GU Tough Guys

Standard GU (Simic) Toughness Matters

jawz

Creature (29)

• 2x Armored Scrapgorger
• 4x Bedrock Tortoise
• 2x Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
• 3x Ingenious Prodigy
• 2x Jacob Hauken, Inspector  ^Flip
• 2x Mutagen Connoisseur
• 2x Steamcore Scholar
• 3x Streetwise Negotiator
• 2x Tempest Hart
• 3x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 2x Walking Bulwark
• 1x Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Land (23)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 4x Dreamroot Cascade
• 3x Escape Tunnel
• 5x Forest
• 4x Hedge Maze
• 5x Island
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Careful Cultivation
• 3x Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1x Unnatural Growth

Artifact (1)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Soulless Jailer

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Looking at Toughness-matters cards like The Pride of Hull Clade and Bedrock Tortoise. There really isn't enough in Standard to make the strategy work, but let's see what's there.

Mainly building around Bedrock Tortoise and The Pride of Hull Clade. With the Pride I'll try to move into blue. Geralf, Visionary Stitcher seems possible. It'll stich a 15/15 out of a Pride which isn't bad.

Other toughness filler cards I'm trying are Armored Scrapgorger for the ramp, Mutagen Connoisseur for the flying/vigilance, Streetwise Negotiator for the toughness damage (poor man's Bedrock), Walking Bulwark, and The Reality Chip.

Careful Cultivation is surprise ramp on turn 2 but the Aura form gets value here too.

Escape Tunnel gets the low power, high toughness damage through blockers. Getting a Pride attacking for 15 toughness damage while the Tunnel makes the 2 power unblockable is actually surprising. Conduit of Worlds can get the Tunnel back from the graveyard every turn. It's a low land count but hopefully the ramp cards are enough.

If 15 toughness damage doesn't feel powerful enough, try adding in a Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus or Unnatural Growth to double up to 30 toughness damage. (0 power creatures double up to 0 power so they still can use the Tunnel.)

Decided to try filling the rest of the deck with card draw value based on Proft's Eidetic Memory. So I'm including Ingenious Prodigy Steamcore Scholar Tempest Hart Jacob Hauken, Inspector  . But probably these slots should be more about counterspells or removal. I'm too impatient to wait on what opponent is doing, I'd rather just dig harder to get my stuff out faster.

Date added	8 months
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 2 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Human Monk 1/1 G, On an Adventure, Zombie X/X U