Beastly Beating

Casual Luvr117

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Glimpse of Nature would be a great card in here. If you splash a bit of blue you can also throw in Beck / Call for the Beck part. I like this deck, and would love to see how it does :) One final suggestion is mainboard Explore over Rites of Flourishing to prevent helping the opponent. +1

August 22, 2013 11:41 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #2

I thought of Glimpse, it seems to fit but really most of my card draw comes from Rampaging Baloth and it doesn't help in that situation. Possibly better for some early game draw though. Pop one and then drop an elf or a warchief.Also I generally don't play the Rites until turn 4 or 5 when I'm set up to get a game winning amount of creatures in one turn, then they pretty much get 3 cards to try and win otherwise I just stomp them to death.What I'd really like is a beast with >= 3 power that searches for a land when it comes in to play but I don't think that exists.Not really interested in adding blue, although a Followed Footsteps on a thragtusk would be awesome XD

August 23, 2013 1:26 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #3

Oh damn, also Glimpse is a 15 dollar card so no chance I'm getting any of those.

August 23, 2013 1:31 p.m.

Your creature draw engine doesn't come out til the late game, and if you're goal is to get this done fast, you need to get some early card draw. Glimpse of Nature helps until you can at least get the real beatsticks out.

Rites of Flourishing in a deck like this can be great, except it also helps the opponent and more times than not, it will hurt you. A lot of my decks would abuse the hell out of that effect, and I don't even have to cast it. However if you still wanna run it then cool :) I would definitely mainboard the Explore s though. So good.

August 23, 2013 1:31 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #5

The only problem I had with Explore is I'm never sure when to cast it.If I don't have any land in my hand then I feel like it's too risky to cast and hope for a land draw, And I want to save it until I can plop an extra beast into play with it. Where as with rites I can just drop it and get more cards forever.I can't deny that Rites of Flourishing helps the opponent a lot too, just hoping my combo going off is worth the extra help they get (A lot of this deck is hypothetical at this point and it's hard to playtest vs no one)

August 23, 2013 1:38 p.m.

Yeah I get what you mean, and the deck doesn't have to be so overpowered that people can never seem to win. Explore is good cause even if you don't get the extra land drop you still draw a card for only 1G. It's essentially a Think Twice for green that instead of flashback allows an extra land drop.

The only problem I see with your combo and Rites of Flourishing is board wipes and sweepers. Just one would destroy your deck at that point. However that is mere speculation, as many would say the same about my mana ramp deck yet it is deadly as hell.

August 23, 2013 1:53 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #7

Yeah none of the people I play with really play board wipers very often. Makes really creature heavy decks like this one a lot easier to play lolHarrow also came to mind, early game it's cheap extra mana, synergies well with Explore and late game it might as well say "Draw 2 cards, get two 4/4 beasts" lol

August 23, 2013 1:59 p.m.

Harrow is indeed good, but it is better if you can copy it, as that gets you four lands at the cost of only one. In my deck Swaying to the Symphony of Destruction I use Harrow and then Twincast it. This means I sacrifice one land and search for four :D

Your call on that one, but definitely need some more ramp in here.

August 23, 2013 2:02 p.m.

this deck is awesome! I playtested it a few times and had no problem with mana, but consider Bellowing Tanglewurm . I know its not a beast, but its awesome, and you wont have any trouble playing it, It can end the game a lot sooner, as there arent many sources of trample in your deck.

August 28, 2013 9:43 a.m.

Luvr117 says... #10

That would help a lot but I'm really trying to only use beasts.I think Craterhoof Behemoth is going to replace Terra Stomper once I can get some, that should be enough for a final obliterating attack.

August 28, 2013 2:14 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #11

If I could find another creature or enchantment I could spend all my extra mana on every turn to give some creatures trample or something that would be good, not sure what to get though.

August 28, 2013 2:23 p.m.

i only know of Roughshod Mentor , but its clearly not a beast. Other decent cards I can think of for this deck are Feral Throwback , Kurgadon , and Garruk's Horde

August 28, 2013 10:17 p.m.

Krosan Groundshaker is perfect. It gives your beasts trample and is a 6/6 beast as well.

August 28, 2013 11:16 p.m.

Luvr117 says... #14

YES omg Umbro you rock <3

August 29, 2013 2:18 a.m.

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