7ph BUG Lands

Vintage* Loam

ValeMtG

Land (25)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (14)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Primeval Titan
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth

Artifact (4)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Zuran Orb

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Wish
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Gifts Ungiven

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fastbond
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory

Land (4)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (1)

• 1x Krosan Grip

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Australian 7 point Highlander deck. Current points are Strip Mine[++], Wasteland[+], Gifts Ungiven[+], Crop Rotation[+], Fastbond[+] and Green Sun's Zenith[+]. BUG variant of the traditionally GBw Australian Highlander Lands deck 'Gardening Australia'.

Why play blue over white?

Great question, purely a different approach to the same kind of strategy. Blue gives access to Leovold, Emissary of Trest and Tatyova, Benthic Druid, which are powerful enough to make blue worth exploring. Being blue instead of white does lose access to Knight of the Reliquary, as well as many powerful sideboard options.

Why this points spread?

The points spread is, as usual, rather flexible. Strip Mine and Wasteland are big reasons to play the deck, allowing us to punish players for sketchy keeps, greedy fetching decisions, and manabases even more shoddy than our own. With those 3 points tied up, we're left with 4 to play with. Green Sun's Zenith is a 1 point card which enables a lot of our strategies, searching up any creature in our deck. Crop Rotation is one of the most powerful cards in any lands or cradle strategy, which makes it an easy 1 point inclusion. Fastbond is an amazingly powerful card in a lands strategy, enabling Zuran Orb + Crucible of Worlds combos, and is one of my personal favourite cards to play, which makes it well worth the 1 point to include in our 60. This takes us up to 6, which means we have one definite flex slot. At the moment, I'm trialing Gifts Ungiven in this spot. Admittedly, somewhat biased, considering gifts is my favourite card, but the potential to use it as an instant speed entomb for Life from the Loam and any land, Eternal Witness piles using Petrified Field, and many many more. Other considerations for this flex slot are Jace, the Mind Sculptor, which can be ramped out early to take over a game. Sensei's Divining Top, which gives nice card selection and another wincon for your fastbond combo. Force of Will, if a more counter-control variant of the list is necessary for the metagame. There are plenty of cards which could make the cut here, ultimately I believe it's down to preference.

What are these combos you mentioned?

Fastbond lets you play lands at the cost of a life, Zuran Orb lets you sacrifice lands for 2 life, and Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator let you play the sacrificed land from your graveyard, netting you one life, and one mana if the land enters untapped. Repeat ad nausuem, using the mana and landfall triggers to draw cards using Tireless Tracker or Tatyova, Benthic Druid to find Living Wish to search up Walking Ballista. A far more standard combo to win the game is the traditional Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage .

Is this a combo deck?

Not entirely, like a lot of lands strategies, it often plays a fair game as a midrange deck. Well, as fair as a Strip Mine deck can be, anyway.

Why these sideboard cards?

Many of the sideboard options are to play into Living Wish, and make it as powerful as possible. Other sideboard inclusions are graveyard hate which isn't symmetrical, to give us game against reanimator strategies without bricking our own graveyard synergies. Arcane Laboratory should come in against storm or bomberman strategies, should you encounter an opponent who sleeved up Black Lotus. Sylvan Safekeeper could easily be in the main, and probably should, if you find a slot in the main to switch him with.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage
Legality	This deck is Vintage legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 8 Rares 9 - 6 Uncommons 5 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.20
Tokens	Clue, Elemental 5/3 G, Marit Lage
Based on	7ph BUG Lands [BUDGET] ValeMtG HL