Winota - Assemble the Humans
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:27 pm
Well, that was quick. Winota, Joiner of Forces got spoiled today and I got to work on it more or less right away. I started out by filtering through all the humans and my starting point was like 60 humans and from there I shaved it down to where it is now which is about 20 humans. I go a little bug eyed trying to do probability even when trying to use an app for that but pulling 6 cards deep for a 20/99 per card seems like fairly decent chances to get a single card from.
Once I got my humans figured out I started looking for 3 or less mana non humans which I found a few I liked but really not that many. I dug into some one shot token production from there and found a lot more things to my liking. So, I guess I am sort of on the polymorph token style of a build with the only oddity being that my payoffs need to be high in number.
I last second threw in a shuffle eldrazi because honestly it seems like I maybe want some means of shuffling my grave back in and I am not a fan of most of the crappy little baubles that do stuff like that.
I guess this is what I would call the quick and dirty.
CONSIDERATIONS:
Once I got my humans figured out I started looking for 3 or less mana non humans which I found a few I liked but really not that many. I dug into some one shot token production from there and found a lot more things to my liking. So, I guess I am sort of on the polymorph token style of a build with the only oddity being that my payoffs need to be high in number.
I last second threw in a shuffle eldrazi because honestly it seems like I maybe want some means of shuffling my grave back in and I am not a fan of most of the crappy little baubles that do stuff like that.
I guess this is what I would call the quick and dirty.
Decklist
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CONSIDERATIONS:
- Warstorm Surge - I guess my concern is that its big, slow, and a big target. Ideally if I have my commander + some token stuff setup I could drop it and flip a bunch of humans into play. I just find this card to be slow and die a lot.
- Purphoros, God of the Forge - Obviously with some of the token / polymorph kinda stuff he could be nice. He is high on my get this guy in here list. My only concern is how many elements already go into this deck in getting the commander out, getting some non humans, getting to combat and not losing everything to blockers or wraths.
- Benalish Marshal / Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon" - I like that they are humans with unconditional buffs. That said, I don't know how much I value +1/+1 in general. You usually have to go fairly wide before these anthems start looking good. I have a number of humans that enter and make 2-3 tokens for instance and I would generally say I would want like 5 other bodies being buffed before I generally find them to be just like, ok.