I'm thinking of making a Red Green deck kind of inspired by this - not standard legal, just for fun. Imagine, instead of flinging those tokens... http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?name=Ooze%20Garden Equip them, Giant growth them, and feed them into the ooze garden.
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Not a bad idea to splash white - but I would put at least a couple of basics in there so that you could fetch them with Sad Robot if you needed to. I see how losing See Beyond kind of forces you to do this. Actually seeing the swiftfoot boots kind of makes me slap myself a bit. (I kind of hate equipment decks, so I always overlook them) Ive been wracking my brain trying to find a way to protect Sheoldred in my own version of this (she's completely lynchpin to my own version) This is kind of totally perfect. Oblivion rings are totally sex too. Might want to throw in a few dispatches too though? (metalcraft is pretty easy to obtain here)
Not sure the two pods are needed with the forgemasters, but the absence of preordain/ponder might make adding one more necessary. I'll admit, mirrorworks and phyrexian metamorph kind of make me tumescent, the idea of being able to fetch - double - and sacrifice them is one of the things that makes this deck attractive to me. If anything I might put couple diablic tutor or another forgemaster in here over another pod. I really like the interaction between forgemaster and precursor golem, the fact that that combo will get you cooking just the same as drawing a birthing pod will is what allows me to get away with only 2 of them.
So a few weeks ago I decided I wanted to get into MTG again. I haven't played since the Invasion cycle, and lost all of my cards (o no!) Anyway, knowing what an expensive hobby this can be, I decided I just wanted to make myself a premium, strong, fun deck. This one caught my eye, it's got everything I love, control, consistency, and a shit your pants core combo. (Elesh Norn has this effect) I constructed and used this deck in a bunch of games this week, including some group play. It did pretty damn well (even against some not-legal-in-standard decks). However, I noticed that the decks that seemed to do the best in group play were decks that could get completely out of hand if given enough time. (And I couldn't deal with them) I love the flavor of the birthing pod, so I decided to tweak my own version for group play/ffa. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=217093 Control has limited use with 4 or 6 or 8 people in a game, so I instead opted for redundant options. Still definitely a work in process, I would love some help tweaking it before I actually make it. Most importantly, this deck could get absolutely crazy given enough time. The Praetors just wreck in FFA (even though they make you a huge target)
Edit - She's immune to terrify, not go for the throat :( Ah well, I still think it's not a bad idea. On the off chance having norn and 2 5/5s isn't a win, having Sheoldred AND Norn out surely is. (and fun too)
Come to think of it, I see no reason why you would need 2 Norns if you replaced one of them with Sheoldred. One of the only ways I see failing to win after popping her out is if she eats a go for the throat you can't manage to counter. Fine, that's why two Norns right? Or you could pop out Sheoldred, who is immune to the damn creature kills, and just pop Norn back onto the battlefield in the next round. (and keep bringing back your wurmcoils) If you wanted to play it REALLY safe you could run 1 Norn and 2 Sheoldred.
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