Sure, leaving means we lose quite a bit: Spider Spawning, Forbidden Alchemy, and Merfolk Looter to name a few. But what do we gain? Consistency. Speed. Removal. Answers to some of the biggest threats the previous deck (see my earlier blogs) had.
But enough jawing. Take a look at how it's shaping up now. Also keep in mind that several of these are DKA cards, so the links won't work.
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Creatures: (26) 4x Grim Lavamancer 3x Llanowar Elves 2x Birds of Paradise 3x Viridian Emissary 4x Splinterfright 2x Thrun, the Last Troll 4x Kessig Cagebreakers 1x Primeval Titan 3x Ghoultree | Spells: (13) 4x Faithless Looting 3x Shriekhorn 4x Mulch 1x Gnaw to the Bone 1x Blasphemous Act Lands: (21) 7x Forest 4x Mountain 4x Copperline Gorge 4x Rootbound Crag 2x Kessig Wolf Run | Sideboard: (15) 3x Ancient Grudge 3x Gnaw to the Bone 3x Daybreak Ranger 4x Beast Within 2x Blasphemous Act |
Clearly my single 6-CMC Titan is just testing. With no way to fetch or tutor him in the mb, I'm not sure how valuable he is. But when he comes out... Yeah. The games I pull the Titan I am glad. Would I rather it have been a Cagebreaker? I don't know.
I cut the Boneyard Wurms for more mana dorks, but that costs us more threats. I suppose the Titan fills one of those, but he's a 6-drop and not a 2. Part of my reasoning was that I didn't really need more low-CMC creatures. I wanted bigger ones for later turns, and with Ghoultree usually only costing or , it wasn't so bad.
I pulled the Postmortem Lunge from the sideboard, but mostly because it didn't further my gameplan against any particular opponents whereas the Daybreak Ranger was killer against flying threats.
It just needs more tweaking, as always.
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Posted Jan 20, 2012Thrun mb just plays better for me, not that this deck cares so much for its curve (often enough Splinterfright is the T4 drop).
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Posted Jan 20, 2012