig for your creatures and lands: You will often get one of each into your hand, but even if not, if you draw into the cards Tracker's Instincts or Increasing Savagery, you can flashback those from your graveyard.
In the dense forest of Zendikar, you stumble to find your footing as you slip down a cravasse. Plunging into the jungle, the entangling vines catch your falling body mid-air. Dangling from the canopy, the vines wrap tighter. You feel like a helpless marionette. You cry out for help, but only predators hear. You grab your machete and cut yourself free. The mist below is so thick, it looks like it could be cut as well. Through the dense mist and branches you can faintly perceive movement in the distance. These are the inhabitants of Zendikar, and they surround you.
Undergrowth Canopy is a powerful creature-based Modern format Sultai deck. The deck's name is a portmanteau of Undergrowth Champion and Canopy Cover.
The deck is creature heavy and aggressive. Core mechanics are Landfall and +1 Counters, The landfall is fueled with fetch-lands, while +1/1 counters are given in many ways including the graft and evolve mechanics.
There are many paths to be found to victory, and the objective is to build a consistently strong table of powerful creatures.
Gameplan:
Allow your Undergrowth Champion, Hydras, and Gyre Sages to grow under the safety of Canopy Cover and Plaxcaster Frogling while being assisted by cards like Corpsejack Menace.
4x Caravan Vigil
2x Citanul Flute
1x Endless One
6x Forest
5x Forest
4x Hangarback Walker
4x Hardened Scales
4x Hashep Oasis
4x Hunger of the Howlpack
1x Mistcutter Hydra
2x Mortarpod
2x Nightshade Peddler
1x Pendelhaven
2x Primordial Hydra
1x Savage Summoning
3x Sea Gate Wreckage
4x Walking Ballista
1x Wastes
4x Wild Cantor
1x Yavimaya Coast
1x Choke
2x Hurricane
1x Life Goes On
3x Mistcutter Hydra
3x Natural State
2x Scavenging Ooze
1x Spatial Contortion
2x Warping Wail
Link to deck @ TappedOut.net
Hangarback Howlpack is a creature-heavy and aggressive Mono-Green deck. With many cost cards, the deck is strong at all points in the game. The deck is built around +1/+1 Counters and casting 0/0 creatures for 0 to trigger Morbid as soon as they hit the battlefield. The deck has several combos which place you in a strong position. Most combos are centered around the Morbid mechanic.
Hangarback Howlpack Combo
The Hangarback Howlpack combo involves casting a Hangarback Walker or Walking Ballista for 0 to trigger morbid on Hunger of the Howlpack.
I came up with a combo that might be a bit too powerful for Frontier. I call it Wild Walkers. Fill a deck withWildcall,Walking Ballista, Hangarback Walker, and maybe a few copies of Reclaim.
If you are lucky , you can manifest a Walking Ballista or Hangarback Walker with wildcall. The card can then be flipped for its 0 mana cost. You can also use reclaim once Walking Ballista or Hangarback Walker is in the graveyard to manipulate the top of your library before casting Wildcall.
GUWAggro, Midrange, Combo, Counters- Modern Format
4x Birds of Paradise
2x Lotus Cobra
2x Noble Hierarch
Utility
4x Deadbridge Goliath
1x Plaxcaster Frogling
4x Spellskite
SageCombo
4x Gyre Sage
4x Increasing Savagery
2x Sage of Hours
GrowingThreat
2x Kalonian Hydra
4x Primordial Hydra
3x Kiora, Master of the Depths
2x Tracker's Instincts
Land
9x Forest
2x Island
1x Llanowar Reborn
1x Miren, the Moaning Well
4x Misty Rainforest
1x Prairie Stream
4x Windswept Heath
3x Dauntless Escort
2x Ghost Quarter
2x Kitchen Finks
1x Loxodon Smiter
3x Phyrexian Revoker
1x Plains
3x Qasali Pridemage
Savage Sages is a powerful creature-based Modern format Simic deck.
The deck is creature heavy and aggressive. The deck's core mechanics are Graveyard recursion and +1 Counters, +1/1 counters are given in many ways including the graft and evolve mechanics, as well as fueling your graveyard with Increasing Savagery and Deadbridge Goliath.
Protect your creatures with Spellskite and Plaxcaster Frogling.
-Savage Sage Combo-
Use Gyre Sage with Increasing Savagery to really ramp up mana. Here's how this combo works: Increasing Savagery places 5 counters on a target creature when it is cast from your hand, and has a Flashback cost for . Each +1/1 counter on Gyre Sage will produce when tapped.Therefore, under the right conditions, Increasing Savagery can be cast twice in one turn, by targeting Gyre Sage then tapping Gyre Sage to Flashback Increasing Savagery; and when it's cast from the graveyard, you get 10 more counters to give any of your creatures.
There are many other ways to add counters to your Gyre Sage. You can graft a counter from Llanowar Reborn or Plaxcaster Frogling, or you can just evolve it. Spellskite, Lotus Cobra and Deadbridge Goliath all have a greater power or toughness than Gyre Sage, so if Gyre Sage has no counters, play those cards to the battlefield to trigger the Evolve mechanic.
I also included a copy of Sage of Hours because the card is so much fun. After casting Increasing Savagery onto Sage of Hours, attack with your 7/7 Sage of Hours, then remove it's counters for an extra turn. During your extra turn, flashback Increasing Savagery and attack with your 12/12 Sage of Hours, then remove the counters for two more extra turns.
-Planeswalker-
The Planeswalker is Kiora, Master of the Depths
Use Kiora's +1 ability to untap your Birds of Paradise or Gyre Sage when it has multiple counters on it.
Use Kiora's -2 ability to dig for your creatures and lands: You will often get one of each into your hand, but even if not, if you draw into the cards Tracker's Instincts or Increasing Savagery, you can flashback those from your graveyard.
The -8 ability helps remove late-game creatures that are forcing stalemate.
-Mana base-
I chose Llanowar Reborn over cards such as Oran-Rief, the Vastwood because cards like Gyre Sage and Primordial Hydra need counters as soon as they can get them.
Miren, the Moaning Well will help you get some value out of your large creatures if your opponent forces you to sacrifice.
Use Windswept Heath and Misty Rainforest to fetch forests and Prairie Stream.
11x Forest
7x Island
4x Llanowar Reborn
1x Simic Growth Chamber
Elves
4x Arbor Elf
4x Elvish Archdruid
3x Elvish Harbinger
2x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4x Gyre Sage
2x Leaf Gilder
2x Lifespring Druid
4x Skyrider Elf
2x Bioshift
4x Increasing Savagery
2x Tracker's Instincts
Planeswalker
4x Kiora, Master of the Depths
This deck is a spin on an elves budget deck that includes a core combo consiting of Gyre Sage,Kiora, Master of the Depths, and Increasing Savagery
Use Gyre Sage with Increasing Savagery to really ramp up mana. Here's how this combo works: Increasing Savagery places 5 counters on a target creature when it is cast from your hand, and has a Flashback cost for . Each +1/1 counter on Gyre Sage will produce when tapped.Therefore, under the right conditions, Increasing Savagery can be cast twice in one turn, by targeting Gyre Sage then tapping Gyre Sage to Flashback Increasing Savagery; and when it's cast from the graveyard, you get 10 more counters to give any of your creatures.
Use Kiora's -2 ability to dig for your creatures and lands: You will often get one of each into your hand, but even if not, if you draw into the cards Tracker's Instincts or Increasing Savagery, you can flashback those from your graveyard.
GBU Aggro, Midrange, Combo, Counters- Modern Format
2x Cavern of Souls
8x Forest
1x Island
3x Llanowar Reborn
4x Misty Rainforest
1x Simic Growth Chamber
1x Sunken Hollow
4x Verdant Catacombs
Champion (4)
4x Undergrowth Champion
Planeswalker (1)
1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
Cover (5)
1x Canopy Cover
2x Plaxcaster Frogling
2x Stubborn Denial
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Gyre Sage
2x Lotus Cobra
Quick Counters (6)
1x Aquastrand Spider
1x Corpsejack Menace
4x Increasing Savagery
Removal(1)
1x Merciless Executioner
Powerhouse(7)
4x Kalonian Hydra
3x Primordial Hydra
Double Digging (2)
2x Tracker's Instincts
3x Abrupt Decay
2x Inspiring Call
3x Kitchen Finks
2x Merciless Executioner
2x Spell Pierce
3x Spreading Seas
In the dense forest of Zendikar, you stumble to find your footing as you slip down a cravasse. Plunging into the jungle, the entangling vines catch your falling body mid-air. Dangling from the canopy, the vines wrap tighter. You feel like a helpless marionette. You cry out for help, but only predators hear. You grab your machete and cut yourself free. The mist below is so thick, it looks like it could be cut as well. Through the dense mist and branches you can faintly perceive movement in the distance. These are the inhabitants of Zendikar, and they surround you.
Undergrowth Canopy is a powerful creature-based Modern format Sultai deck. The deck's name is a portmanteau of Undergrowth Champion and Canopy Cover.
The deck is creature heavy and aggressive. Core mechanics are Landfall and +1 Counters, The landfall is fueled with fetch-lands, while +1/1 counters are given in many ways including the graft and evolve mechanics.
There are many paths to be found to victory, and the objective is to build a consistently strong table of powerful creatures.
Gameplan:
Allow your Undergrowth Champion, Hydras, and Gyre Sages to grow under the safety of Canopy Cover and Plaxcaster Frogling while being assisted by cards like Corpsejack Menace.
The deck also contains a combo I call "Savage Sage", consisting of Gyre Sage and Increasing Savagery.