This is a variant of my other Beast Rampage deck, but built in Modern. As before, the idea is to spawn as many beasts as quickly as possible and attack with
Rhox
and/or
Lure
and/or Beastmaster Ascension to deal 20 or more player damage suddenly.
+1/+1 counters are placed with Oran-Rief, the Vastwood,
Fangren Firstborn
or
Primeval Bounty
and then incremented Renegade Krasis (which can be bounced by
Roaring Primadox
in order to reset counters). using ramp up to get those creatures strong enough to be lethal, and to block in the meantime. Contagion Engine Proliferates these +1/+1 counters (and Planeswalker's counters, and Beastmaster Ascension's counters) while wiping out the opposing army by Proliferating the -1/-1 counters is places.
In converting to Modern from Legacy, I had to replace Nature's Lore with Cultivate,
Wirewood Savage
with Garruk's Packleader,Naturalize with
Indrik Stomphowler
and
Totem Speaker
with
Primeval Bounty
(and possibly
Obstinate Baloth
). I'd love to know a Modern replacement for
Krosan Warchief
but I haven't found one and this is the main reason I've kept the deck as Legacy until now; however Asceticism at least allows creatures to regenerate and Descendants' Path helps to bring more creatures out without needing so much mana. Additionally, an upside of removing those cards is that the deck now has 100% beasts with no elves. Because of that, I've removed Joraga Treespeaker which is no longer as useful.
Of course, a big problem of removing all those elves and
Krosan Warchief
is that the deck is somewhat slower now. It can do more once it gets there, but it still takes a couple turns longer to get going. Any suggestions to speed things up, preferably with beasts spells, would be appreciated. (Kalonian Tusker should help with that a little). There are a few cards I'd like to add more of, but I can't think of anything I really want to cut out of the deck at this point. Are there any cards you don't think are pulling their weight? I'd also like sideboard suggestions, especially since there are a few weaknesses of the deck. Some examples: it can't do anything against flying (or Forestwalking or Prot. Green, etc), only Asceticism's regen can protect key creatures from kills spells and DD, and no good defense against the fastest decks. A good sideboard could help patch some situational weaknesses. Thanks for any suggestions.
