This deck has been doing ok at my local FNM store, but it could still use some improvement. As a student with little $$$, I’m forced to try to make the decks as budget as possible. I created this deck as it benefited from not using dual and shock lands which cost between 10 and 20 dollars at any given time.(Yikes!) The deck is made to accelerate your land count to a point where you can deal game ending burn spells.

 

Phat- the deck

 

Creatures-10

4 Llanwar Elves – Good blocker and early mana accel

4 Vinelasher Kudzu – Keeps getting bigger and bigger!

2 Panglacial Wurm- Just a great card that opponents never suspect

 

Lands- 24

15 Snow Covered Forests

4 Snow Covered Mountains

4 Snow Covered Islands

2 Terramorphic Expanse –Great card for searching out the Wurm

 

Spells- 27

3 Search for Tomorrow – Good search that offers choices

4 Rampant Growth – The original search!

3 Mwonli -Acid Moss - In competition with Hunting Wilds from the new Planar Chaos set. I like the Moss better as in my meta, there are a lot of lightning angel and multi colored decks that rely on a inconsistent mana base that is easily destroyed.

4 Compulsive Research – Good drawing for the burn

4 Tribal Flames – A great reason to run basics

3 Disintegrate – To cheap to afford Demonfire, but this works just as well

3 Telling Time – Good dig, but I have a total of 12 other cards that cost 2 mana and I don’t want to overdue it

3 Blood Moon – I realize it doesn’t fit at all with the theme of the deck, but it is probably (in my opinion) the most powerful red card in the meta. It recks almost everyones land base except mine =)

 

The main problem is, though, is that if aggro decks like boros start playing a mass amount of creatures, I’m dead to put it simply. In the original version of this deck, I included Skreds which helped me fend off creatures, but I have no idea if should I put them back. Also, if you have enough time, I would like your input on a transformative sideboard (For those who don’t know, a transformative sideboard is where you side in all of your 15 card sideboard into your deck to create a totally new deck with a different purpose. This method is very effective as it gives you the advantage of surprise.) Something along the lines of land destruction in the early game and a giant creature in the late game. I hope you get through to responding to me and thanks in advance for your time.

 

~ Jordan

This already looks like a really cool deck (no pun intended) with all that land searching for a surprise Panglacial Wurm.  So how can we improve it?  By fixing the problem you mentioned: difficulties against quich weenie rushes.  I can see your point; you've got very few creatures.  Honestly, I think the main problem in this deck is the color distribution.  Just look at the lands: a 15/4/4 split for green, red, and blue.  I bet I know why your deck struggles against quicker decks; because it spends the first three turns trying to get mana and find a Kudzu to pump up.  I think the best solution here is to drop a color.  Obviously green isn't going anywhere.  Red is giving you Disintegrate, Blood Moon, and Tribal Flames.  Blue is giving you Telling Time and Compulsive Research.  I know running three colors makes Tribal Flames better, but think about it: in your deck, the most damage the Flames will do is 3 if you have all three lands out.  You could just as easily run Volcanic Hammer and deal a guaranteed 3 damage even on nothing but Mountains.  And right now Blue is only giving you card drawing, but card drawing is best when it can help get you the mana you need, not when it's the reason you need mana.  Besides all that, green can draw cards pretty well, too, so Blue gets dropped altogether.  Tribal Flames becomes Skred, Telling Time becomes Ohran Viper (also a creature that can block most of Boros's 2/2's) and Compulsive Research becomes Harmonize (or, if you can't afford Harmonize, Carven Caryatid or Citanul Woodreaders-- also good blockers.  But Harmonize really is better if you can get it).  And the Islands become... Mountains or Forests?  I'd actually say Mountains, so you can be assured of getting one of each land faster.  Only practice will give you the appropriate land distribution, but a 15/8 split sounds about right for getting a first-turn Forest.

Now, about that transformative sideboard you asked for.  I was actually thinking that a sideboard could turn this deck into a dedicated land destruction deck.  With Llanowar Elves, you could hope for a second turn Stone Rain followed by a third turn Icefall or Wreak Havoc.  A sideboard like that would look like: 4 Stone Rain, 4 Wreak Havoc, 4 Mountain (since you'll need to sideboard out some Forests to ensure red mana early enough for land destruction to matter), and 3 of whatever large creatrue you would want to use as a finisher (I recommend Rumbling Slum or some sort of Dragon).  You'd probably side out some land search (Rampant Growth and Search for Tomorrow), the Wurm, and maybe Disintegrate since you won't be searching up as many lands.