I really don't want to explain all the things I feel I need to with this, but this is my best effort. It's slow. The deck is slow and it will get destroyed by something like affinity. For help/advice, here's my elf deck; I can beat infinity on my turn 4 almost always.

Joraga War Tribe

This deck also usually wins by turn 4 since you can use the combo with Heritage Druid and Nettle Sentinel to flood the board with elves and win using either good old elves buffed by lords/ezuri, using Chord of Calling to hit a Craterhoof Behemoth, or landing a couple of Shaman of the Pack. With faster hands, the deck is capable of dealing upwards of 20 damage on turn 3.

Turn 4: Perfect hand and draw, I am swinging with 4 elves all getting +12/+12 at the very least...

Also I would highly suggest you take Dwynen's Elite out it just... it's not worth Imperious Perfect I feel is stronger because it's a lord and it'll continue to produce tokens.

Lastly sideboard the Elvish Champion, put in another lord because honestly it's only really good if you are playing against green Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen wouldn't be a bad alternative to help with fly blockers but again Imperious Perfect is good.

@ user: DrkNinja. I'll try to explain why I think this deck is good and why yours needs improvments.

-rapidity: this deck is pretty fast because of its turn 1 ramp machines. I always do turn 4 win with it. with each card being important.

Yours is too slow with only four usefull turn 1 Elvish Mystic which makes you able to play your too many turn 3+ on turn 2. (the play in your description is good but not representative) (21 elves - 29 cards mana cost minimum 3 to be interesting) The Mana Cost of your deck is too high to be competitive.

-Stability: your deck doesn't look like it has the stability this one has. All the cards of your list aren't usefull before turn 5.You should add some mana ramp as Llanowar Elves, and lower your average mana cost.

And pay attention Wirewood Lodge isn't modern legal...

@ user jchudz : I like this deck because it reminds me of legacy elf-ball.

What do you think about adding 2 more Chord of Calling they were the most usefull cards to hit the kill on turn 4 at every playtest I made. (I playtested it with U/R delver, with my GoblinBurn WR deck, with the affinity of a friend of mine, with mono green, with martyrlife, with junk, and with storm.)

Also, did you consider adding Beck / Call? It means adding blue to your mana base, but it may help your Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel to pay off a lot with the Beck effect.

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"Shaman of the Pack the only elf card I love as much as a goblin card..." Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Beck is interesting, but it's difficult for the deck to reliably get blue to cast it, at lest not without upping the fetch count at the expense of cavern and the palaces if i was going to go that route, I'd probably just play Cloudstone Curio and recycle visionaries to draw.

I could potentially see dropping a couple Llanowar Elves to flush out the playset of chords.

Won't dropping Llanowar Elves be a risk for your deck stability?

Cloudstone Curio looks good. The only thing I dislike with it is the 3 mana cost. But it may be because I have been a goblin player/builder for too long : ).

Actually, the visionaries have been kind of underwhelming lately, so they would probably be the first to be cut.

@fariboles Actually my deck NEVER has stability issues I win turn 4 80% of the time and turn 5 the other 20%. I rarely lose to anyone, and I can beat affinity. And yes I know Wirewood Lodge isn't modern I play it when I play casually. I also don't want a bunch of mana dorks and nothing to do with them, so I won't put in llanowars, or the heritages because I've found I end up lacking anything to do and an entire board state of mana dorks. I stand by elves are aggro and this 12 mana dorks thing, it's too much.

@ DrkNinja : I don't agree but it's a way to build a modern elf deck I suppose. I told it lacks stability because over 50 playtests it failled 30 times to kill on turn 4 without any oponent simulation. But I'll try it against my decks and some others of the meta-game.

Not adding Heritage Druid to your pack looks like a good thing in your pack, but I may be wrong. Your two packs are obviously very different in many ways. This one can be played as a combo one, yours is a full aggro.

For exemple: replacing dwynens elves with Imperious Perfect is bad in this deck because it would lower Shaman of the Pack killing power and it will rise the mana cost of the deck. But in your deck Imperious Perfect fits better than dwynens elves . But it's not the same purpose.

I'll try your deck again and against my own decks and friends ones and will tell you how it worked on your deck page.

Also you cannot say of a deck that it never has stability issues. It's impossible if you look at probabilities. Every deck has stability issue, even the most competitive ones, less than others, that's all.

So this is a 77 card deck? WTH? lol

I was messing around in edit board and everything wound up in the main somehow.

ah, much better! I was confused as to why some cards were "Mainboard" but now this deck looks solid. I already +1ed or else I'd do it again!

Is their a way to make this deck more "budget" for us poor folk?

@Unsieged Yea run mono green without all the special lands, without heritage druid, and without the fauna shaman.

DrkNinja thank you! But what would I use to replace the pack shamans,the heritage Druids and the fauna shaman?

Here is my elf deck its SIGNIFICANTLY less money

Joraga War Tribe Playtest

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Also Nissa Revane and Collected Company is not necessary. Nissa helps the mid to late game, and collected company it just accelerates the deck so much that its significantly less competitive with top modern decks.

Hell the lands alone in this deck total up to 300$

Unfortunately Unsieged, there really aren't any real budget replacements for Heritage Druid since it's effect of letting you tap elves that just entered the battlefield for mana doesn't really exist elsewhere in modern and Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel is the core of what lets the deck flood the board full of elves.

DrkNinja would you care to explain exactly how accelerating a deck makes it less competitive?

Sorry, that's not what I meant I meant that Collected Company accelerates the deck so much, and without it it makes the deck much less competitive. I was thinking "without it" but I guess I just thought I typed it and I didn't.

I will say I do still disagree that Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel is not necessary because I run my deck without it and I beat pretty much everything in my shop's modern meta except theLiving End + Violent Outburst deck, but then I just sideboard somethings and win still.

i would swap something for one Overgrown Tomb that way you can guarantee consistency for getting down Shaman of the Pack, you can use Windswept Heath to get Overgrown Tomb, you can use Chord of Calling or you can use Collected Company.