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The Things Venser hid in His Closet

Standard* Combo Four Color Ramp Toolbox Zoo

thejadejedi


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I know four color looks like a lot for a standard deck to handle but this is mostly green, plenty of ramp and all my non green cards only need one other color.

This deck is an ETB deck (and yes, I know nearly any deck running Torpor Orb would beat my face in...) It focuses on mostly creatures and Conjurer's Closet, Venser, the Sojourner and Restoration Angel. If I ever cast Primal Surge I'll flip my deck (it's a MAY ability so I can stop before I deck out.) Let me point out a few areas of my deck.

Ramp:
Birds of Paradise, Pretty Obvious there.
Viridian Emissary, fetches a land when It dies. Doubles for stalling the game a few turns as well.
Druids' Repository, Provides any color that I need and gets me lots of mana a few turns down the road.
Solemn Simulacrum, With his ETB Ramp, I can start flickering him the next turn if I have one of my flicker pieces in hand. (Also works for stalling games.)
Primeval Titan, Sadly, I only have one in stock. But with the beast tracker, one is often all I'll need.

Win Conditions: (Any of the creatures coupled with either the Closet or Venser create my win condition.)
Primal Surge This flips my deck. It's great and often wins the game right there. not to mention with all my flickering at the end of turn and the metamorphs, I'll wipe their entire mana base out to prevent things like day of judgement or even a miracled Terminus. Without any mana, they can't cast a single thing.
Thragtusk Life each turn plus a free token? Sounds Good.
Acidic Slime Destroys a land each turn or any other pesky artifacts.
Stonehorn Dignitary, unless you have a kill spell, you'll never attack again.
Kessig Wolf Run, mid-late game I'm sitting on lots of mana and having one of these is a great mana dump for my excess mana.
Champion of Lambholt or Soul of the Harvest with all the guys entering, their abilities will be dinging a few times each turn. (Add free triggers if you flicker a Restoration Angel.)
and lastly, Zealous Conscripts says, "Hey, that's a nice creature you have there. I think I'll take it. (and never give it back :) "

Delay of Game: Yes, this deck is a little slow without ramp, so here's a few things to stall.
Stonehorn Dignitary What says stall better than "You can't even consider attacking this turn"?
Viridian Emissary Rarely do people want to trade with this guy because I get a mana boost while they simply lose a guy.
Phyrexian Metamorph, This guy is my all star. he is anyone I want him to be. He's a kill spell, he's a extra bomb, or, he's something amazing that you have that I think would be fun to have myself, or, he can just be a second Closet door if I have plenty of creatures to flicker.


Anyway, that's my deck. Hope you like it and let me know how I can make it better. If you would like help with your deck, just post a link here for me and I'll take a look at it. Much appreciated :)

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Tonight there were 20 people signed up for FNM. My final score was 4-1 (losing only to the guy who placed first on my second round).

Round 1: BU Infect (2-1) This one was close. Game 1, I barely survived to cast Primal Surge and flipped my deck for the win. Game two I sided in my infect hate and sadly never saw my Slyvok Outcast at all. Oh well, near the end of game three, I had her, a flickering Acidic Slime and a few other smaller creatures ready to swing in for game (which is what I did).

Round 2: BGw Birthing Pod (2-0) This guy was a little slow at taking his turns, but I still like playing him. I believe his white was only for O-rings but I'm not sure. We even got into an o-ring war game two, but when I hit his third o-ring with an Acidic Slime, well, that ended that. (Which gave me back Venser which allowed me to bounce my slime again) Then I used Venser to the fullest and blew his lands, artifacts (Pod & Wurmcoil Pieces) and o-rings. There was nothing the poor guy could do.

Round 3: UG Pumpfect Defiance (1-2)...or maybe 0-2. I don't remember :/ Exactly like the douchbag deck that makes me hate infect. Blighted Agent and Artful Dodge is a sure way to keep everything from being blocked. I almost went all beat down on him but I was just a little slower :(

Round 4: GR Stuffy Doll (2-0) In all fairness, he got majorly land flooded. On turn 7 both games I would doubt if he had missed a single land drop. Game 1, he dropped a Tower of Calamities and Stuffy Doll. I then O-ringed the Doll and Acidic Slimed his tower. Game 2, Primeval Titan and Kessig Wolf Run won the day (also an honorable mention to Druids' Repository for the extra 6 mana to use on my Kessig pump.)

Round 5: Bg Exalted Infect Obliterator Milling Pod (2-1) This guy was undefeated until he faced me. It was pretty darn good I thought. He used a Birthing Pod to go from Phyrexian Crusader to Phyrexian Obliterator. I wasn't worried until on game 2, he swung with a 9/9 trampling Obliterator. I took one round of that and then died :( Game 3 was very close. He had a Vampire Nighthawk with Sword of Body and Mind. I was lucky and played a Thragtusk (which got promptly Murdered...but I still got 5 life and a beast token) and just kept drawing dudes. So that was really nice :) But he still almost won. The only reason I got its was because of the Kessig Wolf Run along with all my 2/2 guys :) I believe I had 2-VE, 2-SS, 2-BR and a BoP to chump block before I started dying.

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  • Achieved #23 position overall 12 years ago
Date added 12 years
Last updated 12 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 1 Mythic Rares

23 - 12 Rares

9 - 0 Uncommons

17 - 0 Commons

Cards 69
Avg. CMC 3.49
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner
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