Tom 's Cheap GBW counter/token deck
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) vinVintage
Approx. Value:
$205.62
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0 Likes 2 Comments
Avg. CMC 2.8
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 24 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (32)
4 Corpsejack Menace
$1.02 Creature - Fungus
4 Doomed Traveler
$0.04 Creature - Human Soldier
2 Ghave, Guru of Spores
$1.00 Legendary Creature - Fungus Shaman
1 Juniper Order Ranger
$0.32 Creature - Human Knight Ranger
3 Korozda Guildmage
$0.49 Creature - Elf Shaman
2 Sigil Captain
$0.16 Creature - Rhino Soldier
3 Simic Guildmage
$0.17 Creature - Elf Wizard
3 Simic Initiate
$0.06 Creature - Human Mutant
4 Slitherhead
$0.16 Creature - Plant Zombie
2 Spike Breeder
$0.32 Creature - Spike
1 Spike Drone
$0.14 Creature - Spike Drone
3 Spike Feeder
$0.68 Creature - Spike
Sorcery (2)
1 Growth Spasm
$0.30 Sorcery
1 Land Grant
$0.54 Sorcery
Enchantment (3)
3 Parallel Lives
$32.09 Enchantment
Land (23)
1 Caves of Koilos
$1.07 Land
3 City of Brass
$14.67 Land
8 Forest
$0.09 Basic Land - Forest
2 Gavony Township
$1.99 Land
1 Llanowar Wastes
$1.90 Land
1 Overgrown Tomb
$11.57 Land - Swamp Forest
4 Plains
$0.06 Basic Land - Plains
1 Sunpetal Grove
$2.61 Land
2 Swamp
$1.59 Basic Land - Swamp
Sideboard - 31 cards, 29 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (12)
1 Blood Artist
$2.47 Creature - Vampire
1 Cytoplast Root-Kin
$0.20 Creature - Elemental Mutant
1 Elvish Visionary
$0.07 Creature - Elf Shaman
1 Jade Mage
$0.12 Creature - Human Shaman
1 Selesnya Evangel
$0.17 Creature - Elf Shaman
1 Shinewend
$0.15 Creature - Elemental
1 Sigil Captain
$0.16 Creature - Rhino Soldier
3 Spike Drone
$0.14 Creature - Spike Drone
1 Squadron Hawk
$0.18 Creature - Bird
1 Tukatongue Thallid
$0.10 Creature - Fungus
Instant (5)
1 Harrow
$0.39 Instant
1 Hunger of the Howlpack
$0.12 Instant
1 Midnight Haunting
$0.09 Instant
1 Sundering Growth
$0.27 Instant
1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.18 Instant
Sorcery (7)
1 Gather the Townsfolk
$0.13 Sorcery
1 Increasing Devotion
$0.16 Sorcery
1 Increasing Savagery
$0.45 Sorcery
1 Lingering Souls
$0.30 Sorcery
1 Revoke Existence
$0.09 Sorcery
1 Supply // Demand
$0.44 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Timely Reinforcements
$0.15 Sorcery
Artifact (3)
1 Ashnod's Altar
$6.17 Artifact
1 Skullclamp
$6.32 Artifact - Equipment
1 Smokestack
$4.12 Artifact
Enchantment (2)
1 Fecundity
$1.04 Enchantment
1 Fists of Ironwood
$0.11 Enchantment - Aura
Land (2)
1 Golgari Rot Farm
$0.38 Land
1 Murmuring Bosk
$0.78 Land - Forest

Notes
 
Ashnod's altars (with Parallel Lives) would, I think, enable infinitely many infinitely large creatures.  And instakill with blood artist.  But I usually get the math wrong on stuff like that...

this deck sits idly until the 4th land drop.  I'm tempted to put elves in for the spike drones, or add sol ring, or find some way to get to four mana on T3.  Or maybe I should carve the mana accel out of the higher CC stuff...

Success! - this deck is fun to play.  Not a killer deck, but fun.  Brief notes - I liked the mana accel from growth spasm.  I think lingering souls would be excellent.  Maybe take out a spike feeder to use it.  Maybe put a Midnight Haunting in for a Spike Feeder. 

Need a way to deal with enchantments - beast might be a good choice, as you could potentially use it on yourself for the token.
Comments
  • Arthur Aringdale | 28-Nov-2012 15:00
    Cool deck. One of my EDH decks is similar (Doran is the general, but the deck is mostly based on Ghave). One card to consider in place of City of Brass is Murmuring Bosk - it comes into play tapped, but you get your green mana without pain.
    • Tom | 28-Nov-2012 15:17
      Thanks - I'm excited about playtesting it out so I can make some tweaks.  It's one of those decks where you want to keep adding cards to it, but you can't figure out what to remove.  I'd love to get a murmuring bosk or two for it - then I could use a forest fetch for some great mana fixing.
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