So I traded for a really pretty FNM Tendrils of Agony and figured I'd make a deck based on it. I don't enjoy creating infinite combos, so here's what I came up with.
The idea is to draw a card every time I cast or kill a creature (with Fecundity and whatnot) in addition to a way gain mana whenever I cast a creature (like Citanul Hierophants+Nettle Sentinel, then gain a reasonably large storm count and burn the table out or overrun them with tokens/essence of the wilds.
I love this idea, I don't think I would have thought to do this in creature form. I was reading your post on my phone earlier and took some notes, I hope this isn't to disjointed. I have played a version of Bobthefunny's Tibor and Lumia spellslinger. I am making a storm based Riku version of it, it is really strong but it is really hard not to go infinite. I also have a 5c artifact storm deck on the horizon. I basically thought of more random cards based on what I have in those decks when reading your list. A lot of what I list I have creature versions too because it might be better for feeding the engine.
Sensei's Divining Top is pretty good draw with future sight, cheap, and can funnel extra mana for upping your storm. Sylvan Library would be early game and is cheap form storm, but I like Sensei's here more.
Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar both seem like all stars to get more mana out of your guys. Also important to note the sacrifice is a cost and they are mana sources so you can use them through anything. Living Death could be used as a board wipe early, or in conjunction with your sac outlets to let you use and abuse your creatures again. It is an all star in Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed. Blood Artist is a cheap creature that works really with Living Death. He is kind of a mini storm effect when your bulk saccing things, and a cheap creature to storm into.
In T&L Turnabout is amazing, you can untap your creatures or lands here with it to keep your turn going. In Riku, I cannot say enough good things about Early Harvest and Rude Awakening to join Turnabout. Other mana things that could be good here are Helm of Awakening as essentially 1 more mana each creature (but sensei's this and future sight is draw your library -I don't do infinite either). And the green mana Flare - Heartbeat of Spring.
Also its important to make sure your creatures are as crisp as possible. I love Scute mob, but he might be better off as a Dark Confidant or Snapcaster mage. Other strong utility can be found in Eternal Witness (or regrowth) and Trinket Mage. I also just feel the need to mention Ornithoptor and his 0cc friends boring as they are.
I also need to put my vote in for adding Frantic Search and Gaeas Cradle. Maybe even Snap - It can be used defensivly, or to fuel your draw by reusing a creature. Cheap Black Tutors demonic+vampiric. Of course are always good for getting a combo going. Also there is of course Ad Nauseam and Skirge Familiar that could possibly help get things going as well. And finally as an afterthought, because your creatures do so much mana, could winter orb just sort of win you the game some times?
So anyhow, fun looking deck. I hope some of this helps to make it more reliable for you.
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Gitrog Lands
Merieke Ri Berit Flicker
Ramos, Dragon Engine Storm
Just played 3 games with this tonight against 5c planes walkers and mono-R beats.
Game 1- one player got mana screwed and scute mob single handedly took him to 20. Small storm tendrils him, swarm the other with essence of the wilds. Deck ran flawlessly.
Game 2- attacked someone to draw a handleful of cards with Edric. Stormed out hard. Half-way through my storming one player wheeled us with jace's archivist and I had to discard tendrils and my two ways to get it back. I continued storming, and made about 30 essence of the wilds. Shipped the turn. Man milled me to death with archivist. Horrible punt on my part, all my sac outlets were essence of the wilds so I couldn't live with grave purge.
Game 3 - 5c control man goes crazy and mills me for 20 with jace 1.0 then reanimates 20 of my creatures plus Edric, ultimating with liliana. Then casts maelstrum wanderer cascading into venser to make them unblockable with no max hand size. Previously playing wipe away of my fecundity in response to a wrath really did me in though.
This deck has also undergone some massive changes in the past 6 years that I've been playing with it. It is the only deck I've ever played with that I prefer to play goldfishing by myself than with an actual opponent. The experience is usually roughly the same for me either way, and when only playing with myself I don't waste a half hour of someone else's time.
1 Damia, Sage of Stone
Creatures (1CC) - 36
1 Viridian Acolyte
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Taunting Elf
1 Nettle Sentinel
1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Gladecover Scout
1 Scattershot Archer
1 Whippoorwill
1 Savaen Elves
1 Skyshroud Ranger
1 Tree Monkey
1 Weatherseed Elf
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Scryb Sprites
1 Joraga Warcaller
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Arbor Elf
1 Centaur's Herald
1 Mold Adder
1 Magus of the Vineyard
1 Marsh Boa
1 Orochi Leafcaller
1 Ana Disciple
1 Scute Mob
1 Llanowar Mentor
1 Deathgreeter
1 Viscera Seer
1 Death Cultist
1 Fume Spitter
1 Initiates of the Ebon hand
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Slitherhead
1 Hex Parasite
1 Signal Pest
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Mind's Desire
1 Hunting Pack
1 Essence of the Wild
Creature Draw Cards - 6
1 Fecundity
1 Null Profusion
1 Harvester of Souls
1 Skullclamp
1 Recycle
1 Soul of the Harvest
Misc Draw Cards - 7
1 Rites of Flourishing
1 Trade Secrets
1 Gravepurge
1 Footbottom Feast
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Coastal Piracy
1 Time Reversal
1 Jace's archivist
Mana Cards - 5
1 Citanul Hierophants
1 Thornbite staff
1 Aluren
1 Earthcraft
1 Tangleroot
1 Caravan Vigil
1 Abundant Growth
1 crop rotation
1 Sol Ring
1 Noxious Revival
1 Green Sun Zenith
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Concordant Crossroads
Lands - 31
1 Dryad Arbor
30 Lands
Change list
1CC creature - crop rotation
1CC creature - jace's archivist
The Ur-Dragon (WUBRG) - Changeling Combo Tribal
Chromium (WUB) - Artifact Beats
Progenitus (WUBRG) - Dredge
Damia, Sage of Stone (GBU) - Elf-storm Tendrils
My Cube Unpowered
My Peasant-ish/Tribal-ish Cube
Hakim, Loreweaver
Autumn Willow
Yomiji, Who Bars the Way
Hanna, Ship's Navigator
Chromium
Skyfire Kirin
Future Sight / Magus of the Future / Oracle of Mul Daya. These all increase your reach, and let you dig a bit deeper (For cycling past lands there is also Azusa Lost but Seeking, Trade Routes - love this one, Explore (this one too), Exploration, Walking Atlas, maybe even cream of the crop to bury lands each time you cast a creature).
Sensei's Divining Top is pretty good draw with future sight, cheap, and can funnel extra mana for upping your storm. Sylvan Library would be early game and is cheap form storm, but I like Sensei's here more.
Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar both seem like all stars to get more mana out of your guys. Also important to note the sacrifice is a cost and they are mana sources so you can use them through anything. Living Death could be used as a board wipe early, or in conjunction with your sac outlets to let you use and abuse your creatures again. It is an all star in Xiahou Dun, The One Eyed. Blood Artist is a cheap creature that works really with Living Death. He is kind of a mini storm effect when your bulk saccing things, and a cheap creature to storm into.
In T&L Turnabout is amazing, you can untap your creatures or lands here with it to keep your turn going. In Riku, I cannot say enough good things about Early Harvest and Rude Awakening to join Turnabout. Other mana things that could be good here are Helm of Awakening as essentially 1 more mana each creature (but sensei's this and future sight is draw your library -I don't do infinite either). And the green mana Flare - Heartbeat of Spring.
Also its important to make sure your creatures are as crisp as possible. I love Scute mob, but he might be better off as a Dark Confidant or Snapcaster mage. Other strong utility can be found in Eternal Witness (or regrowth) and Trinket Mage. I also just feel the need to mention Ornithoptor and his 0cc friends boring as they are.
I also need to put my vote in for adding Frantic Search and Gaeas Cradle. Maybe even Snap - It can be used defensivly, or to fuel your draw by reusing a creature. Cheap Black Tutors demonic+vampiric. Of course are always good for getting a combo going. Also there is of course Ad Nauseam and Skirge Familiar that could possibly help get things going as well. And finally as an afterthought, because your creatures do so much mana, could winter orb just sort of win you the game some times?
So anyhow, fun looking deck. I hope some of this helps to make it more reliable for you.
Gitrog Lands
Merieke Ri Berit Flicker
Ramos, Dragon Engine Storm
Game 1- one player got mana screwed and scute mob single handedly took him to 20. Small storm tendrils him, swarm the other with essence of the wilds. Deck ran flawlessly.
Game 2- attacked someone to draw a handleful of cards with Edric. Stormed out hard. Half-way through my storming one player wheeled us with jace's archivist and I had to discard tendrils and my two ways to get it back. I continued storming, and made about 30 essence of the wilds. Shipped the turn. Man milled me to death with archivist. Horrible punt on my part, all my sac outlets were essence of the wilds so I couldn't live with grave purge.
Game 3 - 5c control man goes crazy and mills me for 20 with jace 1.0 then reanimates 20 of my creatures plus Edric, ultimating with liliana. Then casts maelstrum wanderer cascading into venser to make them unblockable with no max hand size. Previously playing wipe away of my fecundity in response to a wrath really did me in though.
Overall I'm happy with how it ran though.
The Ur-Dragon (WUBRG) - Changeling Combo Tribal
Chromium (WUB) - Artifact Beats
Progenitus (WUBRG) - Dredge
Damia, Sage of Stone (GBU) - Elf-storm Tendrils
My Cube Unpowered
My Peasant-ish/Tribal-ish Cube
The main change for this deck was acquiring a Gaea's Cradle. That card single handedly makes this deck massively stronger. This deck can generate over 10 million damage while storming off. Turns out Paradox Engine + Magus of the Candelabra + Gaea's Cradle + Hunting Pack and several hundred storm generates a lot of mana to dump into Joraga Warcaller.
I should really add a Phyrexian Altar. I'm also thinking of adding Elvish Spirit Guide. I wish I'd picked up a Timetwister before they started costing as much as a cheap car.
Magical-Christmas Land with this deck is
T1 - Land, Magus of the Vineyard
T2 - Land, Sol Ring -> Cadaverous Bloom (exile last card from opening hand and both cards drawn from turn 1 and 2) -> Ad Nauseam -> Kill Table
1 Arbor Elf
1 Birchlore Rangers
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Boreal Druid
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Diligent Farmhand
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Elvish Lyrist
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Elvish Pioneer
1 Elvish Skysweeper
1 Essence Warden
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gnarlroot Trapper
1 Heritage Druid
1 Initiates of the Ebon Hand
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Joraga Warcaller
1 Krosan Wayfarer
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Magus of the Candelabra
1 Magus of the Vineyard
1 Nettle Sentinel
1 Nurturer Initiate
1 Orochi Leafcaller
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Scavenger Folk
1 Skyshroud Ranger
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Veteran Explorer
1 Viridian Acolyte
1 Viscera Seer
1 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Cloud of Faeries
1 Priest of Titania
1 Wirewood Hivemaster
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Citanul Hierophants
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Harvester of Souls
1 Primordial Sage
1 Soul of the Harvest
1 Concordant Crossroads
1 Cryptolith Rite
1 Earthcraft
1 Fecundity
1 Aluren
1 Guardian Project
1 Cadaverous Bloom
1 Recycle
Artifact (5)
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Tangleroot
1 Paradox Engine
Instant (6)
1 Crop Rotation
1 Footbottom Feast
1 Frantic Search
1 Gravepurge
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Hunting Pack
Sorcery (5)
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Time Reversal
1 Time Spiral
Basic Land (29)
1 Breeding Pool
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Dryad Arbor
7 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
3 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Rogue's Passage
6 Swamp
1 Underground River
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Elvish Lyrist
1 Elvish Skysweeper
1 Essence Warden
1 Joraga Warcaller
1 Initiates of the Ebon Hand
1 Nurturer Initiate
1 Orochi Leafcaller
1 Scavenger Folk
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Viridian Acolyte1
1 Wirewood Hivemaster
1 Elvish Pioneer
Mana Creatures (20)
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gnarlroot Trapper
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Diligent Farmhand
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Arbor Elf
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Boreal Druid
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Krosan Wayfarer
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Magus of the Vineyard
1 Nettle Sentinel
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Skyshroud Ranger
1 Veteran Explorer
1 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Priest of Titania
1 Dimir House Guard
1 Viscera Seer
1 Carrion Feeder
Card Draw (repeatable) (9)
1 Recycle
1 Guardian Project
1 Primordial Sage
1 Soul of the Harvest
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Skullclamp
1 Fecundity
1 Harvester of Souls
1 Grim Haruspex
Card Draw (1 Shot) (6)
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Footbottom Feast
1 Gravepurge
1 Time Reversal
1 Time Spiral
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
Mana Generation (11)
1 Concordant Crossroads
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Heritage Druid
1 Birchlore Rangers
1 Earthcraft
1 Cryptolith Rite
1 Citanul Hierophants
1 Aluren
1 Cadaverous Bloom
1 Tangleroot
1 Paradox Engine
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Crop Rotation
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Frantic Search
1 Cloud of Faeries
1 Magus of the Candelabra
Storm (2)
1 Hunting Pack
1 Tendrils of Agony
Utility/Sol Ring (2)
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Sol Ring
Basic Land (29)
1 Breeding Pool
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Dryad Arbor
7 Forest
3 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Rogue's Passage
6 Swamp
1 Underground River
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Caravan Vigil
1 Abundant Growth
1 Noxious Revival
1 Mind's Desire
1 Null Profusion
1 Rites of Flourishing
1 Trade Secrets
1 Coastal Piracy
1 Thornbite staff
3 Forest
Non-Creatures Added (9)
1 Guardian Project
1 Cryptolith Rite
1 Cadaverous Bloom
1 Paradox Engine
1 Frantic Search
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Time Spiral
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Gaea's Cradle
Creature Cuts (21)
1 Jace's archivist
1 Essence of the Wild
1 Taunting Elf
1 Gladecover Scout
1 Scattershot Archer
1 Whippoorwill
1 Savaen Elves
1 Tree Monkey
1 Weatherseed Elf
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Scryb Sprites
1 Centaur's Herald
1 Mold Adder
1 Marsh Boa
1 Ana Disciple
1 Scute Mob
1 Llanowar Mentor
1 Deathgreeter
1 Death Cultist
1 Fume Spitter
1 Slitherhead
1 Hex Parasite
1 Signal Pest
1 Birchlore Rangers
1 Boreal Druid
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Diligent Farmhand
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Elvish Lyrist
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Elvish Pioneer
1 Elvish Skysweeper
1 Essence Warden
1 Gnarlroot Trapper
1 Heritage Druid
1 Krosan Wayfarer
1 Magus of the Candelabra
1 Nurturer Initiate
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Scavenger Folk
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Cloud of Faeries
1 Priest of Titania
1 Wirewood Hivemaster
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Beast Whisperer
The Ur-Dragon (WUBRG) - Changeling Combo Tribal
Chromium (WUB) - Artifact Beats
Progenitus (WUBRG) - Dredge
Damia, Sage of Stone (GBU) - Elf-storm Tendrils
My Cube Unpowered
My Peasant-ish/Tribal-ish Cube