This card is legal and that makes me happy. This combo is fragile but I don't care. A couple games I've done 70 damage turn 3 so it's funny at the very least.
The Goal? Abuse the mana generation of Nettle Sentinels and Heritage Druid (and if you're a baller Joraga Treespeaker fully leveled makes Nettle Sentinels dumb...and you'll have the mana hopefully with all these extra mana dorks). Then what do you do with it? Well I want to abuse the search capability of Green Sun's Zenith and Weird Harvest and they're both X spells so it seems as good a place as any to use all that mana you're generating. Once you have an active Heritage druid Nettle Sentinel the best target is to weird harvest for one or two 1 mana guys and an Eternal Witness (unless you already have the other weird harvest in your hand). Net mana when you cast your one mana dorks then get back the weird harvest with witness and cast it again for four. Go get a regal force the rest of your nettle sentinels and depending on how much mana you have left your Patron of the Orochi. Next cast the one mana guys until you've ramped enough mana to get to the Regal Force. Then draw cards for each creature you control (often 7 cards). Hopefully you'll draw into some more one mana guys which lets you ramp into Patron of the Orochi. But even if you just draw a green suns zenith or weird harvest you can keep the party going.
If you can't keep going then you'll just have to be satisfied with all those creatures on the board and swing the next turn. If not! then I have a creature based way to keep going. Sometimes I'll be generating upwards of 20 mana so casting a patron of the orochi isn't hard. What's next? Exile two Simian Spirit guides and cast Goblin Bushwhacker. Give all your guys haste. Tap the Patron of the Orochi to untap all your creatures and lands then swing!
Fragile? You betcha. I don't tend to build combo decks with caution. Will it win games? Probably. Will it lose? For sure. But it's the kind of deck I build at the very least
Notes:
Tangleroot: Tried this but it's too slow. The turn I want to cast Tangleroot it's all I can do. Instead I want to be leveling up Joraga Treespeaker or Green Sun's Zenithing for Nettle Sentinel/Heritage Druid.
Dryad Arbor: Eh techy sure but most of the time I'm tired of seeing it and wishing it was either a basic land because of elvish pioneer or an elf for heritage druid. In other words it just doesn't have haste and doesn't produce the mana I need it to.
Chord of Calling: Convoke is great! Except when your dudes are already producing a lot of mana. Weird harvest may give your opponent some creatures in their hand, and they may be able to cast them with loads of cloudposts in play, but chances are you'll dump your hand before they'll have a chance to Emrakul you.
Emrakul: Speaking of >_> Well the truth is you COULD just cast Emrakul and win the game. In fact it's probably the better idea. Certainly commits less cards to the combo (you don't have to use patron of the orochi simian spirit guides or goblin bushwhacker). The deck is really cheap right now because none of these cards are too expensive. But there's always the option of replacing those 5 cards with elvish visionaries and an emrakul. Be my guest!
Elvish Visonary: Too slow? Eh maybe. The reason I don't like this is because it costs 2! I know that seems silly but in this deck, once you've played it, it doesn't do enough to cost that much. Trust me it sounds ludicrous to even type that but it's turning out to be true.
Elvish Archdruid: What could be better than adding mana to your pool? Adding 1 for each creature you control! I know it's a great card and can boost your creatures so you need less of them to kill the opponent but it costs 3 and I really needed to focus the cost down to 1.
It's not meant to be terribly competitive obviously. It's an all or nothing strategy that probably won't stand up to the amount of removal, graveyard hate, and fast infect/cloudpost decks in the format. So take the deck with a grain of salt and no flames please. Try it out
This deck looks crazy cool. I wouldn't have ever thought of something like that.
If you can do all of that on turn 3, why not run some black, and / or red in the deck. You could run mind shatter to eff up your opponent's hand. Or Plow under to seal the deal?
More eternal witness?
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This deck looks crazy cool. I wouldn't have ever thought of something like that.
If you can do all of that on turn 3, why not run some black, and / or red in the deck. You could run mind shatter to eff up your opponent's hand. Or Plow under to seal the deal?
More eternal witness?
Running X Spells in this deck means one thing: Search for creatures to continue generating mana. If you use the X to mind shatter them then you're not winning that turn like you should be.
there's no room for more eternal witness and you should only need the one. But instead of plow i might consider Primal Command because it tutors up a creature and can be like a time walk which is what I need in this deck. It's just not searchable itself and Emrakul is (patron/etc)
We'll see. I guess I could run Rootrunner but again it just doesn't help you win.
And Manamorphose/Spirit Guides. Don't forget that when I want to win I can weird harvest for two spirit guides and a goblin bushwhacker. I can't tutor up the manamorphose.
Summoner's Pact is interesting because it lets me untap the nettle sentinels for free and tutors up a creature so it's essentially a black lotus + 2 mana.
The theory for this deck could work with tangleroot + A lot of 0 cost creatues and affinity creatures. (Weird harvest for 4 memnite and frogmites and eternal witness I guess)
Here's the deck:
21 Forest
Creatures
4 Elvish Pioneer
4 Arbor Elf
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
1 Patron of the Orochi
1 Eternal Witness
1 Regal Force
1 Goblin Bushwhacker
3 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Weird Harvest
4 Green Sun's Zenith
The Goal? Abuse the mana generation of Nettle Sentinels and Heritage Druid (and if you're a baller Joraga Treespeaker fully leveled makes Nettle Sentinels dumb...and you'll have the mana hopefully with all these extra mana dorks). Then what do you do with it? Well I want to abuse the search capability of Green Sun's Zenith and Weird Harvest and they're both X spells so it seems as good a place as any to use all that mana you're generating. Once you have an active Heritage druid Nettle Sentinel the best target is to weird harvest for one or two 1 mana guys and an Eternal Witness (unless you already have the other weird harvest in your hand). Net mana when you cast your one mana dorks then get back the weird harvest with witness and cast it again for four. Go get a regal force the rest of your nettle sentinels and depending on how much mana you have left your Patron of the Orochi. Next cast the one mana guys until you've ramped enough mana to get to the Regal Force. Then draw cards for each creature you control (often 7 cards). Hopefully you'll draw into some more one mana guys which lets you ramp into Patron of the Orochi. But even if you just draw a green suns zenith or weird harvest you can keep the party going.
If you can't keep going then you'll just have to be satisfied with all those creatures on the board and swing the next turn. If not! then I have a creature based way to keep going. Sometimes I'll be generating upwards of 20 mana so casting a patron of the orochi isn't hard. What's next? Exile two Simian Spirit guides and cast Goblin Bushwhacker. Give all your guys haste. Tap the Patron of the Orochi to untap all your creatures and lands then swing!
Fragile? You betcha. I don't tend to build combo decks with caution. Will it win games? Probably. Will it lose? For sure. But it's the kind of deck I build at the very least
Notes:
Tangleroot: Tried this but it's too slow. The turn I want to cast Tangleroot it's all I can do. Instead I want to be leveling up Joraga Treespeaker or Green Sun's Zenithing for Nettle Sentinel/Heritage Druid.
Dryad Arbor: Eh techy sure but most of the time I'm tired of seeing it and wishing it was either a basic land because of elvish pioneer or an elf for heritage druid. In other words it just doesn't have haste and doesn't produce the mana I need it to.
Chord of Calling: Convoke is great! Except when your dudes are already producing a lot of mana. Weird harvest may give your opponent some creatures in their hand, and they may be able to cast them with loads of cloudposts in play, but chances are you'll dump your hand before they'll have a chance to Emrakul you.
Emrakul: Speaking of >_> Well the truth is you COULD just cast Emrakul and win the game. In fact it's probably the better idea. Certainly commits less cards to the combo (you don't have to use patron of the orochi simian spirit guides or goblin bushwhacker). The deck is really cheap right now because none of these cards are too expensive. But there's always the option of replacing those 5 cards with elvish visionaries and an emrakul. Be my guest!
Elvish Visonary: Too slow? Eh maybe. The reason I don't like this is because it costs 2! I know that seems silly but in this deck, once you've played it, it doesn't do enough to cost that much. Trust me it sounds ludicrous to even type that but it's turning out to be true.
Elvish Archdruid: What could be better than adding mana to your pool? Adding 1 for each creature you control! I know it's a great card and can boost your creatures so you need less of them to kill the opponent but it costs 3 and I really needed to focus the cost down to 1.
It's not meant to be terribly competitive obviously. It's an all or nothing strategy that probably won't stand up to the amount of removal, graveyard hate, and fast infect/cloudpost decks in the format. So take the deck with a grain of salt and no flames please. Try it out
This deck looks crazy cool. I wouldn't have ever thought of something like that.
If you can do all of that on turn 3, why not run some black, and / or red in the deck. You could run mind shatter to eff up your opponent's hand. Or Plow under to seal the deal?
More eternal witness?
EDH:
Zur, The Enchanter
Modern:
Burn
Legacy:
Cheeri0s
Burn
Yes?
Running X Spells in this deck means one thing: Search for creatures to continue generating mana. If you use the X to mind shatter them then you're not winning that turn like you should be.
there's no room for more eternal witness and you should only need the one. But instead of plow i might consider Primal Command because it tutors up a creature and can be like a time walk which is what I need in this deck. It's just not searchable itself and Emrakul is (patron/etc)
We'll see. I guess I could run Rootrunner but again it just doesn't help you win.
And Manamorphose/Spirit Guides. Don't forget that when I want to win I can weird harvest for two spirit guides and a goblin bushwhacker. I can't tutor up the manamorphose.
Summoner's Pact is interesting because it lets me untap the nettle sentinels for free and tutors up a creature so it's essentially a black lotus + 2 mana.
The theory for this deck could work with tangleroot + A lot of 0 cost creatues and affinity creatures. (Weird harvest for 4 memnite and frogmites and eternal witness I guess)