That was my initial thought also, but Apoptosis proved to me that with this much ramp and the versatility Mistcutter Hydra has against control he's a good mainboard card

Kalonian Hydra scares me and is pretty easy to cast. I would run it over Karametra's Acolyte . As an aggressive ramp deck you need a lot of bombs at various CMC and the hydra at 5 does more then added ramp at 4.

Haha but alas, I don't have any Kalonian Hydra

I have one to trade.

Looking for anything in particular?

xenagos, the reveler would be a sweet deal, specially since I see you took him out of this deck.

That's not bad at all.

my email is [email protected]

Emailed ya.

This is a lot like the deck I've been using for the past few weeks, Shadow of the Colossus. It's a lot of fun, and I recommend you try splashing for Beck / Call and testing with Voyaging Satyr for comboing with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Lordlordington I'll definitely check it out, I've been looking for new ways to add card draw so I don't run out of fatties with mana to spare

You've currently got 35 creatures, half of them provide ramp (which I still think is too much). You want card draw? 4x Garruk, Caller of Beasts is your answer, nothing else comes close. You should be able to empty you hand and cast him around T4 and then refill your hand to drop a bomb T5-T6.

trust me Apoptosis if i had 4x Garruk, Caller of Beasts i totally would, but i only have two haha

I kind of liked the Fathom Mage

Have you considered Zhur-Taa Ancient or Xenagos, The Reveler ? They both can generate a huuuuge amount of mana

never got your email

Zhur-Taa Ancient gives everyone insane amount of mana... that's no good

What's everyone think of Mana Bloom ?

Have you considered Voyaging Satyr to untap Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx ? That was a combo used for the R/G ramp deck that took 3 or 4th I think at pro tour.

You have even more devotion to one color, you'd get huge amounts from that.

try this out of the cheapest ramp Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Voyaging Satyr i saw it in a tournament today

What's everyone think of the changes? And yes I realize Mana Bloom isn't amazing, but it boosts my deck just enough early game to build momentum

This is... beautiful...

Im really not a fan of the recent changes... i loved the fact that u could draw out the game with defenders, while gaining mana through axebane... but no more... Im defenately not gonna make this version of the deck

boligbent I liked the huge ramp that Axebane Guardian gave as well as drawing out the game a bit, but I found it wasn't quite competitive enough because control would bounce him or kill him, and burn would kill him and leave me with no defense, attack or mana.