[Outdated] The Fastest Mana Ramp in Standard
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Ohthenoises says... #4
What I would look into is Fervor and splashing red for it. It makes the early game that much quicker in that you can tap an Elvish Archdruid for another Elvish Archdruid and chain that into 4 dorks without needing to invest 7 mana into Akroma's Memorial .
May 28, 2013 11:13 a.m.
keilahmartin says... #5
Oh, you can stop Primal Surging whenever you want. Very nice then!
May 28, 2013 8:19 p.m.
BRUTAL!!! Great deck man, I playtested it, and I got shocked!!! and in none of the playtests I was able to play Primal Surge! What a bomb!! really really fast! +1!
I just don't understand what is Ooze Flux doing over here, you can replace it for a Nevermore since you don't have to cast it with Primal Surge and that's a way to prevent Fog and Supreme Verdict !
May 29, 2013 7:09 p.m.
Lostsorrow says... #7
it wouldn't hurt to drop a Fervor in there just to drop it when Primal Surge goes off.
May 30, 2013 3:22 p.m.
t3hSn0wm4n says... #9
Possibility Storm
would not affect Primal Surge
. since Primal Surge
is pulling from your top deck and Possibility Storm
specifies the phrase "from your hand," you would not use the effects of storm while pulling for surge.
May 31, 2013 3:38 p.m.
Also, Akroma's Memorial will give haste to your creatures in mono-green.
May 31, 2013 3:45 p.m.
Possibility Storm guarantees that you don't hit the other surge by exiling the original, making a perfect surge every time.
May 31, 2013 3:48 p.m.
OK, you might believe that is the right call, Jp3ngu1nb0y, but I believe more in consistency than perfect Primal Surge s, even if you can cast a Avacyn's Pilgrim and get a Worldspine Wurm .
May 31, 2013 3:56 p.m.
t3hSn0wm4n says... #13
Worldspine Wurm scares me...... holy shit.... lol.... where is my Turn / Burn hidden??????
May 31, 2013 4:19 p.m.
Very cool, but playtesting has revealed a slight problem. It's easy to mill yourself out with primal surge when you have a soul of the harvest out.
Draw card due to primal surge, draw creature, play creature.Draw card due to soul of the harvest, draw other primal surge.Draw another card due to primal surge, until your milled out.
This may also be an issue with elvish visionary, but that has a far more important role, and is far less likely.
May 31, 2013 7:46 p.m.
Since everyone is afraid of the Supreme Verdict why not put in a little insurance in the form of Gutter Grime . Dare them to play a mass removal with that on the board.
May 31, 2013 8:52 p.m.
We have insurance in Elixir of Immortality and the Worldspine Wurm tokens, but Gutter Grime definitely could be a good sideboard card.
June 1, 2013 6:52 a.m.
@Zorkron - I was originally hesitant to put Soul of the Harvest
in this deck for this very reason until I saw the 'may' in the card text. So you don't have to draw any card if you don't want to.
Also, Primal Surge has to resolve first before anything else on the stack, so it's not like you're Primal Surging a creature down, then drawing a card immediately after.
@Jokulhaups - Nice suggestion! I wasn't even aware of Gutter Grime, added.
June 2, 2013 9:38 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #19
I'm glad you liked my suggestion of Soul of the Harvest , have you ever thought of splashing red for a cheaper haste enabler that would allow you to play an Elvish Archdruid and immediately tap it for mana. Fervor comes to mind.
June 2, 2013 9:41 p.m.
@Ohthenoises - While I like the idea of Hasted mana tap creatures, and it does add more options to the table. I'd have to play test it a bit first before I'd consider it worth adding another color to this deck.
June 2, 2013 9:48 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #21
Of course. consider just using the Stomping Ground /Rootbound Crag s if you do.
Grow Big Or Go Home is my take on it.
June 2, 2013 9:50 p.m.
keilahmartin says... #22
Akroma's Memorial is legendary, forcing you to either stop the primal surge or put both in play, which then kills them both. Why not just 1?
June 3, 2013 2:51 a.m.
I completely forgot that Akroma's Memorial is legendary, BUT, after M14 comes out, the "legend rule" will change so you will always have an Akroma's Memorial in play, and will also have a functional reprint of Llanowar Elves that I play instead of Avacyn's Pilgrim .
Anyway, here's my version of this deck: One-Land Ramp.
June 3, 2013 6:40 a.m.
iPwnPancakes says... #24
I say replace Gyre Sage with something like Somberwald Sage
June 4, 2013 3:14 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #25
Somberwald Sage cant power out Primal Surge and he is not an elf.
pauloleson says... #1
like go bant with Sphinx's Revelation
May 28, 2013 10:42 a.m.