![]() Our mana base is designed for this, and it comes up often. This is not the case at all here.Ī top decked Beck // Call does THIS:Įight mana is a lot, but it’s not too much for an Elf combo deck. See, the traditional disadvantage of Glimpse of Nature is that if you draw it on an empty board, it does nothing. It also means Forbidden Orchards and fetches for Dryad Arbor. This means Vendilion Cliques and it means Pestermites. First of all, it triggers off of every creature. Intruder Alarm goes nuts with Forbidden Orchard and all of our fetchlands. BOOM!Ĭloudstone Curio is good, but it requires more to get going than Intruder Alarm. If we do, maybe we have an extra Elf, and maybe we can get Craterhoof Behemoth for a clean turn 3 kill. ![]() Yes, we can lose to Summoner’s Pact, but presumably we will have more than 6 total cards by our turn 3. This is a mulligan to 6 with no additional draws. Tap Forbidden Orchard, untap Joraga Treespeaker, tap Joraga Treespeaker, fetch for Dryad Arbor, untap Joraga Treespeaker, Summoner’s Pact for Ant Queen. Tap Joraga Treespeaker, tap Breeding Pool, play Intruder Alarm. Do you see it?īreeding Pool, Joraga Treespeakerįorbidden Orchard, level Joraga Treespeaker. ![]() And it is vulnerable to a spot removal spell. It doesn’t do all that much in a low resource game where all we have is 1 fetchland grabbing a Dryad Arbor and a couple of cards in hand. But it requires a lot of resources to get this going. Curio can’t even come close to that.Ĭurio can generate infinite mana with Heritage Druid and Nettle Sentinel, it can gain infinite life with Essence Warden, and it can draw the deck with Elvish Visionary. Intruder Alarm can set us off with only 1 Llanowar Elves in play and 1 spare mana available. I will explain why.Ĭurio is powerful yes, but I think Intruder Alarm is much better in this deck. There is certainly room for improvement (especially the sideboard), but every card is in here for a reason. I want to play Elf Combo, so I’m going to play Elf Combo! Modern Intruder Alarm Elves Personally, I’m all right with that, at least for a while. The deck also produces lots of games where you stumble for a turn and get swept back to 1 land. The deck is crazy fast, and produces memorable win-out-of-nowhere games. We’ve also found a deck that gets smashed by Pyroclasm a lot. What I’ve found is a deck that produces a staggering amount of turn 3 kills. I know many of you will play the deck anyway, win or lose. I know many of you are disappointed that the deck hasn’t established itself at all. I know many of you want to play Elf Combo in Modern. ![]() It might mean Elf Combo in Eternal formats. Some of us find ourselves returning to the same archetype over and over. It might mean missing out on chances to play on the highest level Magic circuit, but I will never burn out doing this. When I build something that I just have to prove, I’ll take it to a tournament. When I go to a tournament with a purpose. And THAT is when I have a great chance of winning. And when it comes to life, and it LIVES, and it WINS, THAT is when I go to a tournament. When an idea is promising, I have to bring it to life. Even now, when I workout, drive, whatever, gears are turning. My binders were filled with 4x deck lists. I used to sit in the back of class and build decks in my head. Either I build a brew in time or I play someone else’s deck. When I find myself with a Magic tournament coming up, and no deck, I am under immense pressure. It’s not mandated that I play in Magic tournaments. See, I never really saw it as “skipping” tournaments because I don’t have to go. I even “skipped” the 2011 Magic: the Gathering World Championships, and consequently fell off the Pro Tour. I have “skipped” Grand Prix within 3 hours drive. I have “skipped” many PTQs without qualification. I have “skipped” many important tournaments in my career. I love to brew, and the rest flows from there. I am very much a casual player by nature, and a competitive player by happenstance. I think one of the things that has fueled my success as a deck designer since day one is my detachment from tournaments.
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