Really funny creature deck!

[Carnac]

Well, I really like my Sliver Deck. It’s a pure creature deck. No Æther Vials, no Counterspells, just pure Slivers, but still extremely lethal and funny to play. And I didn’t thought I would find a creature deck funnier than this. Usually I relate funny decks to combo-decks, rather than "Throw-down-creatures-and-attack"-decks. But now Ive finished my Elvish Deck. Almost all foiled out except for a few ones. And god damn… I can’t believe how funny this deck is. I played it for the first time today.

And what makes my Elvish Deck so funny?

First of all, there’s lot of action. You have to keep count on numerous counters, dices and tokens. Counters on Nissa, Counters on Garruk,  Counters on Joraga, Dice on Drove of Elves, Dice on Jagged-Scar Archers. Tokens for Garruk, Tokens for Imperious Perfect, Tokens for Voice of the Woods and constantly searching library for Nissa’s Chosen. You hardly believe it, but it’s not unusual that you end up with one or two 12/12 Drove of Elves and/ or 12/12 Jagged-Scar Archers in round 6 or 7. And sometimes even 15/15, 17/17 or the like. And in round 6+ you will most likely have a Nissa Revane able to give you 16+ life each round. Think about it! 16+ life every round. That’s insane! In one of the games my opponent had a 10/10 Lord of Extinction drop in round 6 or 7. Something that usually means “game over”, especially if  you are stuck with 1/1 Elves. But he simply had to sacrifice it to block my Drove of Elves which had grown 17/17. When I made this deck, I thought my winning conditions would be either a lot of elves with Garruk Overrun, or a Nissa Ultimate resolving. I had absolutely no idea that in most games I would win by attacking with 15/15-20/20 Elfs. When people mention elves, the picture of a 1/1 Llanowar Elf is usually what comes to my mind. And then a 20/20 Elf… WHAT THE F*CK?

One of the games I had Nissa Ultimate go off. That was really crazy. First, about 30 Elves was entering the battlefield straight from the library. Second, at end of opponents turn, I made like eight 7/7 green elemental creatures with Voice of the Woods and Ambush Commander, then third on my turn, released from summoning sickness, I was attacking with an army so huge, Ive never seen anything like that before in my history of Magic. Somewhere between 45-50 Elves along with eight 7/7 Elementals was attacking, with the Ambush Commander having turned even the Forests into Elfs as well. Unfortunately I did not have Garruk down, to give it all +3/+3 Overrun,that would have been the ultimate attack, but the Elvish army was doing their job pretty well without.

It is obvious that this deck is not tournament competitive, as it is very vulnerable to Wrath of God, Damnation or the like. But if you’re looking for a funny deck, this is absolutely worth trying out. It is for sure one of the funniest decks I’ve tried. And if not for the fun, then just to see your opponent getting totally owned by that 17+/17+ Elf or overrunned by the hugest army ever seen.

Here is setup I’ve chosen for my Elvish Deck:

4 x Fyndhorn Elves
4 x Llanowar Elves
3 x Joraga, Warcaller
4 x Nissa's Chosen
4 x Viridian Zealot
4 x Imperious Perfect
3 x Jagged-Scar Archers
2 x Elvish Archdruid
4 x Drove of Elves
4 x Nissa Revane
2 x Garruk Wildspeaker
2 x Nath's Elite
2 x Ambush Commander
2 x Voice of the Woods
16 x Forests


Try it out! You wont believe how funny this deck is!


-Carnac, Wizard of the Old School

[Carnac]

To those who doubt the power of this deck, here is a typical start:

Round 1: Play Forest, Tap Forest for  , Play Fyndhorn Elves
Round 2: Play Forest, Tap 2 Forest and Fynhorn for  , Play Elvish Archdruid
Round 3: Play Forest, Tap 3 Forest and Fyndhorn for  , Play Nissa's Chosen and Viridian Zealot.
             Tap Elvish Archdruid for 4x , Play Nissa Revane, use Nissa Revane to fetch another Nissa's Chosen
Round 4: Tap 3 forest + Fyndhorn Elves for  , play Drove of Elves
Tap Elvish Archdruid for  play Ambush Commander.

You now, -IN ROUND 4- have a 11/11 Drove of Elves, and you can still choose to use Nissa Revane to either fetch another Nissas Chosen to make Drove of Elves 12/12 or you can simply get 20 life from Nissa Revane. A 11/11 Elf and +20 life on round 4... that aint bad huh?
And its not that the example above is a perfect start happening in only 1 out of 100 games. There is actually a fair chance to get a start like that.

Yes I know, there should probably be 4 Elvish Archdruids in the deck, but I like the deck this way.

-Carnac

[Mr. Fantastic]

Regarding Voice of the Woods: I've long been a fan of this card and commend you on your Timmy-ish use of it in this deck.  This list looks really familiar, actually.  Do you play on MWS?

Also, no Overrun? Coat of Arms? I think both of these cards are just so much better than Ambush Commander in basically all situations.

[Carnac]

I got the Overrun in Garruk.

There are several reasons I dont use Coat of Arms:
1: When I make "for fun" creature decks, I strive to have no artifacts, enchantments, instants and sorceries, because I go for... A creature deck. For the same reason I have left out Æther Vial and counterspells in my Sliver deck.
2: I wanted as many cards in the deck as possible to be ELFS. No doubt Coat of Arms would fit in this deck, but.. Coat of Arms has one probolem: It aint an Elf
The only non-Elf cards in this deck are the Planeswalkers. But I like playing with the Planeswalkers, cause it adds an aspect to the game, making it more various and fun to play. And since Nissa searches for Elfs, and her Life-giving ability also depends on Elfs, she is a perfect Planeswalker for an Elf deck. Garruk I' ve added for 2 reasons: First, the Overrun that you ask for, and second because I just like playing with Garruk. He is a cool planeswalker. Its a shame he aint making 3/3 Elves instead of beasts though. However the Beasts are still able to boost Drove of Elves.

You might be right about Ambush Commander, but I just like the fact he turns even the forests into Elves. This somehow "completes" the Elf theme, being able to have absolutely ALL permanents on the battlefield being Elves, cept the Planeswalkers. Also, once the Forests are Elfs, they boost/ gets boosted by both Joraga, Imperious, Jagged, Archdruid, Nissa Revane and Drove of Elves.

I dont know what Timmy-ish is. Nor MWS. Maybe you can explain?

-Carnac

[Mr. Fantastic]

Timmy, Power Gamer explained by Maro.

MWS is Magic Workstation, a free application you can use to play MTG online. I like it a lot better than MTGO, personally.

Anyway, yeah, I see now why you wouldn't use coat in your deck.  Is Caller of the Claw not Elf-y enough since it creates bears instead of more elves? That's definitely a card I think your deck could use as a measure against Wrath/Damnation/Disk/Pyroclasm/other.