Rumpy5897 wrote: ↑3 years ago
The Law of Edric states that the cheaper you can get away with making your pokers, the better. If flying is enough to connect within your group then cool. I've got a guy in my group that's brewing
Toski (pretty easy Kaldheim include for you too), and another form of one-drop evasion is
landwalk. Don't think you're quite desperate enough to run one-drop deathtouchers and hope your foes won't take the unprofitable trades, but mono green's a bit desperate for evasive weenies
Oh yeah, I'm all over that squirrel's nuts.
There's a few two drops I'd like to get but you're bringing up a good point over Landwalk evasion. Forests, Swamps and Islands are probably pretty easy to qualify for, which means I could even use the classic
River Boa. I think
Dryad Sophisticate probably punches above her weight in this deck. Unfortunately, a lot of these 10+ year old un/commons are hard to find in the time of Covid. Hell, I've even been eyeing
Yellow Scarves Cavalry and that's been impossible to find.
Edit: With my Landwalk research, I immediately fell in love with
Bayou Dragonfly - what a garbage card that this deck can abuse. Another fun contender is OG
Mirri, Cat Warrior. The idiot brewer in me saw
Magnigoth Treefolk and thought of adding
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth to the deck to have all the Landwalks.
And yes, I am desperately trying to find a
Soltari Foot Soldier.
Onto changes:
There's plenty of Enchantments and Artifacts that get cast but barring particular match-ups, Sorceries and Instants are relatively rare. This makes Arasta pretty inconsistent. Sure, her token spew is valuable but Krenko's is more proven. Also, by pooping out 1/1 Goblins, they make for perfect
Skullclamp fodder.
I was looking for a bit more draw and bit more life gain, so I'm trying out Courser. God-Eternal Oketra costs too much. I'm going for something like Marchesa where I need incredibly efficient bodies. Oketra asked for cast triggers and I couldn't really abuse her, getting out two or three cast triggers each turn.
While it is
difficult to crackback the kitty, people tend to pull out all of the stops for cards like Luminarch Ascension or Nissa, Vital Force. If I was less of a greedy idiot, I would hold these until the right moment and pull way ahead. Unfortunately, there's a reason why part of my deckbuilding is engineering against my own stupidity. I've put in Iroas as a way to give my dudes more Evasion, not care about being blocked so I can be more aggressive and Iroas is a Creature sometimes for turning sideways. Guardian Project is just solid draw, especially since the deck consistently casts one or two Creatures a turn - making sure I'm always replacing my critters.
