Aeve - Ooze Storm
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2023 6:33 pm
This list might seem straightforward just being a storm deck but there is a lot of questions to ask yourself such as playing a mana dork early for ramp vs keeping it in hand for storm count. I really like the puzzle that is both piloting and adjusting the decklist for this one as its a really cool deck. I had been looking at it for a while and finally when I saw Tribute to the World Tree come out I immediately jumped back to this idea as something that could possibly play it with.
Ultimately it is really just a beatdown tempo style of deck but playing storm in mono green puts a lot of interesting deckbuilding constraints in that are a little weird for mono green. It does want to race its opponents as it has a weak interaction to flyers and combo but I enjoy having decks with an identity to them so thats fine with me.
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Biogenic Ooze - This is probably one of the better ooze options out there and I like that it has the option of dumping mana to go wide with oozes.
Ulvenwald Tracker - Its cheap and gives me some interaction. The problem is how much ramp and draw I really need to make things function all the things that don't ramp or draw take up some space. Its possible though that I still want this functionality though but I struggle with lack of haste in the deck for an effect like this paired with the natural response to my storm stuff is to sweep.
Erratic Portal - Could run it to bounce my commander out and its still technically disruption to opponents making them keep mana up in case.
Gaea's Cradle / Growing Rites of Itlimoc - I own these, I just don't love playing them and I also don't know that they help me as much before I get set up. My creature count isn't super high and these cards seem like they do more after I cast my commander but could be a liability in the turn I go to cast them with my creature counts.
Altar of Dementia - I do need some means of resetting my commander and I like that this one doesn't risk some annoying infinite. Its a cheap sac outlet though and it could also be a wincon and it could make a control player's life harder.
Protean Hulk - with adding more sac outlets on top of having some really sweet low curve creatures in the deck if I could sac him it would make for a really nice setup option. He is expensive to cast and dependent on having enough sac but its something to think about.
Vedalken Orrery - I could set up to play out my storm on someone else's turn for increased storm count. The downside with this plan being this is a somewhat expensive card to cast and it has a VERY large target on its face.