Oh...THAT'S how you do that lol. I've been trying to figure that out. Thanks! Haha.

Naya Podblade of Tool

Sometimes they come back...

Same with cards [Dark Depths] - Dark Depths.

for another guy in your 4 drop slot, because it's looking kind of low with 4 four drops, 3 Sad robots and 1 metamorph.Think of HoTf this way. You paid 2 life to pod, most likely. HoTf enters the battlefield, gains you 2 life, and gives you a 2/2. That's for 1, or 2, mana! And if you hardcast him thats 4 mana for 2 life, and 2 2/2 bodies with the ability of when he flips shocking your opponent and one of their guys.

That's my two cents for now

Well dam I type a lot...

oh well I forgot to say Grafdigger's Cage just trolls pod all day long and GSZ but w/e >.>

Tyokan has a point Noxious Revival or Reclaim would be nice but Buried Ruin is uncounterable, mixture of both perhaps?

@Tyokan I agree that pod as a central theme is difficult to really be successful, with the amount of artifact hate out there a pod deck is difficult to really be successful. This however does not play like a normal pod deck. Most pod decks run through 1 long chain. Interrupt the chain at any point and the pod deck falls apart. Kill the pod and you're again screwed.

This however has two separate chains that require you to use the pod AT most 2x, in many cases its only a use of 1 time to pod into a dungrove or a primeval. This is really a Wolf Run deck with a twist. The pod just adds more consistency to the deck from my playtesting at least.

As to Grafdigger's Cage, as I said when it was spoiled, it is too difficult to work around in the current standard and thus is rarely seen even in a SB. The Card was selling for $10 a pop during prerelease now it is half that and has yet to see any real play. I'm not worried about it, though the card was made to stop pod decks in general.

A 1x Buried Ruin and the other forementioned cards are definitely worth sideboarding, at least.

But remember Buried Ruin has LESS targets and also when it fetches pod loses you a land drop. T4 down to 3 lands. Ba derp :. This is where you say well I have Rampant Growths! Well it still is a bad thing when you have to sacrifice your own land to get your pod.

Noxious Revival on the other hand can cost NO MANA so you can do whatever the heck it is you wanted to do anyway at the end of their turn. But still just going down -1 CA bc of a revival is better than going down -1 CA AND a land drop from Buried Ruin. Btw just saying that in most cases it is -1 CA if you get Ancient Grudged.

Also check out my deck here:

A Piece of Steak

It is a WRR R/G deck but it is geared towards this meta (Heavy @ss aggro). Been playtesting it a lot and going to FNM's with it, so far 32-9 . But I feel it still has room for A LOT of improvement, well it can always improve right...? But I just want some critique on it and some exposure. So uhhh thanks!

Just an idea ... Phyrexian Metamorph can copy Strangleroot Geist. Then, when it dies, it comes back on the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter ... but also copying a new creature.

Have you thought about Pyreheart Wolf? I think it could be really useful, and uber aggro for this deck. I'm toying with it in R/G aggro right now, and it does some real work. It has Undying, so I figure it would be worth the mention in this Pod/Run Hybrid. +1

You should try adding some Zealous Conscripts to the deck.

When it comes into play you can take control of an opponents permanent OR you can untap your birthing pod to sacrifice the Conscripts to get to a 6 mana cost creature.

So you can go from a 4 cost creature to a 5 cost Zealous Conscripts, then to a 6 cost creature in one turn.