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This Elven deck is focused around getting lot's of cheap creatures and tokens out while doing some combo healing.Elvish Archdruid, Imperious Perfect, Elvish Promenade, Wren's Run Vanquisher, and Rhys the Exiled are the more expensive cards in the deck. I welcome all input on what to possibly replace them with.
Getting Tokens Onto The Board!Imperious Perfect, Lys Alana Huntmaster, Presence of Gond, and Elvish Promenade are all great cards for getting tokens onto the field - each token usually costing zero to one mana.Healing!Essence Warden is the earliest healing card and works well since it heals you each time a creature enters the battlefield. When Rhys The Exiled attacks you gain life equal to how many elves you control - gonna be a lot.Power!Elvish Archdruid and Imperious Perfect both give all your elves +1/+1, and with Bramblewood Paragon giving all your creatures additional tokens and trample, it's a pretty powerful combo. Wren's Run Vanguard is a cheap costing great card with death-touch, played with Ezuri, Renegade Leader and you can regenerate Wren's each turn, a pretty a sick combo. (Thanks DedWards for the advice on that one)Door of Destinies when used with the creature type, "Elves", gives your creatures a huge advantage. Drove of Elves is a card that is extremely powerful mid to late game when you'll have a lot of elves on the field, having it's attack and health equal to the number of elves you control. Talara's Battalion is a low mana card that is just good; allowing you to get backup in mid-game. Joraga Warcaller can grant your elf army of 1/1's a huge amount of power mid game.Mana!Elvish Mystic is a great turn one 1/1 elf which can give you one additional forest to give you that lead early on. Elvish Archdruid gives you one green mana for each elf creature you control, played with Elvish Promenade and you could double the number of elves you have. If Door of Destinies is on the field at the time you've pretty much won yourself the game.Situation Cards!Elvish Branchmender is an interesting card, allowing you to turn a forest into a creature if you have a surplus of mana. Heritage Druid is a 1/1 creature that gives three mana for tapping three creatures. Gilt-Leaf Ambush is a surprise card which gets elf tokens onto the field quickly. Presence of Gond gives a creature the ability to summon more elves. Nissa's Chosen is just a good elf warrior with 2/3 for the mana cost of two forests.
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Never drop the 'lords', the pump they supply is very important. I'd drop Rhys to 2x or 3x, depending on how important he is for you. He's a legend, so any extras in hand is just a dead card. Ezuri, Renegade Leader is an awesome card that I put in almost all my elf decks. Besides the regen that works awesomely with Wren's Run Vanquisher, the 'Overrun' effect is a nice finisher. Gilt-leaf Ambush is a nice surprise card.Heritage Druid is another good source of mana. You can tap creatures with summoning sickness to its effect, giving all those tokens you got off of Elvish Promenade another use.Bramblewood Paragon gives all the elf tokens and some of the non token elves, like Imperious Perfect and Wren's Run Vanquisher, a +1/+1 counter when they enter the battlefield. And as long as Bramblewood Paragon is alive, any creature you control with a +1/+1 counter will have trample, regardless of how they got the counter. Joraga Warcaller is an awesome 'lord' to pump all that mana into, and Bramblewood Paragon gives him a 'free' +1/+1 counter :p If you're looking for a card to drop, Wolf-Skull Shaman is the first one that I'd remove. It produces Wolves that don't get pumped by anything.
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Thanks for the advice! I'm not too used to playing green, so I wasn't really sure of some of the better cards. I was trying to build a somewhat cheaper deck, but I think I'll just create a new one with some of the cheaper cards.
I've been playing elves since Lorwyn / Shadowmoor, so most of my advice comes from personal experience. Because I've been playing elves since then, I already have the cards, so I forget that some of them have higher than expected price tags :| Currently, my token variant only costs about $82 and the Warrior based, aggro variant is about $67. So ya, not excessively pricey, but still a high-ish price.Some people may suggest stuff like Craterhoof Behemoth, which is a good card and a good choice, but I just prefer to pump the 8 mana needed for it into Ezuri's 'Overrun' effect. But that's partially me being stubborn , and partially because I don't own any Craterhoof Behemoth :/
I'm fairly new to Magic so I've tried to keep the costs of my decks really low. At least until I figure out what playstyle and decks are my favorite to use, and thus pay more for. I had a lot of fun creating a mass healing deck revolving around Serra Avatar (health and attack equal to your health). I would really appreciate any insight you have on it. http://www.mtgvault.com/bighonkingguns/decks/embodied-persona-budget/
I guess I should have read this string of comments before posting my own lol, oops!
I love the elvish tribal decks, they are so much fun c:I run a deck similar to this if youd like to check it out and give feedback on or get ideas from as well, but one thing I would recommend is fitting in 3 fauna shaman and 1 craterhoof in there as a finisher just to make sure you have a win con, other wise it looks pretty spiffy :) good job :)
Thanks for the tips! I was trying to avoid any cards that were too expensive, but I might trade for or somehow get those cards eventually ^_^
I told you others would suggest Craterhoof Behemoth. Like I said, it's a good card, I just personally (and stubbornly) prefer Ezuri, Renegade Leader :p
lol, I actually run both in mine anyways haha
If I had both i would gladly do the same ^_^ For now I'm thinking that I'll choose the cheaper option and wait until I can trade for a Craterhoof.