MTG Salvation

Here is a promising prototype from me that is suprisingly explosive.

It's like Simic Devotion Elementals Combo and a very strange one, too. Risen Reef into Master of Waves get you Lands direct on the battlefield or nonlands in the hand , that you can re-invest with a bit luck in a copy of Master of Waves in the same turn. 10 damage isn't unusal with Omnath, Locus of the Roil at this moment, and after this you can copy Omnath for the next 10 damage.

You can copy Risen Reef that is at minimum 2 cards that is nice in the early game, that is still value itself.

With the devotion Wistful Selkie is the glue of this deck, and make the devotion part working.
The best of all, even you can't combo of, multiple Master of Waves kills your opponent, too.

My goldfishing test lead to a turn 4 win very often. Not bad at all and nearly every card replacing itself, so most of the time you don't run out of gas.
Beware if you have mutiple Risen Reefs out und you play Master of Waves - for example: 4 Reefs (copys count, too) into Master of Waves that make 5 blue elementals are 20(!)cards.



Before you play this deck just get a feeling for this deck and make a goldfish test. for example here: ( http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/elementals-devotion/ press "playtesting" , have fun )

about the Sideboard, some humble thoughts:
Veil of Summer: is set to protect your combo and again draw a card
Repudiate / Replicate : just a sort of counter for example to disabled the bounce effect of Thing in the Ice or that from a Planeswalker
Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer: Not sure. She can doing a big 4/4 flying Elemental.
Incandescent Soulstoke: It's a Lord, that let survive Elementals from the Wave. did thoughts about Creeping Trailblazer but thats too much i think and push only the attack. Maybe Murkfiend Liege or Leyline of Vitality.

Time for Entertainment

Mono Green Wakeroot Devotion Combo by Meryn
https://youtu.be/uFPQZCuxexo
Decklist: https://decks.tcgplayer.com/magic/freeform/meryn/wakeroot-devotion-combo/1356524?utm_source=merynmtg&utm_medium=merynmtg&utm_term=&utm_content=magic&utm_campaign=affiliate

Infinite Mana: Wakeroot Elemental + Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx + " 6x G on board "

Very Nice, that all all Walls and Wiskful let you draw a card (11 cards in sum)

Magus of the Candelabra + Unbound Flourishing , there is an amazing synergy. The untap ability is going on the stack as a copy. It does mean you can untap Nykthos twice! Like the same as with the Wilderness Reclamation in the End Step.
https://youtu.be/aHqy9DLNs6o?t=994 (sadly, Seth misses multi-untapping Nykthos with Magus )

The reason i reqoute my old posting, skip the qoute

Quote from GarfieldKlon »

I'm just doing a quick take about Unbound Flourishing. It's all about X, but it isn't finished or tested.

"X-Factor Devotion V.0,5"Magic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
//Main 4 Arbor Elf 1 Craterhoof Behemoth 4 Hydroid Krasis 3 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner 4 Kiora, Master of the Depths 3 Llanowar Tribe 2 Nissa, Steward of Elements 4 Rosheen Meanderer 4 Summoner's Pact 4 Unbound Flourishing 4 Utopia Sprawl 3 Walking Ballista	//Lands 3 Breeding Pool 5 Forest 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 1 Waterlogged Grove 3 Wooded Foothills

Why only Kiora's and not even one Garruk? Because the Kiora can untap creature's. The biggest benefit of this is Llanowar Tribe and Rosheen Meanderer. This Deck is full of X creatures. This Deck ramp very hard even without Nykthos.
Card Draws can you get about the 2 Kiora's and Hydroid Krasis. The Behemoth is maybe unnecessary.

And a hint about Polukranos, World Eater. You can't double the X effect with Polukranos, because Monstrosity works only once.

Some other cards in my Mind

DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
//Maybeboard 1 Altered Ego 1 Biomass Mutation 1 Courser of Kruphix 1 Finale of Devastation 1 Finale of Revelation 1 Gelatinous Genesis 1 Kiora's Follower

I'm not sure, but i think someone picked this little stupid list, and build something more amazing on based of this.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/against-the-odds-unbound-wealth-modern-magic-online

A green Devotion list in against the Odds, Ooook, but the comments sayed, that this Episode is one of the best in the series.
So enjoy the show!

Modern is changing from a Turn 4 Format to an a 3-3.5 Format. To Speed up our builds it is necessary to be competiv. I'm really not fan about Chancellor of the Tangle but i think we need this guy to go faster like never before. The big downside is, that the risk to fizzle increased.

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The Leyline build is very unique way to do this. My advise is to build it more explosive. Elvish Reclaimer tp search Nykthos (great with one or more Leyline on board) and Burning-Tree Emissary . Or you build it as a part to a combo like the build above this posting.
@CurdBro
Nice Combo with Elder of Laurels by the way .

I got her in my list

I'm just doing a quick take about Unbound Flourishing. It's all about X, but it isn't finished or tested.



Why only Kiora's and not even one Garruk? Because the Kiora can untap creature's. The biggest benefit of this is Llanowar Tribe and Rosheen Meanderer. This Deck is full of X creatures. This Deck ramp very hard even without Nykthos.
Card Draws can you get about the 2 Kiora's and Hydroid Krasis. The Behemoth is maybe unnecessary.

And a hint about Polukranos, World Eater. You can't double the X effect with Polukranos, because Monstrosity works only once.

Some other cards in my Mind

Quote from Thorshammer813 »

New leyline certainly needs a critical mass of one drop dorks.

Something like Tokenproducers in combination with
Cryptolith Rite and Leyline of Abundance? supportet with Song of Freyalise ? Maybe Sheanigans with Animation Module + Metallic Mimic as "Flesh" Producers or the good old SwordCopter combination. Zendikar Nissa (Plants and +1/+1 Counters) and Rishkar, Peema Renegade. And this brew idea need many manasinks
The setup is very dificult and fairly easy to disrupt, but imho this the way to break the green Leyline. Maybe there are better ideas that i posted here.

@Gruul Me Harder
Thanks
. I edited my posting. Luckily it was only sheanigans.

Finale of Devastation is basically a Chord of Calling. For one less G you lose Convoke and Instantspeed, that is very hard. On the other hand you got the x=10 text, that is imho more like a bonus AND you can optional tutor from the graveyard that is pretty good if you really need yout puzzle piece.
Like Chord is Devastation a card for a (nongreen)Toolbox/Combo Deck. For a classic Devotion Deck , Summoner's Pact and Primal Command are sligtly better.

...until someone build something complete different.

Maybe with a heavy untap Deck (all sorts of Kiora cards) with Rosheen Meanderer and big load of X cards. After every new idea you can evaluate which Tutor is the best for your concept.

Rule Edit:Hmmm.....56 hasty DEATHTOUCH BEES damage - Maybe (Hornet Queen itself is a 2/2)


My point was, if you can cast a 12 ManaSorcery it doesn't matter if you cast Craterhoof or the Hornet Queen, but the Queen has far more style.

Rule Edit:
I read very often Finale of Devastation in combination with Craterhoof Behemoth. I think the better choice in this case is Hornet Queen. Ok, X=10 the CMC doesn't matter, but 5 fliers with +10/+10 with haste and you didn't need other creatures for the Hoof effect is a good argument. With a second thought, the game is over if you can cast it. Edit: no matter which finisher you choose

I really like the toolbox style with the Finale and the Neoform together. Finally no color retrictions and with both in your deck you can play even cards you didn't got the lands.
The possibilities are overwhelming. Here a tip with Neoform: Skaab Ruinator. A flying 5/6 is not a joke and is something like a flying Tarmogoyf (and unbounceable from TitI because Skaab is a Horror) or any other Silberbullets or more common threats like Knight of the Reliquary.
With those Tutors you can playing Phyrexian Obliterator in a simic colored deck. It's an extreme example of course, but hopefully, it show how powerful those new cards are. Imho Rendroc is 100% right about the mega potential.

Green had some cards with "reveal the top card of your Library" in combination Tamiyo, Colllector of Tales and/or Nissa, Steward of Elements you can flood the board. Ok, these would be not fast enough to be T1, but i will brew a copy Deck with the new Tamiyo.

@Fulgence/Noname
Write a Mod-(team) about your account . Maybe in this forum is a thread for those cases.

the Wording for two creatures is more like "[..]up to 2 creatures" . The and/or means only you can search both graveyard and library.

@ForsakenGamers
A nice classic Devotion list. I prefer Primal Command for interaction/disruption. I'm running 6 tutor's (4x Pact , 2x Command)
The reason was mention here only 2 days ago

@Gruulmeharder: Couldn't agree more on the interaction part. We are slower than the best linear decks in modern, that means we have to pack some sort of interaction to buy us the extra time we need to set up.
Primal Command had pretty much exactly this purpose, buying us another turn against many decks in the format.

For myself i'm looking for simic coloured cards for this form of interaction.

My guess that Kiora is good in Devotion is nothing special any more

Kiora sliding into in Mono-Green Devotion strategies feauring Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx to accelerate on mana.

Source: https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2019/04/war-of-the-spark-early-modern-contenders/

Good Work with the Sideboard. That is a real nice Artifact Toolbox.

You got your Combo, but the most important Piece had only 2 Copys. +2 Karn, or at least 3 at minimum. With the white Splash an additional option is Glittering Wish.
Imho an Auto-Addin with W in Devotion is Knight of the Reliquary. Cheating in a Nykthos or a second one to get more Mana is really "finish the Game"

Did i make mistake at reading? With Karn's +1 you can oppponents Land Bomb every round (P/T will be 0) or +1 on himfelf did him to a 4/4. That's too absurd good.