MTG Salvation

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This deck started as a concept piece. I was discussing with a friend how I had virtually locked him out the night before in a 1v1 game landing an early Strip Mine and Crucible of Worlds. I often ask myself "How can I make this more broken?" How hilarious would it be if I could do that five times a turn, by having Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration, and Oracle of Mul Daya? A silly concept, but it was the spark I needed to go home and put together a new deck. I added Sensei's Divining Top and Sylvan Library to control the top deck, fetch lands to synergize with Crucible and Top, and Life From teh Loam to get lands back to do it again! I quickly was able to assemble a deck around this core.

The deck may have been conceived with humorous ill intent in mind, but land destruction is typically reserved for the Cradles and Coffers of the world. This deck is all about DRAW! OK, its about ramping too. I don't run any of the typical sorcery-based ramp solutions, but rather rely on Azusa to dump my hand of lands and some mana dorks to get me to big mana land. Since I'm playing my cards faster, I need extra cards, so I've focused the deck around this aspect. Draw when you play creatures. Draw when you play lands. Draw when the other dudes draw. The goal is to speed through your deck to get to big mana and big dudes, highlighted by Mr. Craterhoof Behemoth and his best friend, Avenger of Zendikar. Along the way, feel free to have other friends stop by, such as Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and Blightsteel Colossus. Alternatively, invite the whole gang with a big, fat Genesis Wave (insert evil laugh here).

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• Because she's awesome. And you know it.
• You like exploding out of the gates and playing big spells early
• You like taking long turns when your draw synergy pieces come together and the cards keep coming
• Killing the table with an army of beast-enabled mana dorks feels good

• Your a control player and want to grind it out
• Fast kills and fast games give you motion sickness
• You don't like scaring people with your explosive board state
• You want to combo out by turn four

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Current Deck Stats: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/azusa-wherever-i-may-roam/

I found out real quickly that this deck is EXPLOSIVE. A turn 1 Sol Ring or Mana Crypt can completely warp the game, allowing me to dump my hand with Azusa. It became quite apparent that I needed more card draw. Where this really gets going is with Primordial Sage, Soul of the Harvest, and Zendikar Resurgent. I am pumping out a lot of creatures, and this allows me to rifle through my deck pretty quickly. Horn of Greed is also an all star addition, since I'm playing more lands than anyone.

Combos:
Recyle + Abundance: THIS. With Abundance I can guarantee my land drops first. For each card played, I get another one. Once I've maxed my land drops for the turn, I can then start selecting non-lands, speeding through my deck. There is danger with this combo, because if someone discards your hand, you no longer have a draw step. Luckily it hasn't happened to me yet.

Abundance + Sylvan Library: You get to keep all 3 cards from your draw step without paying life. Welcome to broken city.

Wirewood Lodge + Argothian Elder + Gaea's Cradle: Infinite mana. This will also work for Nykthos if you can generate a lot of green mana with it. You first tap Cradle (note, at least 2 creatures must be in play for this to work). Then you tap Argothian Elder to untap Wirewood Lodge and Cradle. You use Wirewood Lodge to untap Argothian Elder with one of the green that is floating, re-tap Cradle, rinse, repeat.

I'm happy for all suggestions. I play this deck on MTGO, so the meta is extremely mixed. Here are some current ideas:

Considering

• Soul of New Phyrexia
  
• Natural Order
  
• Ezuri's Predation
  
• Regal Force
  
• Cryptolith Rite
  
• Elemental Bond
  
• Staff of Domination
  
• Doubling Cube
  

Possible Cuts

• Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  

Reserved

I edited the OP a bit more, adding a Change Log. Mostly replacing lands I never want to draw, upgrading to Greenwarden, and swapping mana dorks. Ant Queen feels fairly dead so I replaced with Acidic Slime since I'm so light on removal.

I'm going to try and invest some more time into the post and build out interactions. The draw synergies are my favourite part of the deck and I'd like to describe those a bit. I'm trying to find some other draw engines that are 3-4 mana or less to help get things going early. Horn of Greed has been so good.

Why dont you run things like caged sun? Or gauntlet of power? Those with a Doubling Cube are very good and push you so far ahead very early in the game.

I see a lot of green decks so I may stray away from Gauntlet of Power. Caged Sun is definitely a consideration. I'm running Mana Reflection right now at the 6 drop slot which acts as a full doubler for green sources and my other sources. The +1/+1 is a nice addition though. Doubling Cube is definitely a strong consideration. I have it in Kruphix and I think it could do some work here too.

I dont know if u have ever considerd it but another really good card when u have a lot of mana is wolfbriar elemental. Iv seen a mono green deck make easly over 30 tokens with him.

I haven't looked into that one yet. You could make quite an army with some big mana. I would be concerned with haste, because if I have 30 mana, I want to be winning that turn or risk the board wipe. I can't flash it in on the end step with Chord of Calling like I can with Avenger of Zendikar. However, it's always good to have some mana sink options.

OP Updated
+Tireless Tracker
+Howling Mine
-Garruk Wildspeaker
-Squirrel Nest

I wanted to have more options for card draw in my opening hand, since I need to refill once I dump it with Azusa. I debated on Howling Mine vs. Temple Bell, since I do not get an extra card with Howling Mine upon play, but I will see how it goes. I didn't like the Squirrel Nest combo so it got the axe. Garruk is always a good card in green, but I needed a slot. I could see him making a return, since he is one of my favourite PWs.

I don't think EMN brought a considerable amount for his particular deck, but I have things I may try:

• New'mrakul could be fun, because I could easily hard cast it for full price. It would replace Blightsteel as a dumb beater just so I could play with the new toy.
• Eldritch Evolution looks like it needs to be in here. It begs the question on why I'm not playing Natural Order too. However, most of my non-green target have cast triggers, so who knows. I will be adding to plenty of decks, so it is getting a try here.
• Geier Reach Sanitarium - I can draw cards, I like doing that. If I'm stacking my top deck with Top or Library, that could be useful.
• Decimator of the Provinces - I'm already running Craterhoof, so I'm not sure where I could slot this.
• Splendid Reclamation - Love the card, but not for this deck. I do run off-color fetches, but it is a total corner case. I would rather just get a blown up Gaea's Cradle back with Eternal Witness or the like.