This deck is very simple. It uses the combination of Devoted Druid + Quillspike
to do infinite damage to your opponent. Once Both cards are in play and no longer have summoning sickness, you tap Devoted Druid for a mana, and then untap it using its ability. You then use
Quillspike
's ability, and give it +3/+3. You do this as many times as you feel as necessary, and then swing for damage. If your opponent is insistent on blocking, you can always use Rite of Consumption to stop that. The other cards are pretty much just to fill the space.
Card Breakdown
Wasteland Viper is for blocking anything early game. It's a pretty good chump blocker.
Ambush Viper
is for protecting the combo if your opponent attacks, and Vampire Nighthawk makes an excellent late-game heavy hitter, if it comes to that. Vines of Vastwood is also useful for keeping the battlefield in check, and can be used as a last line of defense against a blue deck.
Primal Rage
is great for getting past token decks. Wall of Blood is for the secondary combo. I'll get to that at the bottom. Elves of Deep Shadow and Joraga Treespeaker are both present to help with the mana curve, even though it's not high at all. If turn one you can play Joraga Treespeaker, and turn two a second forest, you can bump Joraga Treespeaker up to level one and get your mana back. Finally,Shred Memory and Dimir Machinations are tutors using the transmute feature, which can be used to grab Devoted Druid or
Quillspike
.
Sideboard
The sideboard is mostly answers to problems I can foresee. I tried to keep them mostly budget as well, so I'm sure there are better cards. Naturalize is the answer to Pithing Needle, which this deck is very vulnerable to. It can also be used to stop Tron decks if played correctly. Dragon's Claw is to protect yourself from burn decks, which can crush your combo very quickly. If you can survive the initial 3 turns of a burn matchup, you will usually win. Golgari Charm is just an "incase" card. It can be used for a few situations.
Avatar of Might
is just in case you encounter someone who already knows your deck, and tries to get rid of the combo. You'll have no endgame. This is the perfect card for that, especially if they play tokens. This card will cost less, and still have trample when it hits the board. The other cards (Doom Blade, Murder and
Plummet
) are all for killing different creatures that could present a problem. Use with discretion.
Turn 3 Win
Turn 1: Forest, Joraga Treespeaker
Turn 2: Forest, Level up Joraga Treespeaker, tap Joraga Treespeaker for , Devoted Druid
Turn 3: Swamp, use Joraga Treespeaker and a Forest to cast
Quillspike
, infinite combo Devoted Druid + Quillspike
and then use a Swamp and a Forest to cast Rite of Consumption and sac
Quillspike
. If Someone tries to stop you (i.e. killing a piece of the combo), you have enough mana for a green spell if you end with Devoted Druid tapped. I suggest Ranger's Guile. You can also win on turn 4 if you can't get Joraga Treespeaker out in time. If you do have the combo on turn 4, you can replace Rite of Consumption with
Primal Rage
. Pretty simple, really.
Alternate Combo
If you're not feeling the turn 3 kill combo, there is an alternative. If you can get out Rite of Consumption
+
Wall of Blood
, then you can hit for your life -1. As long as you have more life than them, you're golden.
Upgrading this Deck
If I may say so myself, this is a pretty great budget deck, and there isn't that much you can do to upgrade it. I would like to change the tutors Dimir Machinations and Shred Memory. It would be much better if they were replaced with Collected Company, but it's a little pricy. Also pricy, but possibly worth it, would be replacing two Forests and two Swamps for four Overgrown Tombs, but that can run you almost the same as the maindeck itself. You can also replace Doom Blade in the side board with Go for the Throat, and
Primal Rage
with Rancor. If you want to add any of these to your deck, go for it!
It's not all the way done, and I need suggestions, but I want to keep it under $50. Thank you to lil_cheez, Ixidron, Perfidy and RamblinMan for their help!
