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I asked Wumps to build "Diet" 10L, a 10L Stompy deck built on a budget. He did a fantastic job with it, but I still cannot afford Gaea's Cradle. So following a conversation started in that deck, here's my 10L "Zero" built on an even tighter budget.
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Not feeling it with the GSZ man, but otherwise...It might just sorta work...
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I tested this against a few of my other decks and found that BoP and Werebear were essential to keeping the deck running, esp. after Winter Orb was in play. This caused problems because it dropped the amount of buff spells I was running, so I struck a balance by reducing the ramp and running GSZ and Llanowar Augur. It seems to function much better now.. so.. I mean, it's not half as competitive as "Full Flavor" 10L, but I think it'll do well in casual.
I am, by the way, still experimenting with this; though I'm doing so empirically. Early play tests were a bit skewed, I think, where I added more mana sources because I drew Winter Orb more than averages should allow. However, play tests this morning showed too many hands where BoP were completely useless. I'm dropping them and adding another Werebear and Mutagenic Growth. If a fourth Werebear proves the same as the BoP, I'm thinking about a pair of Spawnwrithes instead.
no spawnwrithes. it is a good card overall, but the only cards that cost 3 mana or higher should be spirit guides or cards that can be 'cheated' into play. you need to have 4 land grants, especially without gaea's cradle. i would take out one of the forests for a single dryad arbor. it can work some magic in 10L builds, and you can get some extra use out of gsz with it. werebear is a good choice because it can clamp itself early on for card drawing, and later on provide an inexpensive beater. i would not use 4 of them, but it is a good idea. hollow trees will obviously be slower than gaea's cradle, the land costs a lot for a reason, but it should work to a similar degree. :| if you are looking to increase the number of 1-drop cards then i think uktabi drake is well worth a mention. :) good luck! :D
I looked at Uktabi Drake and Giant Dustwasp for cheap fliers, but I did not like the echo cost nor the 4 turn wait on Dustwasp. I'll keep a fourth land grant in mind, but so far I haven't had very many issues with my mana base because of the Werebears, the "free" spells, and the "free" sources of mana. The only issues I've had have been with having 1 mana too few to cast GSZ every once in a while, but otherwise it's been a lot more help than it has been trouble. I dropped one Hollow Trees for Dryad Arbor, which brings me to another idea: Dryad Arbor + Quirion Ranger. The Ranger has provided amazing short term mana accel in my various elf decks, where I had fatal land pockets buried beneath several turns of other spells. I think that'd be more dependent on having the right variety of tutors though. But it's something I might try out after a while. If so it might look like this: -1 Hollow Trees, -1 Rogue Elephant, -1 Harvest Wurm, -1 Werebear, +1 Dryad Arbor, +1 GSZ, +1 Land Grant, +2 Quirion Ranger. ??
Err.. my numbers are off there, that'd put me at 61 cards.. anywho, something along those lines.. Thanks for the help! I think this will soon be ready for a live test against someone other than my fiance ;)