Thrashing Brontodon remains the go-to guy for dealing with artifacts and enchantments ( Search for Azcanta / Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin and the white exilers are still rampant, and now there's also Experimental Frenzy to contend with), and it's better main deck material than Reclamation Sage. Still, you have to make sure not to drop her after the demanding Beast, because that would raise her cost to a whopping seven mana, which is not a very reasonable amount for a deck that doesn't pack any ramp element beyond Llanowar Elves.Ĭonsequently, the rest of the support comes, by necessity, in creature form. She's so effective in everything she does, and with all the strategic and tactical options she brings to the board, she has become the sole noncreature card that most iterations of this Ferox-based archetype can afford to run. The Supporting ElementsĪs I correctly predicted (not that it was a hard a call to make), Vivien Reid is now one of the most successful planeswalkers of this Standard era. This results in a more straightforward, almost entirely non-interactive aggro build, one where you just cast body upon body then turn them sideways, without even the luxury of a combat trick to time right. Which, granted, still makes for a tough carapace to pierce, but it also pushes the Ferox player away from noncreature spells, because shutting off its downside taxes them too much. That hexproof keyword is not actually hexproof, it's just the Frost Titan ability.
For all intents and purposes, it's the fast beater I was wishing for as a replacement to what the previous incarnation of the deck was going to lose but it's also kind of a trap. It definitely feels powerful and can indeed win games by the sheer impact of its body alone. I'm personally of two minds about this guy, seeing it as the card that single-handedly caused the greatest excitement about the prospects of this new Stompy incarnation, then quickly turned them off. Thorn Lieutenant is in this sense a strong follow-up to a turn-one Collector, freeing the deck from an over-reliance on Llanowar Elves and playing more like an actual Modern Stompy deck by mimicking the beats and interdependence of Experiment One and Avatar of the Resolute.Īnd if Ghalta, Primal Hunger and Vine Mare are still around to strengthen the mid-game, the new sheriff in town is certainly Nullhide Ferox. The Collector is a very different card than the Rampager, though, being much worse as a late-game draw, but with a nice potential in the early stages of the game, considering the deck is likely to chain creatures that will keep increasing the Collector's body, either by hitting or leaving the battlefield. Another two cards that can be well utilized here are Isareth the Awakener and Reassembling Skeleton for some good value.In the new version, Steel Leaf Champion is still there to ensure an explosive turn two following a Llanowar Elves opening, while the legacy of Greenbelt Rampager as secondary turn-one action was picked up by Pelt Collector. Sultai MidrangeĪdditionally, you could use a reprinted Narcomoeba card and combine it with Demon of Catastrophes. Since both of these cards are very cheap this will allow you to play Molderhulk as early as turn three. Another one is Glowspore Shaman that also suuplies your graveyard with more creatures.
One of the most important cards of this deck except Molderhulk is Stitcher's Supplier that puts cards in your graveyard. Molderhulk is one of the best examples of the mechanic that will be seen in the following decks.
#Mtg standard meta vine mare series#
A new Undergrowth mechanic introduced in guilds of Ravnica can trigger a series of really powerful plays in the late game.
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