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Flying Wurm Farm

Legacy Elves

nateinengland


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Elvish Piper is running a wurm farm! I added a few other key non-wurm cards to give my wurms abilities and to keep cards in my hand all the time.
The key here is to make sure you have either an Elvish Piper or Elvish Harbinger or Skyshroud Poacher in your opening hand so that you can get the Piper out as quickly as possible. I usually hope to have an Elvish Mystic in my starting hand too. If I have Elvish Harbinger + Elvish Mystic + 2 lands in my starting hand (which happens quite often), I can get the Piper out on turn 3. I then use him to get out as many of the wurms as I can as well as an Archetype of Imagnination to make them all fly.
Garruk's Packleader keeps lots of stuff in my hand. Altar of Bone lets me search for whatever I need and lets me sacrifice things like the Pelakka Wurm or Symbiotic Wurm to get their bonuses. Whatever I search for can usually go out immediately using the Pipers, i.e. Altar of Bone + Elvish Piper . By about turn 7 I usually have multiple Pipers and enough beat-sticks to make everyone else nervous.
I've been playing this with my friends for a while now and it is pretty fun. A little slow in 1v1 games but the Pelakka Wurm s help make up for the life I lost until I got the mechanic working. This deck is awesome in multiplayer games.
I realize there are other wurms that would be great here, but I find that they take some of the fun out of the game and they are expensive (e.g. Elderscale Wurm). I have debated a few other cards that are currently in the maybeboard, and they would add great things to the deck, but I like keeping it to wurms that fly.
Also I realize the lands are sort of random, but those are all cards I have that I am currently playing in the deck. If I had others or ones that were more logical choices I'd be playing them.

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 9 years
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Legality

This deck is Legacy legal.

Rarity (main - side)

0 - 1 Mythic Rares

21 - 3 Rares

14 - 10 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 4.70
Tokens Elephant 3-3 G, Insect 1/1 G
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