Here is the list I keep saying I will post. It is outdated, but it got me to a few 3-1's in locals against some decent players. I beat Jund at least once an event, and also played Whirza at each event only dropping a couple of games but no matches.
After the first two weeks, the Omens became Mwonvuli Acid-Moss. After the bannings and unbannings, one relic became a Field of the Dead with the mana base changed accordingly replacing one cinder glade with a Sheltered Thicket and adding snow basics, and the other relic became an Hour of Promise which I have previously played to great effect in grindier metas. The sideboard also changed. I replaced Courser with Weather the Storm, one anger became another sphere, another anger became a Sweltering Suns, the thrun became a relic because I realized he was never coming in anymore and I do like relic still as a fifteenth sideboard card while I am trying to make decisions. It never hurts to have some grave hate and at worst it can be a redraw. For this weekend, I am changing one natures claim to a Reclamation Sage and may in the future change the other to a Collector Ouphe but I am waiting on those to come in the mail. I am also strongly considering cutting a baloth and the inferno titan for Veil of Summer which is also coming in the mail. I will be doing a lot of testing against storm soon and want to see how it and damping sphere affect the matchup.
The main strengths of this list for me have really been the unconditional removal. Instead of racing Whirza and praying they can't stop me or gain enough life to live long enough to combo me, I am able to take the control position and often hold up hard removal for one or more pieces of their combo in response to the last piece being cast. This has meant I have won every match I have played against them (4) and only dropped, iirc, 2 games. Additionally, it has made Jund's only hope of beating us (T1 Discard, T2 goyf, T3 Lili) not much of a plan when I can always kill their goyf with any removal spell (when bolt almost never will) and can sometimes deal with their planeswalkers that are out of bolt range with abrupt decay. As for other matchups, my only complaint is that sometimes you do want a maindeck sweeper against some aggro decks, but often going hard into the ramp plan and taking out a few key creatures with push and decay deal with it anyway. As it is, go wide creature decks aren't as common in the store where I am playing now. Lots of midrange, combo, and control.
Edit: I have made some more updates to the primer, adding new cards to the flex slot choices such as HoP, and cleaning up the suggested manabase section. Please give it a look and let me know if you have recommendations.
Thanks for the extensive reply. I was thinking that an alternate win condition (or lock, however you wanna see it) in Madcap/Emperion was a neat idea, especially since the opportunity cost of 5 cards is not too high. Especially right now with Burn on the rise, Emperion on turn 3 feels pretty solid, especially in game 1, same thing with Mono R Prowess and Izzet Blitz. In the case of more UWx and GBx in the meta, Acid-Moss is the better choice for sure, although I can see the benefit of the package postboard.
I can easily adjust the mana base, play Windswept Heath or Verdant Catacombs instead of the Bloodstained Mires, I swap a Forest for an Overgrown Tomb. Not sure if one should really run a basic Swamp, having it in the starting hand feels really awkward, hitting Blood Moon with Decay/Trophy sounds really nice though. Field of the Dead is something I want to include as well, not sure in what slot to be honest. Is the 4th Valakut needed? Drawing them in doubles or triples is not great, them coming into play tapped isn't either, this is why I have opted for 3 instead of the full 4 copies, especially since we have 4 Titans and 4 Scapeshifts to find them apart from drawing them naturally.
I’m not a big fan of the madcap emperion thing. But if you think itll work for you in your meta give it a shot and report back. I'd love to hear your results.
As for the basic swamp, if you are playing 0 red cards maindeck like me it’s pretty great. The cards I hate most in my deck, honestly, are the basic mountains. An opening hand with a swamp is usually fine as long as I have one green source. But a hand with basic mountains is almost like a hand with wastes. They only cast stuff from the board, so other than setting up for valakut they are awful. And with 6 maindeck black cards, being able to get swamp from SFT or Steve is important.
That all being said, the mana in the deck feels great. And with no reason to search mountains I never find myself running out of them with 13 when RG really wants 14
with dryad of the ilysian grove scapeshifts got nice boost in power. finalyl have a prismatic omen ability that does something relevant inaddition to being prismatic omen.
a lot of titan decks in the meta are using ilysian to power out a single or two valakuts in there deck which is also packing other land combos.
I played some games keep the deck purely green red and i was performing better than the other titan decks cause i can go straight for peoples faces, instead of stacking lands for a massive primeval titan attack.
how are you guys liking Dryad???
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4 Scapeshift
4 Primeval Titans
2 Summoner's Pact
Ramp [12]
4 Search for Tomorrow
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Farseek
Removal [6]
4 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay
Flex Slots [5]
3 Prismatic Omen
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Stomping Ground
4 Cinder Glade
5 Mountain
1 Blood Crypt
2 Forest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Swamp
2 Nature's Claim
1 Damping Sphere
2 Terminate
2 Courser of Kruphix
3 Anger of the Gods
3 Obstinate Baloth
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Inferno Titan
After the first two weeks, the Omens became Mwonvuli Acid-Moss. After the bannings and unbannings, one relic became a Field of the Dead with the mana base changed accordingly replacing one cinder glade with a Sheltered Thicket and adding snow basics, and the other relic became an Hour of Promise which I have previously played to great effect in grindier metas. The sideboard also changed. I replaced Courser with Weather the Storm, one anger became another sphere, another anger became a Sweltering Suns, the thrun became a relic because I realized he was never coming in anymore and I do like relic still as a fifteenth sideboard card while I am trying to make decisions. It never hurts to have some grave hate and at worst it can be a redraw. For this weekend, I am changing one natures claim to a Reclamation Sage and may in the future change the other to a Collector Ouphe but I am waiting on those to come in the mail. I am also strongly considering cutting a baloth and the inferno titan for Veil of Summer which is also coming in the mail. I will be doing a lot of testing against storm soon and want to see how it and damping sphere affect the matchup.
The main strengths of this list for me have really been the unconditional removal. Instead of racing Whirza and praying they can't stop me or gain enough life to live long enough to combo me, I am able to take the control position and often hold up hard removal for one or more pieces of their combo in response to the last piece being cast. This has meant I have won every match I have played against them (4) and only dropped, iirc, 2 games. Additionally, it has made Jund's only hope of beating us (T1 Discard, T2 goyf, T3 Lili) not much of a plan when I can always kill their goyf with any removal spell (when bolt almost never will) and can sometimes deal with their planeswalkers that are out of bolt range with abrupt decay. As for other matchups, my only complaint is that sometimes you do want a maindeck sweeper against some aggro decks, but often going hard into the ramp plan and taking out a few key creatures with push and decay deal with it anyway. As it is, go wide creature decks aren't as common in the store where I am playing now. Lots of midrange, combo, and control.
Edit: I have made some more updates to the primer, adding new cards to the flex slot choices such as HoP, and cleaning up the suggested manabase section. Please give it a look and let me know if you have recommendations.
Marath, Will of the Wild Tokens!! / Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund Dragons! / Muzzio, Visionary Architect / Brago, King Eternal / Daretti, Scrap Savant / Narset, Enlightened Master / Alesha, Who Smiles at Death / Bruna, Light of Alabaster / Marchesa, the Black Rose / Iroas, God of Victory / Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury / Omnath, Locus of rage / Titania, Protector of Argoth / Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Modern
Elves / Titanshift / Merfolk
I can easily adjust the mana base, play Windswept Heath or Verdant Catacombs instead of the Bloodstained Mires, I swap a Forest for an Overgrown Tomb. Not sure if one should really run a basic Swamp, having it in the starting hand feels really awkward, hitting Blood Moon with Decay/Trophy sounds really nice though. Field of the Dead is something I want to include as well, not sure in what slot to be honest. Is the 4th Valakut needed? Drawing them in doubles or triples is not great, them coming into play tapped isn't either, this is why I have opted for 3 instead of the full 4 copies, especially since we have 4 Titans and 4 Scapeshifts to find them apart from drawing them naturally.
As for the basic swamp, if you are playing 0 red cards maindeck like me it’s pretty great. The cards I hate most in my deck, honestly, are the basic mountains. An opening hand with a swamp is usually fine as long as I have one green source. But a hand with basic mountains is almost like a hand with wastes. They only cast stuff from the board, so other than setting up for valakut they are awful. And with 6 maindeck black cards, being able to get swamp from SFT or Steve is important.
That all being said, the mana in the deck feels great. And with no reason to search mountains I never find myself running out of them with 13 when RG really wants 14
Marath, Will of the Wild Tokens!! / Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund Dragons! / Muzzio, Visionary Architect / Brago, King Eternal / Daretti, Scrap Savant / Narset, Enlightened Master / Alesha, Who Smiles at Death / Bruna, Light of Alabaster / Marchesa, the Black Rose / Iroas, God of Victory / Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury / Omnath, Locus of rage / Titania, Protector of Argoth / Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Modern
Elves / Titanshift / Merfolk
with dryad of the ilysian grove scapeshifts got nice boost in power. finalyl have a prismatic omen ability that does something relevant inaddition to being prismatic omen.
a lot of titan decks in the meta are using ilysian to power out a single or two valakuts in there deck which is also packing other land combos.
I played some games keep the deck purely green red and i was performing better than the other titan decks cause i can go straight for peoples faces, instead of stacking lands for a massive primeval titan attack.
how are you guys liking Dryad???