Please help me find some other good creatures for this deck!
This deck is optimized for use with Conjurer's Closet, but still performs well when the closet is never drawn. It mana ramps really well, and then has some big creatures that you can cast early in the game.
As you would expect this deck has a lot of ETB (Enter the Battlefield) creatures that you can "flicker" at end of turn using the closet. Elvish Visionary allows you to draw a card. Farhaven Elf and Primeval Titan allow you to retrieve land AND put the land into play (this is important). Fierce Empath allows you to search your library for the big creature that fits your current needs. Acidic Slime destroys an enchantment, artifact, or a land. Bogardan Hellkite and Cloudthresher do damage when they come into play.
Broodmate Dragon
and Avenger of Zendikar generate token creatures. Eternal Witness returns a card in the graveyard to your hand. Having so many different ETB abilities at your disposal allows you to adapt to most situations. One of the only problems with this deck is deciding what to "flicker". What do I want to do for free this turn? Do I want to kill something, bring something back, get another "monster", generate a token... I can't decide! I have to admit, putting out a Bogardan Hellkite and then flickering it a couple of times on the same turn is pretty satisfying.
The ultimate abuse of the closet is having both Avenger of Zendikar and one of the land retrieval cards (preferably Primeval Titan). If you have a closet or two, Avenger of Zendikar can be cast and then flickered to create quite a few 0/1 plants! Then next turn you put out a land retrieval creature, flicker it, and the plants get scary quickly. If you use Primeval Titan (not limited to looking for basic lands) you can ensure you always have a land to play as well, by digging up a Golgari Rot Farm which forces you to return a land to your hand when you put it into play. Out come three lands in one turn. Then flicker it once and your plants just received +5/+5 in one turn. Manage to have Anger in your graveyard or Fervor in play, and you can also fetch two more lands when the titan attacks the turn it comes into play. With only one of each in the deck, the Fierce Empath really helps to make this combo come together.
The other theme of the deck is elves! This is because if Joraga Treespeaker is levelled up, all elves produce two green mana. Due to the Treespeaker and the land drawing ability of some of the other creatures, mana is usually in abundance. If the elves are left unmolested, it is possible to be able to produce mana equal to twice the turn number. This helps to cast the big creatures in the deck, pump up Mana-Charged Dragon, or do some serious burning using Comet Storm (I love this card).
Eternal Witness is good when an essential card (like a closet) is sent to the graveyard. If you are fortunate enough to get Entomb then you can also go retrieve a card that Fierce Empath can't access. And then flicker Eternal Witness to get Entomb back and repeat as needed.
Other closet compatible cards I have tried in this deck are Big Game Hunter (requirement to have two black mana in a mostly green and red deck caused some frustration),
Tyrant of Discord
(annoying to have opponent randomly sacrifice a permanent... multiple times a turn), and Furyborn Hellkite (never searched for it).
I think I would replace an Acidic Slime with a Woodfall Primus or Sylvan Primordial if I had one. That way you can get a "disenchant" from the library using Fierce Empath when you need it.
I recently added wolves to the deck. I added Wren's Run Packmaster as another outlet for the mana, and a couple
Wolf-Skull Shaman
s since it shares creature types with so many others (Elf Shaman).
Suggestions? Any other cool ETB creatures that I missed?
