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The '''Elves deck''' in [[Extended]] is majorly focus on this card <card>Glimpse of nature</card> this is the card that can provide a huge amount of cards for Elves is a creature base deck
'''Elves''' is a primarily green creature based combo deck which was widely popular during Pro Tour Berlin 2008 and Extended tournaments during the subsequent PTQ season. Most notably it won PT Berlin as a version piloted by [[Luis Scott-Vargas]].


As for mana, the deck offers <card>heritage druid</card> and <card>Nettle Sentinel</card> inter-action. By tapping Elves--> produce mana--> play Elves --> Untap <card>Nettle Sentinel</card> --> tap them to get more mana. Once this action is going, the player can smoothly draw his/her entire deck since there are way too many mana floating shortly after repeating this process.
The deck uses mana producing elves such as <c>Llanowar Elves</c>, <c>Birchlore Rangers</c> and <c>Heritage Druid</c> to very quickly ramp up mana, specifically by the Rangers and Druid. They would also be aided by <c>Wirewood Symbiote</c> and <c>Nettle Sentinel</c>. The Symbiote can untap Llanowar elves or any other to be tapped again for Rangers or Druid while the Sentinel just untaps himself whenever a green spell is played. Using <c>Glimpse of Nature</c>, the player can just repeatedly play Elf cards, draw cards of them for even more elves while tapping the Elves in play for mana to cast the spells. <c>Elvish Visionary</c> is also a frequently played card due to it's interaction with Symbiote. <c>Summoner's Pact</c> is primarily used to glue the deck together.


Always, things won't get so smooth so <card>Elvish Visionary</card> and <card>Wirewood Symbiote</card>
Even though the core is the same, there are various versions of the deck mostly differing in the cards used to end the game and the means to search for them. Some decks use <c>Weird Harvest</c> to quickly assemble a large number Nettle Sentinels, amass a Storm counter and kill with <c>Grapeshot</c> or sometimes <c>Brain Freeze</c>. Other decks use <c>Wirewood Hivemaster</c> to produce a large amount of Insect tokens to fuel a <c>Chord of Calling</c> for a <c>Predator Dragon</c> who would eat the tokens and most other creatures to attack for lethal damage. Yet another version would go for <c>Mirror Entity</c>. Even <c>Blasting Station</c> has seen play in this deck. The deck is capable to use cards of almost all colors as well as other support cards such as <c>Thoughtseize</c> due to Birchlore Ranger's ability producing any color of mana.
interaction (bounce <card>Elvish Visionary</card> with <card>Wirewood Symbiote</card> re-cast it and draw a card) sometimes will come into play to help and this action turns out to be powerful as long as Druid-Sentinel mana engine works.


For spells, the deck offer <card>Summoner's pact</card> for [[tutor]] <card>Chord of calling</card> players in PT Berlin 2008 use this to find hate cards for mirror match <card>weird harvest</card> when too many manas are floating, use this to find whatever action you want to trigger, but usually it is <card>Nettle Sentinel</card> and <card>Regal Force</card> sometimes <card>thoughtseize</card> along with <card>Gilt-Leaf Palace</card>.
<d title="Elves - Luis Scott Vargaz - Pro Tour Berlin 2008">
Lands
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
9 Snow-Covered Forest


The other key card to complete combo is <card>Birchlore Rangers</card> this card provide any color of mana you wish and make every card be playable inside this deck.
Creatures
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Elves of Deep Shadow
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Heritage Druid
4 Birchlore Rangers
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Wirewood Symbiote
2 Viridian Shaman
1 Eternal Witness
1 Regal Force
 
Other
4 Summoner's Pact
4 Glimpse of Nature
3 Weird Harvest
1 Grapeshot
 
Sideboard
4 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Thoughtseize
2 Viridian Shaman
1 Pendelhaven
1 Mycoloth
1 Nullmage Shepherd
2 Thorn of Amethyst
</d>
 
 
<d title="Elves - Martin Juza - Pro Tour Berlin 2008">
Lands
1 Pendelhaven
4 Temple Garden
4 Horizon Canopy
8 Forest
 
Creatures
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birchlore Rangers
4 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Essence Warden
4 Wirewood Hivemaster
1 Viridian Shaman
1 Predator Dragon
1 Elvish Champion
2 Elvish Visionary
 
Other
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Chord of Calling
2 Summoner's Pact
 
Sideboard
3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Naturalize
1 Viridian Shaman
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Tar Fiend*
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Voidstone Gargoyle
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Gaddock Teeg
</d>
 
 
<d title="Elves - Bob Albright - PTQ Honolulu 2009 Minneapolis">
Lands
2 City of Brass
3 Forest
3 Gilt-Leaf Palace
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
1 Temple Garden
3 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothills
 
Creatures
4 Birchlore Rangers
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Heritage Druid
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Mirror Entity
4 Nettle Sentinel
1 Regal Force
1 Viridian Shaman
4 Wirewood Hivemaster
4 Wirewood Symbiote
 
Other
4  Chord of Calling
4 Glimpse of Nature
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Thoughtseize
 
Sideboard
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Elvish Champion
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Gleeful Sabotage
1 Orzhov Pontiff
2 Proclamation of Rebirth
3 Thoughtseize
2 Umezawa's Jitte
</d>


There are various finishers in this deck such as <card>Predator Dragon</card> with main-deck <card>Wirewood Hivemaster</card> and <card>Essence warden</card> or just <card>Grapeshot</card> with scary storm counts.
[[Category:Tournament decks]]
[[Category:Tournament decks]]

Revision as of 17:04, 21 May 2009

Elves is a primarily green creature based combo deck which was widely popular during Pro Tour Berlin 2008 and Extended tournaments during the subsequent PTQ season. Most notably it won PT Berlin as a version piloted by Luis Scott-Vargas.

The deck uses mana producing elves such as Llanowar Elves, Birchlore Rangers and Heritage Druid to very quickly ramp up mana, specifically by the Rangers and Druid. They would also be aided by Wirewood Symbiote and Nettle Sentinel. The Symbiote can untap Llanowar elves or any other to be tapped again for Rangers or Druid while the Sentinel just untaps himself whenever a green spell is played. Using Glimpse of Nature, the player can just repeatedly play Elf cards, draw cards of them for even more elves while tapping the Elves in play for mana to cast the spells. Elvish Visionary is also a frequently played card due to it's interaction with Symbiote. Summoner's Pact is primarily used to glue the deck together.

Even though the core is the same, there are various versions of the deck mostly differing in the cards used to end the game and the means to search for them. Some decks use Weird Harvest to quickly assemble a large number Nettle Sentinels, amass a Storm counter and kill with Grapeshot or sometimes Brain Freeze. Other decks use Wirewood Hivemaster to produce a large amount of Insect tokens to fuel a Chord of Calling for a Predator Dragon who would eat the tokens and most other creatures to attack for lethal damage. Yet another version would go for Mirror Entity. Even Blasting Station has seen play in this deck. The deck is capable to use cards of almost all colors as well as other support cards such as Thoughtseize due to Birchlore Ranger's ability producing any color of mana.

Elves - Luis Scott Vargaz - Pro Tour Berlin 2008

Lands (16)

4 Gilt-Leaf Palace

2 Overgrown Tomb

1 Pendelhaven

9 Snow-Covered Forest

Creatures (32)

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Elves of Deep Shadow

4 Nettle Sentinel

4 Heritage Druid

4 Birchlore Rangers

4 Elvish Visionary

4 Wirewood Symbiote

2 Viridian Shaman

1 Eternal Witness

1 Regal Force

Other (12)

4 Summoner's Pact

4 Glimpse of Nature

3 Weird Harvest

1 Grapeshot

Sideboard (15)

4 Umezawa's Jitte

4 Thoughtseize

2 Viridian Shaman

1 Pendelhaven

1 Mycoloth

1 Nullmage Shepherd

2 Thorn of Amethyst


Elves - Martin Juza - Pro Tour Berlin 2008

Lands (17)

1 Pendelhaven

4 Temple Garden

4 Horizon Canopy

8 Forest

Creatures (33)

4 Wirewood Symbiote

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Birchlore Rangers

4 Heritage Druid

4 Nettle Sentinel

4 Essence Warden

4 Wirewood Hivemaster

1 Viridian Shaman

1 Predator Dragon

1 Elvish Champion

2 Elvish Visionary

Other (10)

4 Glimpse of Nature

4 Chord of Calling

2 Summoner's Pact

Sideboard (15)

3 Umezawa's Jitte

3 Thorn of Amethyst

2 Naturalize

1 Viridian Shaman

1 Ethersworn Canonist

1 Tar Fiend*

1 Orzhov Pontiff

1 Voidstone Gargoyle

1 Burrenton Forge-Tender

1 Gaddock Teeg


Elves - Bob Albright - PTQ Honolulu 2009 Minneapolis

Lands (17)

2 City of Brass

3 Forest

3 Gilt-Leaf Palace

1 Overgrown Tomb

1 Pendelhaven

1 Temple Garden

3 Windswept Heath

3 Wooded Foothills

Creatures (33)

4 Birchlore Rangers

4 Elvish Visionary

4 Heritage Druid

1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

4 Llanowar Elves

2 Mirror Entity

4 Nettle Sentinel

1 Regal Force

1 Viridian Shaman

4 Wirewood Hivemaster

4 Wirewood Symbiote

Other (10)

4 Chord of Calling

4 Glimpse of Nature

1 Summoner's Pact

1 Thoughtseize

Sideboard (15)

3 Burrenton Forge-Tender

1 Elvish Champion

1 Ethersworn Canonist

2 Gleeful Sabotage

1 Orzhov Pontiff

2 Proclamation of Rebirth

3 Thoughtseize

2 Umezawa's Jitte

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