Playing With Elvish Archdruid in Standard
July 10, 2009
Mike Flores gives us a couple of decklist ideas for Elvish Archdruid in Magic The Gathering’s Standard format.
First, Elvish Archdruid is awesome in aggro mono-green Elves.
Turn one play a land, Llanowar Elves.
Turn two play a land, Elvish Archdruid.
Turn three play another, tap all three lands and Llanowar Elves for Hunting Triad. Okay, now the Elves squad has five 2/2 Elves in play … Tap Elvish Archdruid for five mana to deploy ye olde Elvish Promenade and you’ve got ten 2/2 creatures … on turn three.
Just watch out for sweepers like Firespout and Volcanic Fallout.
The M10 elf lord is also great with Cloudthresher.
Turn one Llanowar Elves.
Turn two Elvish Archdruid.
Turn three … nothing?Yep, that’s right … Nothing. The opponent might try to do something flashy on his third like maybe try to sweep the board; but you know you can add six to the pool and summon up ye olde Cloudthresher in response.
Finally, Elvish Archdruid should fit right in with the GW Combo Elves decklist. Since Elvish Archdruid will give you a ton of mana, Mike suggests adding two cards to the decklist to use up all that mana.
We know that combo Elves (i.e. Green-White ElfBall) is a viable possibility in today’s Standard, with Ranger of Eos teaming up with Heritage Druid and Nettle Sentinel. Is it really that much of a stretch to think that Elvish Archdruid—a mana producer of tremendous future capacity—can’t be conscripted to run out a gigantic uncounterable Banefire?
What about Thornling? Thornling is a card that has been flagged everywhere as one of M10’s big accidental winners. The original Morphling is off in the corner crying about the departure of damage on the stack, but Thornling can bypass all that damage on the stack nonsense and tremendous investments in operating mana to go big, big a different way, so on, and so forth, and survive for a fraction of the mana; Thornling can just go big, then go indestructable. But for that, old Thorny might not need, but could probably use a sidekick. I nominate Elvish Archdruid.
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That’s all great, but I was under the impression that MT, SM, and Lorwyn were either out of standard by the time M10 came along or went out of standard with M10.
MT, SM, and Lorwyn didn’t rotate out until Zendikar was released.