[MTG] thebugwave.t2.dek

[DonRoyale]

This is such a stupid deck I made up. Why is it so stupid? Because it's about the most ridiculous deck in a vacuum perhaps ever concieved.

-28- Creatures

-4- Joraga Treespeaker
-4- Renegade Doppleganger
-4- Lotus Cobra
-4- Harabaz Druid
-4- Jwari Shapeshifter
-4- Hagra Diabolist
-4- Halimar Excavator

-4- Other Spells

-4- Genesis Wave

-24- Lands

-4- Misty Rainforest
-4- Verdant Catacombs
-8- Forest
-7- Island
-1- Swamp

-15- Sideboard

-4- Sadistic Sacrament
-4- Asceticism
-4- Spell Pierce
-3- Primeval Titan

The deck is in a rough development stage. I haven't tested it much, but regardless, this deck is hilarious.

The idea is to play out your Harabaz Druids, Treespeakers, Dopplegangers and Cobras, and ramp to an absurd Genesis Wave. You kill them twofold, with losing life from the Diabolist, and milling them to death with Halimar Excavator. Any Dopplegangers or Shapeshifters flipped become your kill con of choice. Halimar Excavator is obviously worse against UB Control and mono-green Eldrazi.

I'd like to see someone try this. On paper, some advice:

-When playing UB Control, never side out all four Excavators. The Elixir package will get you, but you autolose to Memoricide if they're allowed to resolve it, because they'll always name Diabolist with it.
-Joraga Treespeaker is your most powerful accelerant. Play it early, play it often. Everything important in this deck (Cobra, other Treespeakers, Harabaz Druid) costs two mana, and lets you curve out perfectly with it, and allows for explosively fast Genesis Waves. Something to keep in mind.
-The sideboard needs work. Primeval Titan is a placeholder, and Sadistic Sacrament is specifically for the Eldrazi Green matchup, because you'd rather resolve a Sacrament and almost totally kill them than resolve three Memoricide. :\ Asceticism is in against removal-heavy decks as a way to combat Lightning Bolt, Doom Blade and Day of Judgment. Spell Pierce is in against control decks.

Let me know what you think! =)

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

This deck is hilarious. I tried it out and it's really, really fun to get out big Genesis Waves and fill the board. However, you generally get mana-screwed really quickly if you don't get both Joraga Treespeaker and Harabaz Druid in your opening hand and you'll end up Waving for like 4 or 5, which is usually half lands and ends up terrible. :|

Furthermore, you lose really badly to Leyline of Sanctity which, my friends, being the douches they were, sided them into their decks which were all white (soldier weenie, bant allies and argentum-sobam quest). And white decks...well, they got a lot of creatures to block your nothing/nothings even if you try and swing. The only things that can do half-decent damage are the Diabolists and Cobras, which are kinda meh. Another thing is Sword of Body and Mind in decks built around artifacts (ie. with Stoneforge Mystic and/or Quest for the Holy Relic, meaning you can't Pierce it)

Haha, I did get a game where I managed to Genesis Wave twice in a row though, which was hilarious. Wave for about 8, getting a bunch of lands and ramp, then waving for 17...shame my opponent had a Leyline and took no damage. :( I could hardly swing him for much when he Nomads' Assembly'd twice and had more creatures than me anyway lol.

But, yeah, it's a fun deck. I don't really know what to suggest to counter Leyline of Sanctity (Naturalise lol?), but you might want to look into that? :D

 

[DonRoyale]

Back to Nature is a fine way of dealing with Leyline of Sanctity. Multiples can and will happen.

I've tested the deck against decks like Valakut, Vampires, and other Standard-level decks, and the problem always seems to be the hands where I either have all Clones and Diabolists and no ramp, or all ramp and no Genesis Waves. As such, I moved the Excavators to the sideboard in exchange for Primeval Titans. At least it's a card that's not useless, and makes the Dopplegangers just busted.

I'm glad you like the deck! I'm very honored you've tried it for yourself. =)

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

Hmm, I definitely need to learn more cards lol. Back to Nature also deals with Quest, Honor of the Pure and Militia's Pride, which is pretty nice. :D

Yeah, I got no proper standard-level decks to try it against. My friend's decks are Argentum-Quest, Extended Soldier Weenie and some dodgy Bant Allies, haha. I'm proxying this deck for the moment, and Primeval Titan is just going to make this all the more impossible for me to afford aha. More shouts of "YOU'RE TOTALLY GOING TO BUY THIS DECK" coming right up...

No probs; it's a pretty cool deck! :D

 

[DonRoyale]

The deck is dirt-cheap, though. The Druids and Shapeshifters are $2 a pop and the Dopplegangers are $1. The only real expensive cards in this deck are the Cobras (~$15, I think?) and the fetchlands (~$11). You can get inventive and use more basics if you'd like.