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BMoor's Magic The
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Deck Garage
First of all, I just want to apologize for not writing in more often as of late. Things in my life outside of Magic have been quite hectic lately, but I'm still here and I'm still fixing decks. Like this one, for instance...
It's good to see a deck with snow lands, but I'm not exactly sure why your lands are snow-covered. For the Skreds you used to run, but why now? No reason, it seems. But Skred should definitely come back in. It basically reads, "R: Destroy target creature."
This already looks like a really cool deck (no pun intended) with all that land searching for a surprise Panglacial Wurm. So how can we improve it? By fixing the problem you mentioned: difficulties against quich weenie rushes. I can see your point; you've got very few creatures. Honestly, I think the main problem in this deck is the color distribution. Just look at the lands: a 15/4/4 split for green, red, and blue. I bet I know why your deck struggles against quicker decks; because it spends the first three turns trying to get mana and find a Kudzu to pump up. I think the best solution here is to drop a color. Obviously green isn't going anywhere. Red is giving you Disintegrate, Blood Moon, and Tribal Flames. Blue is giving you Telling Time and Compulsive Research. I know running three colors makes Tribal Flames better, but think about it: in your deck, the most damage the Flames will do is 3 if you have all three lands out. You could just as easily run Volcanic Hammer and deal a guaranteed 3 damage even on nothing but Mountains. And right now Blue is only giving you card drawing, but card drawing is best when it can help get you the mana you need, not when it's the reason you need mana. Besides all that, green can draw cards pretty well, too, so Blue gets dropped altogether. Tribal Flames becomes Skred, Telling Time becomes Ohran Viper (also a creature that can block most of Boros's 2/2's) and Compulsive Research becomes Harmonize (or, if you can't afford Harmonize, Carven Caryatid or Citanul Woodreaders-- also good blockers. But Harmonize really is better if you can get it). And the Islands become... Mountains or Forests? I'd actually say Mountains, so you can be assured of getting one of each land faster. Only practice will give you the appropriate land distribution, but a 15/8 split sounds about right for getting a first-turn Forest.
Now, about that transformative sideboard you asked for. I was actually thinking that a sideboard could turn this deck into a dedicated land destruction deck. With Llanowar Elves, you could hope for a second turn Stone Rain followed by a third turn Icefall or Wreak Havoc. A sideboard like that would look like: 4 Stone Rain, 4 Wreak Havoc, 4 Mountain (since you'll need to sideboard out some Forests to ensure red mana early enough for land destruction to matter), and 3 of whatever large creatrue you would want to use as a finisher (I recommend Rumbling Slum or some sort of Dragon). You'd probably side out some land search (Rampant Growth and Search for Tomorrow), the Wurm, and maybe Disintegrate since you won't be searching up as many lands.
Another way your sideboard could transform you is by turning you much more aggro. If you sided out your non-Elf mana acceleration and the Wurm, you could go for a quick rush against a slower deck with a sideboard of 4 Burning-Tree Shaman, 3 Uktabi Drake, 4 Giant Growth, and 4 Scab-Clan Mauler. Or similar aggressive Gruul weenies; i think you get the idea. It depends on what you want to do and on what sort of decks you expect to face, and on what sort of strategy you think you'd most like to be able to use as a Plan B.
That should cover everything here. Thanks for the E-mail, Jordan, and thanks for showing us such an interesting deck. I honestly have not seen one like it yet in the entire time I've been a mechainic here (or at least I don't remember seeing one like it.) I'm really glad I was able to help you with this one, and I hope my advice has helped you. Good luck!
~BMoor
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