Elves Standard

by nick.ry on 25 April 2011

Main Deck (66 cards)

Sideboard (2 cards)

Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

The goal for me in making this deck was to take my Vintage Elves deck and make it playable for Standard.

Optimal Scenario:

Hand: Forest x2, Llanowar Elf x2, Treespeaker, Overwhelming Stampede, Asceticism

Turn 1: Forest, Llanowar Elf
Turn 2: Forest, Llanowar Elf, Treespeaker - Draw: Sylvan Ranger
Turn 3: Lv. Treespeaker, Sylvan Ranger, Forest - Draw: Nissa's Chosen
Turn 4: Asceticism, Nissa's Chosen - Draw: Might of the Masses
Turn 5: Might of the Masses, Overwhelming Stampede

Ideas or suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated, thank you!

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  • Tribal

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Elves Standard

I've been playing elves for awhile. Take out invoker, get Ezuri, Renegade Leader, and arbor elves. then the rest is up in the air. Mine was all creatures, 4 lead the stampedes and 18 lands.
Eldrazi monument is great for this deck, vengevines are also amazing. My problem is, there are too many board wiping spells in standard right now for elves to survive.

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Posted 25 April 2011 at 06:23

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try adding joraga warcaller to it.

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Posted 25 April 2011 at 08:32

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Thank you for the comments and suggestions thus far. Here are my thoughts on what you have said.

I can see clearly how Ezuri is a vast improvement over the Invokers as well as an easy way to include the no longer standard Overrun that I miss so much, so that's a clear and easy switch. It'll take a bit to get the change made in real life I think but it's definitely now on my to do list.

Vengevines are nice I agree but I don't like the idea of including a non elf creature in this particular deck, which that may be shortsighted of me, but I also run a green/white aura's deck that uses up most of my non elf creatures anyway.

I'd like to find a way to use Eldrazi Monument in this deck but I worry about the sacrifice cost. Do you know of a card with function similar to that of Llanowar Mentor that is legal in Standard? I feel like if I at least knew I has a way to creature creatures that it would be much more desirable.

Lastly, I think I'm going to switch out two Archdruids for two Warcallers, I feel like this switch doesn't take too much from my creature mana pool and that it expands my ability to add +'s to elves, making it a good choice.

Another thing I'm worried about though is the obvious weakness to flying. Switching to standard took a toll on my Spidersilk Armor as well as my Lys A Bowmasters. I guess the Monument provides a solution to this though other solutions would be nice to consider as well, I'll continue looking to see what I can come up with.

Thanks again for the input.

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Posted 25 April 2011 at 21:21

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