With recent release of
the 2014 core set of magic the gathering card playing game. I’ve been buying up
the booster packs and fat pack from the new set. Granted there aren’t any really
super awesome cards in the set, but I can make a pretty
decent deck out the set or have what’s standard cards mixed in with it.
Take my recent Sliver
and Beast deck I made with the mixture of M14, gate crash, and return to
ravnica. The deck is still a working progress, but it does quite OK for now.
Here’s my deck I’ve been working, and then I will explain why some of the cards
are in there for what purpose.
Creature
2x Adaptive Snapjaw
2x Advocate of the Beast
1x Brushstrider
2x Elvish Mystic
1x Kalonian Tusker
1x Manaweft Sliver
1x Marauding Maulhorn
2x Predatory Sliver
1x flames of the firbrand
2x Rumbling Baloth
1x Sliver Construct
2x Striking Sliver
1x Thorncaster Sliver
1x Battle Sliver
1x Slaughterhorn
Instant
3x Chandra's Outrage
2x Fog
3x Shock
Sorcery
2x Lava Axe
2x Seismic Stomp
Enchantment
2x Awaken the Ancient
2x Lightning Talons
Land
12x Forest
12 X Mountains
The whole purpose behind the beast
creatures (Adaptive Snapjaw, Brushstrider, Kalonian Tusker, Marauding Maulhorn,
Rumbling Baloth) is to make them powerful than before with the help of Advocate
of the Beast. What the card does, is it gives the beast creatures a +1/+1
counter at the end of my turn, which is helpful for blocking creatures
attacking me or have them have more attacking and defensive power for my next
turn (like a 3/3 beast creature will become a 4/4 creature my next turn and so
on and on). With the enchantments like lightning talons that would give my
creature a +3/+0 and have first strike (which give damage to the creature
before they attack me) on the already powerful creature from putting a +1/+1
counter on the creature each turn can end the game much quicker.
Let’s go onto the slivers in the
deck. They too can help out other creatures too, as long as they are slivers.
Slivers like the Manaweft sliver helps other slivers to get the ability to have
extra land mana on the battlefield to help get more creatures and or spells out
quickly, which the land mana goes away at the end of the turn. Predatory Sliver
will help other slivers get a +1/+1 counter on them along with the ability to
create land mana. Striking sliver will help other slivers get first strike;
Thorncaster sliver will also give slivers the ability to deal extra damage if
that sliver makes a combat damage. So if I have 4 slivers out and they have
that ability, then if they make combat damage then the player is getting dealt
that much extra damage. Battle Sliver also helps with slivers power by giving them a +2/+0.
Last thing we should not forget
about the elves. I know there isn’t many in the deck (like I said, it’s a
working progress) but Elvish Mystic also help with getting one extra land mana
onto the battlefield to help with the creature and spell casting needs.
Although it may seem cruel they are also good for blocking creatures attacking
me as well.
Thanks for reading my blog, please
leave a comment on what your suggestion for the deck would be or what kind of
deck you have that the cards work with each other? Here's the link from tappedout.com ofthe deck if you want to test it out, SLIVER AND BEAST DECK
