PROGENITUS DECK?

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Posted on March 29, 2012, 7:10 p.m. by TLBunny

Hello everyone, i gave a lot of effort on this deck and wanted to share with you and share the tech behind the deck: deck:my-fnm-progenitus ! =)

MY FNM Progenitus DECK

With 4 proxy limit= Natural order , My friends thought the deck looked like Pod decks where all the creatures are one-of s. Well i thought it was a good idea to do like this, since i can both fetch my creatures and play them ignoring their color.

DECK TECH:

BIG Creatures:

1. Blazing Archon : This card does really good jobs when i get Concordant Crossroads on the table, so it seriously benefits me. Plus, it proves to be a good stall against aggro decks if i failed to grab my Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite.
2. Blightsteel Colossus is just a bomb again, synced with Concordant Crossroads, that my opponents think that "Oh, i have 14 life left from Woodfall Primus i have plenty of time lets leave 1 blocker behind.." and BAM! you're dead. Oh and, uhm, whispers he is indestructible.
3. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite is another card against aggro decks which is a bad match-up against us. Plus, if we get some way stuck on damage, think, those elves? All swinging for 3-4 damage individually, each turn. Very low chance potential win condition.
4. Empyrial Archangel is a 2-of as you might already saw. It is an answer to whole a lot of decks, you cant even imagine. So to increase its abundance in draws by a factor 2, that card is joining us as 2 copies against 1 copies of each other creatures. Kind of stressed against deathtouch creatures tho.
5. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, i will just say: Concordant Crossroads. Huh.? Clapping Sound, oh thank you very much indeed. No further comments. (Note: Pray your opponent won't be using o-rings against your Emrakul here.)
6. Progenitus is self explanatory. (I hate other people when they use this phrase in their descriptions.)
7. Woodfall Primus is too good for 2 reasons: 14.a It is a green creature so it is a viable target for both of my instant-sorcery creature put-ups, for its effect. 14.b When Primus is on the battlefield, even if i cant establish a green creature to sacrifice for Natural Order, Primus is a good target since he has persist so I get 3 for one, a new Primus, another non-creature permanent destroyed and a brand new Progenitus .

ACCELERATION

1. Devoted Druid, Llanowar Elves accelerator package is here for 2nd turn Game Preserve, 3rd turn Natural Order or Dramatic Entrance. And another side of them is to actually give Natural Ordersome creatures to eat.

TUTORING

1. Fauna Shaman and Worldly Tutor have both same jobs but different applications. They both fetch up creatures BUT i use these two in 2 different situations: 9.a With Fauna Shaman, i use her with Elvish Piper of course. it's a shock on my opponents when i go like: Fauna Shaman , Discard Elves, Get Progenitus , Elvish Piper , Block. =) 9.b With Worldly Tutor, i use him with Game Preserve. When i feel he will draw a non-land, like when he repeatedly dropped lands and whined about no non-lands and stuff i just fetch a good creature on my library in my upkeep, and watch and pray for miracles. When it works, it is GG.

CORE

1. Dramatic Entrance and Natural Orderare our core cards. They serve the great work of putting giant creatures on the battlefield. These can get much threatening for my opponent under a certain condition which i will cover later on in the description. Another main card doing the same job but slightly better by putting a creature card on the battlefield regardless of its colours: Elvish Piper. Very good card indeed.

UTILITY

1. Concordant Crossroads is a good enchantment overall explained with creatures above. The reason it is a one-of is because it can prove to be a great downside for me if I fail to assemble my stalling or creating a situation that they can't attack even with the haste. So it is here for surprises and game winning.
2. Dryad Arbor singleton of this was necessary for 2 main reasons: 11.a You can fetch it with both Fauna Shaman and Worldly Tutor in case of a mana screw. 11.b It is a viable sacrifice target for natural order if needed desperately.
3. Game Preserve is an alternate way of getting monsters onto the battlefield. They do not need to be the huge ones, which are creating 1-3rd of the creature base, any other creature went onto the battlefield make me dig my library 1 more. And sometimes, when an Emrakul lands, you just look at the deck and smile, and swing for the win.
4. Steely Resolve is another 1-of which serves as a barrier for my elves. You probably noticed that my piper has only 1 toughness for 4, which makes it very volatile. So in order to shield her, this card is very useful. Oh , and btw you don't always have to say elves here, you may want to protect your Elesh Norn against Path to Exile, so you just call "Praetor" and watch your opponents drool.

5. Piper's Melody is your late game answer for wrath effects, which none of my games did go that long. Still , an effective one-of in the deck.

6. Mosswort Bridge is just a good land with uber-abilities for our cause.

7. And now, it is the BOMB. Painter's Servant was a good addition for this deck, making it a viable deck which can fetch any creature on the battlefield regardless of its' colors when you call green when it enters the battlefield. I don't know you, but i LOVED the idea. =)

SIDEBOARDING:

Very straight-forward actually, Vexing Shusher and Summoning Trap against control, Inkwell Leviathan against removal, Feldon's Cane against where you think it fits, Krosan Grip against any king of enchantment shenanigans, and Phage the Untouchable for some laughs.You MUST playtest this =D

Moli, Moli, Moli, Moli is a fun deck =)