Ain't easy being green

Casual Midrange Ramp

Phil73805

Creature (18)

• 4x Deus of Calamity
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Polukranos, World Eater
• 2x Primordial Hydra

Planeswalker (4)

• 4x Garruk Wildspeaker

Land (22)

• 10x Forest
• 4x Kazandu Refuge
• 8x Mountain

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Fires of Yavimaya

Instant (12)

• 4x Beast Within
• 4x Brimstone Volley
• 4x Searing Spear

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This deck is my first effort at deck building after a recent return to Magic. I was helped in its construction by a couple of friends who have been playing for many years.

The problem is this, it doesn't really work. Despite many changes and refinements and almost regardless of the matchup I get my butt handed to me. One of my friends actually bought an especially weak (mono blue, based on a deck in Duels of the Planeswalkers with the more powerful cards replaced with weaker ones) deck to play against mine. Admittedly I managed 2 wins and a couple of very close losses out of about 5 games.

I think my group have gotten too close to see the flaws in the deck and so I ask you all, what's wrong with it? Are there any cards you would swap out and what would you swap them for?

The basic premise of the deck is one of mana acceleration to bring out big creatures who then proceed to batter the opponent. The red is in there to add some direct damage spells to remove chump blockers and troublesome force multipliers along with Fire of Yavimaya to speed up the deck. Garruk Wildspeaker seemed like a no brainer (a generous gift from one of the aforementioned friends) though I have to say he almost always gets himself killed before using his big power because I don't have the creatures necessary to block for him. Four Kazandu Refuge to ensure I don't get starved of any one colour and lastly, Beast Within to deal with flyers to which I am otherwise horribly vulnerable.

That's the idea anyway. What say you?

Really could use the help so please chime in.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 4 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G