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harbingerofthevoid
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posted October 19, 2020 04:37 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for harbingerofthevoid Click Here to Email harbingerofthevoid Send a private message to harbingerofthevoid Click to send harbingerofthevoid an Instant MessageVisit harbingerofthevoid's Homepage  Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View harbingerofthevoid's Have/Want ListView harbingerofthevoid's Have/Want List
Resurrecting the DH&C Forum

Here's what I've been running to good results. Mana base seems messed up. Any thoughts, opinions or ideas? Shoot!

creatures
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Glasspool Mimic
4 Quirion Dryad
4 Faerie Vandal
4 Sprite Dragon

Spells
4 Shock
4 Opt
4 Into the Roil
1 Fateful End
4 Whirlwind Denial
3 Bubble Snare
4 Frantic Inventory

planeswalkers
2 The Royal Scions

land
1 Temple of Mystery
1 Raugrin Triome
2 Thornwood Falls
1 Ketria Triome
1 Temple of Epiphany
4 Fabled Passage
2 Forest
2 Mountain
3 Island
1 Riverglide Pathway
1 Rugged Highlands
1 Cragcrown Pathway

The 20 lands hasn't seemed to be an issue with such a low curve and draw. It's more the mix of lands. Losing Shocklands hurt, usually keeping me a turn getting on board.

Glasspool Mimic can probably go. It's great getting 5 copies of a win-con but hasn't really been drawn enough to make a difference.

I love that Into the Roil is back. [Can] trigger all 3 win cons.

Fateful End over better 3cmc removal simply cause it can hit a player.

Bubble Snare has been awesome locking down creatures and triggering 2 win-cons.

Whirlwind Denial feels like a pet card but in a 3-color mana base, it fits easily and destroys all the mutate triggers.

The Royal Scions... I had run the Phasing Terefi, but it's cantrip is great for filtering. It's +2 First Strike Trample has been amazing.

So playing it I always fetch for blue if I have at least 1 blue n the board. If I have RU, i fetch G etc... Unless I don't have a Dryad in hand. Being only 4 G cards, I can win with UR.

All the bounce is great with the amount of mono-W I see. They lock down my Dryad, I do stuff for 4 turns, bounce the [pacifism] and kill them.

Anyways, this was always a cool deck and way back when I ran it along with ProsBloom, Wake, Rifter and Slide in Extended days.

Any thoughts just to talk decks?

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posted October 20, 2020 12:04 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for AEther Storm Click Here to Email AEther Storm Send a private message to AEther Storm Click to send AEther Storm an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Nice! Good effort, although this particular forum never really got off the ground

Have you tried Lorescale Coatl? I run it in my Arena U/G deck and it's nuts. Fair enough, that runs a whole lot more draw but still. It becomes a threat real quick and with Opt and other instant draw effects it's a tricky block. I run Rousing Read with it.

How are the Faerie Vandals working out? I always cut them because they seem to slow.

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harbingerofthevoid
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lol I had Coatl and Rousing Read in my first draft. Most of the time Coatl was just a Goyf meat stick. I swapped him for Uro until the ban. That got nuts but I also had access to Shocklands then too so it helped a ton.

The Vandals can be slow to get going but having flash to +1 Dryad in a trick is cool. The evasion is what works and the extra 1 toughness comes in handy.

I dropped Rousing Read for The Royal Scions and dig it.

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posted October 21, 2020 01:28 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for AEther Storm Click Here to Email AEther Storm Send a private message to AEther Storm Click to send AEther Storm an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Yeah I see your point. I personally also run Jolrael to get 2/2 kittens to chump or swing away, but again, I draw a lot of cards

Looks nice!
how about Fire Prophecy instead of your other burn? I know it doesn't target everything but it can draw you a card.

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harbingerofthevoid
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So I've dropped Fateful End for 1 Vadrok, Apex of Thunder ad when it hits... it hits.
 
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posted November 04, 2020 11:48 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for AEther Storm Click Here to Email AEther Storm Send a private message to AEther Storm Click to send AEther Storm an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
How about dropping the Thornwood Falls for 2 additional Temples? Although I respect the life gain can actually win you games (it did last week for me on Arena, winning at 1 life the turn after I played such a land), I'm more of a fan of Scry. It can really help keeping a 2-land hand when you're on the draw.

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