So is this happening again this year? I noticed its on the calender for this year, but the linked thread is from last year.

You should set up a paypal account so some of us outside of the Illinois area can donate!

Looks pretty sweet in its current form, how is it running for you?

Someone runs a similar deck to this at the place I go for Friday night magic, only he uses lotus blooms to get the seismic out, uses damnation out of the sideboard, and has more counter spells.

I don't dislike Murkfiend, the problem with it is like the other lieges in eventide (besides creakwood) its too pricey unless you're running mana accelerators like Llanowar elves. Its ability is great though as aside from pumping your creatures, it lets you attack and then have them ready to block.

If you want firespout in the deck you're going to have to run vivid lands, reflecting pools, and some of the colorfixing lands from eventide/shadowmoor. You could even cut the majority of green only lands in your deck since you only need green for goyf and naturlize.

Maybe a manabase like this:

4 reflecting pool
4 blue vivid land (forget the name)
4 flooded grove
4 cascade bluffs
4 yavimaya coast
3 desert

That way cryptic will pretty much always be online (unless you draw all those deserts), you have plenty of sources for green for goyf and naturlize, and just enough red for when you need to firespout.

I know that's a pricey mana-base to collect, but I think it'd work very well for you.

Also maybe move naturlize to the sideboard and replace it with a tribal counter spell like sages dousing or faerie trickery to have a tribal spell to power the goyf?

If you're only going to run 20 land than yes, cryptic command could be risky, but  its also very powerful as it lets you bounce something in a pinch, tap all their creatures to perhaps prevent an all out attack, and can draw you a card. Dream fracture is very good in my opinion, and if you aren't going to run cryptic or broken ambitions, than running sages dousing and dream fracture would counter stuff and help you draw to what you need, so those might actually be the better play for you. I'd think about fitting some grimoire theives in there somehow though, those things can be a real beast plus useful counter at times, and it has great synergy with memory sluice. Memory sluice and conspie with two theives= mill 14 for one blue. If you ever decide to splash white, judge of currents is a must.

Probably not much you can do there unless you want to splash in read for firespouts and such, or white for other mass removal. You could also try and replace some islands with more non-basics.

7-8 maybe? Cryptic commands are good if you have them/can get them, and then use either sages dousing (for card draw) or broken ambitions (which probably fits better in your deck for the potential mill. You could always use rune snags as well if cryptics are too hard to come by for you.

This is the deck I'm currently running in type 2 tournys:


Main deck

24x Plains


4x Wilt-leaf liege
3x kitchen finks
4x Knight of Meddowgrain
4x Nip Gwyllion
4x Edge of the Divinity
4x Divinity of Pride
1x Deathbringer Liege
2x Figure of Destiny
4x Unmake
3x Oblivion Ring
3x Crib Swap
3x Stillmoon Caviliars

Sideboard(Haven't used this sideboard yet but this is what I'm thinking):

3x Endless Horrizens
4x Runed Halo
1x Oblivion Ring
1x Crib Swap
3x Wrath of God or Hallowed Burial(for protection against quicker wheenie decks)
3x Moonglove extract (for pesky opposing stillmoons)


So far the deck has worked very well for me, only lost two matches, one each in separate 2nd place finishes at FNM. Lost to Doran in a close match, and swans by a single turn. Not sure how the deck will do against faeries, yet to play one. Toast I think it'd do well against since there's plenty of good creatures in there not bothered by firespout.  Any suggestions for improvement welcome!

Really liking this build a lot better, much more versatile. Maybe replace cancel with consign to dreams? Same casting cost, and it gets you a card (though it makes your opponent draw a card too). Obviously some color fixing lands would be good (yavimaya coast, flooded grove). Maybe add some summoners pacts to get to the tender? I'd also suggest negates for a nice cheep counterspell to protect against removal pointed at the bloom tender. Overall though, I see a lot of potential.

What's you're biggest problem against merfolk? Lord of Atlantis or do they just get out too many creatures for you to deal with?

Its a nice combo, but the problem is bloom tender is too easy to kill. early on in the game before you can get your  combo going. Aside from all the mono-red decks out there with burn, you've got unmake, crib-swaps, nameless inversion, etc. that can kill the bloom tender before you can get your combo going. If I were you I'd try making the deck with some blue in it so you can give more protection for the tender in the form of shroud and counter magic, or maybe combine this combo with quillspike combo into one deck so that you have two creatures you can infinitely pump. Very nice deck list to start from though.

I've tried a build of that take with savor the moment, didn't really work too well. You're better off with more counter magic and such in its place.

Good to know! At regionals back in july someone kept tapping my cards to 90 degrees (just my attacking creatures) and was a real jerk about it, but I didn't want to bother a judge with it.

That was my thought, figured I'd make sure while I was on here, thanks!

I'm not sure if slightly diagonally was the old way for sure, just how I've been doing it since the revised days since that's what the tap symbol looked like back then.

So I'm pretty anal about the way I shuffle after a game, usually taking out all the land and doing the whole 2 cards - land thing to equally divide land through my deck ( and then of course doing ample shuffling and offering my opponent the opportunity to do the same). I this strictly speaking, legal? No one has ever complained about it but I thought I'd just make sure.

Also, I was unable to find anything about this in dci policies, but are you allowed to tap cards the old way? (meaning slightly diagonally and not sideways)

Thanks in advance

I agree with pretty much everything the last poster said. I would splash  in there, so you can use judge of currents and the schoolmaster, and then you can replace boomerang with oblivion ring or crib swap, and you can also use sig if you so desire to protect your milling merfolk.