Thanks so much for showing me this deck ElPared! It really gets at the heart of the power of Intruder Alarm and Gilt-Leaf Archdruid , and gave me some awesome ideas for improving my own builds.

no problem, glad I could help :)

Glimpse of Nature is banned in modern. You can replace it with Beck / Call , though.

oh yeah, I forgot about that. Stupid affinity.

Beck it is I guess

I'm curious what your take on Verduran Enchantress is. I guess I'm wondering if replacing some of the Voyaging Satyr for her would hurt your ramp too much to gain the added benefit of drawing cards with your enchantments. In my own playtesting I've found that Arbor Elf with lots of stacked Utopia Sprawl on a Forest can get things kick started fairly quickly as far as the ramp goes.

DeepShadow: half of my enchantments cantrip, so I hadn't really thought much about it. Now that you mention it, though, an enchantress would make extra Intruder Alarm s in my hand useful for something, and may help dig me out of some jams.

I'm becoming less and less enamored with Elvish Archdruid the more I play this deck. It's simply not as good as Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx with the Satyrs or with a Nylea's Presence /Arbor Elf combo up, so I think I'll cut most of those for Enchantresses. It's a neat solution to my arbitrary "must be Tribal Wars legal" requirement for this deck too haha

I feel similarly. Karametra's Acolyte achieves the same thing but doesn't tie you to elves, if you're looking for other options. Of all the "Add x mana" dorks though, I probably like Voyaging Satyr the best, provided you can get your land setup where you have something on the board that produces multiple mana like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx , or a Forest with 4 Utopia Sprawl stacked on it.

Also, I think the Research/Development strategy is a really cool idea, and definitely worth trying out.

hah! I'm so unfamiliar with Standard I didn't even know Karametra's Acolyte was a thing. I could probably run her instead of Heritage Druid , but I like that heritage druids bypass the need for Thousand-Year Elixir . 15 elves has been fine so far in testing, though, I think any fewer and I'd too often be without the 3 elves I need to activate it.

I will try out Research though, it seems like a decent way to just get my infinite mana and then decide how I'm going to win. Although the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that I only need Skyscribing and Banefire to deal with 99% of decks.