Trying to get into standard. Have been playing mostly casual with friends since Theros came out. Looking for some ideas I do have this deck built and am planning on taking it to FNM some time in the next two weeks. The goal of this deck is to get large creatures quickly and barrel through before they get anything on the board.
Turn 1-3:
Elvish Mystic, Burning-Tree Emissary, Sylvan Caryatid, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx are all here to get maximum mana out by turn three.
Turn 4:
Savageborn Hydra, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, and
Mistcutter Hydra
put any one of these out turn 4 using the large mana base hopefully built in turn 1-3. Ruric Thar, the Unbowed has the added bonus of stopping non-creature spells.
Turn 5:
Xenagos, God of Revels double creatures power then Flesh / Blood either direct to player or to a blocking creature to make way for a full attack. This is also why
Fall of the Hammer
is present in the sideboard for heavy creature decks.
Cards that help if game makes it past turn 5:
Polukranos, World Eater cheap and amazing for added damage
Gruul War Chant
+1/+0 and can only be blocked by two or more creatures that's nice come turn 6 or 7 to circumvent defenses.
Nylea, God of the Hunt is in the deck for trample to punch through the last bit of damage to finish the job, and Xenagos, the Reveler is here to build my available mana and to add chump blockers if I get in a bind.
Sideboard:
Destructive Revelry is for gods mostly but also for any enchantment based decks.
Skarrg Guildmage
is for heavy token decks or small creature decks to increase my chances of getting trample on my creatures.
Fall of the Hammer
as i said before is for creature removal and has an added bonus of working against flyers.
Finally I could really use some help with the sideboard.
Well that's about it I would love some suggestions I really just built this deck cause I pulled a foil Xenagos, the Reveler and this is what came out of it.
