Defenders II: The Defendering

Standard* Aggro BG (Golgari) Budget Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (25)

• 4x Archers' Parapet
• 4x Disowned Ancestor
• 2x Grim Haruspex
• 3x Master of the Feast
• 2x Meandering Towershell
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 3x Scourge of Skola Vale
• 2x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 4x Wall of Mulch

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (23)

• 9x Forest
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 10x Swamp

Instant (5)

• 3x Awaken the Bear
• 2x Silence the Believers

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Kin-Tree Invocation
• 2x Read the Bones

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Rakshasa Deathdealer

Instant (11)

• 1x Back to Nature
• 3x Bile Blight
• 4x Naturalize
• 3x Ranger's Guile

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Drown in Sorrow

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Kheru Bloodsucker
• 1x Sultai Flayer

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Hardened Scales

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The follow up to a previous standard deck, Shadow of the Colossus.

Looking for a budget deck to cheese your way to victory?

Imagine the following scenario:

T1: Disowned Ancestor

T2: Kin-Tree Invocation as a 4/4

It's not hard to do at all! You get a big beat stick while your opponent is sitting with just a tapped scry land.

Once Kin-Tree is out, the walls aren't really needed anymore. Wall of Mulch sacs itself or other walls to card advantage. You can also feed the walls to Scourge of Skola Vale .

Meandering Towershell keeps Kin-Tree relevant in the late game, since who doesn't want a two drop 9/9?

Grim Haruspex turns Wall of Mulch into Divination and also triggers off of Scourge. Reaper of the Wilds benefits similarly.

Drown in Sorrow prevents chump blocking.

Master of the Feast is a cheap fatty to get things rolling. Sometimes you get a Scourge without any defenders, so he lays on the hurt while you wait to get online. If the opponent's card advantage becomes too much to handle, you can always feed him to Scourge. As if that weren't enough, he provides another 5 toughness target for Kin-Tree.

Scuttling Doom Engine is a nice fatty on its own so not all of the creatures rely on having defenders out, and as a bonus can take advantage of the sacrifice effects in the deck.

To cut costs you can replace Llanowar Wastes with [[jungle hollow, the deck still runs fine. You could also cut Liliana Vess and throw in maybe another read the bones.

Top Ranked	Achieved #37 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 2 Rares 8 - 4 Uncommons 13 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Spirit Warrior */* BG
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