Surging with Elves
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Posted on April 23, 2012, 2:46 p.m. by UmbrotheUmbreon
I wanna find a way to put primal surge in my elf deck, deck:elf-powers-go. Any suggestions?
KorApprentice says... #3
Here ya go, smallest pic I could get:
It seems like it could be pretty broken, but I keep having these visions of the top card of your library being another [Primal Surge] and bye-bye 10 mana. It seems like it could be traumatic to either player depending on how well it goes.
April 23, 2012 7:06 p.m.
KorApprentice says... #4
If you put it as a 1 of in a deck with only permanents, it could be broken. You know, as long as you had an Urabrask the Hidden .
April 23, 2012 7:10 p.m.
UmbrotheUmbreon says... #5
Well, 10 mana is nothing. I once produced enough mana to kick Joraga Warcaller to kick it 58 times. I'm pretty sure getting 10 mana is easy.
April 23, 2012 8:20 p.m.
KorApprentice says... #6
The difficult part is the turn 4 clock and disruption your opponent is pitting against you. Sure, you might be producing near infinite mana on turn 8, but will the game get that far without dedicated control? And what if [Primal Surge] is countered? It's kind of an expensive spell to just think, 'ok, I'll cast another one later'. To actually be effective, you'd need to cast it by turn 5 and have enough permanents lined up to grab at least 7, then pray your opponent has not been holding a board wipe. Also, looking at your build, that is certainly not the best way to utilize [Primal Surge], in fact it would not be very helpful in such a deck at all. Especially with 8 other non-permanent cards, it would probably only net you 5 cards, most of which will be 1/1 elves. It's certainly a force to be reckoned with if you are using some janky combo like an all permanent deck, but otherwise it has little to no use.
April 23, 2012 8:49 p.m.
UmbrotheUmbreon says... #7
I saw it as a way of using Nissa's final ability except I can also pump out the Gaea's Anthems as well. Besuides more elves on the field = more death.
UmbrotheUmbreon says... #2
Crap....I see it is not in the database yet >.>
April 23, 2012 2:47 p.m.