Improving Elf Deck
Deck Help forum
Posted on March 1, 2013, 7:52 p.m. by Isella
I was able to test out the new elf deck I've got going, but I need to figure out how to deal with flyers. This deck can be really fast, but found out the hard way that if it's not fast enough I'm toast when flyers are involved.
I'm wondering if I should put in elves like Thornweald Archer or Jagged-Scar Archers or if something like Spidersilk Armor would do? This deck can get a TON of tokens out so Jagger Scar Archers is tempting, but I just want to make sure I'm being efficient with my choices.
I play against friends, so any card is game legality-wise.
Honestly it really depends! They all have multiple decks they swap around with, so some games are more flyer-heavy than others.
Having Blunt the Assault helps to gain back any health lost until I can dish out a lot of tokens to kill folks, but as I found last night one-on-one against an aura deck, if there's one big beefy flyer out that I can't deal with quickly, I'm dead. :P
I'll check out yours for sure!
March 1, 2013 8:03 p.m.
Then I say go with Spidersilk Armor. You should have enough beefy guys to block
March 1, 2013 8:05 p.m.
Yeah, definitely. I'll order some up then!
Your deck looks great to me, but I'm still fairly new to MTG so I may be missing things a vet might catch, ha. Helix Pinnacle has got to be a fun card with things like Doubling Season and Gaea's Cradle out for quick counter generation when you can't get Nissa Revane's final ability!
March 1, 2013 8:16 p.m.
there are so many ways each card interacts with each other, its crazy.
March 1, 2013 10:43 p.m.
LOL woops, stepped away from the computer! I upvoted!
Oh and a question, too. How do you find Collective Unconscious to be vs Genesis Wave? I like that you're able to put all permanents straight onto the battlefield with Genesis, but since you're running one more Gaea's Cradle and four more Priest of Titania than I am I can see Collective being really useful there with more chances for big mana draws to get everything out of your hand.
I'm finding even in this deck there are a lot of nice interactions between cards as well, mainly in either big guys through +1/+1 counters or a huge lot of tokens. I can't wait to play this more and see what neat combos I can end up with. :)
March 2, 2013 1:33 a.m.
Both are good. Yet again it all depends. I use Collective Unconscious so I don't accidentally put 2 legendaries or 2 Planeswalkers on at the same time. If you run one copy of each legendary and only one planeswalker, Genesis Wave is better.
tempest says... #2
It all depends on your play group. Do they play a lot of flyers (Spidersilk Armor)? Or is it just a few if flyers(Jagged-Scar Archers)?
March 1, 2013 7:58 p.m.