LSV’s Turboland Deck List

June 13, 2010 | Posted by Dee

Luis Scott-Vargas (LSV) did well in yet another premier MTG Standard tournament. Yesterday, he got 2nd place in the StarCityGames.com Open in Seattle, a tournament with over 250 players. He played a rogue deck called Turbo Land that will probably increase in popularity because of his finish.

TurboLand is a combo deck. Basically, you use mana ramp spells and Oracle of Mul Daya to play a lot of lands. Jace TMS’s -0 ability works with Oracle to make sure you have lands on top of your library. Time Warp allows you to play even more lands. The blue sorcery is especially broken with Oracle. Mind Spring helps you find more combo pieces. And Avenger Of Zendikar wins you the game once you have a bunch of lands on the battlefield.

Here’s the decklist.

Turboland
Creatures (12)
Spells (20)
Lands (28)
Sideboard (15)

Decklist Analysis

I like LSV’s list because it has a lot of cheap early spells. It has 12 mana ramp spells that can be played on turn two and one Ponder. Ali Aintrazi, the original creator of the deck, debuted his list in last week’s StarCityGames.com Open tournament in Philadelphia and got 5th place. But his deck only had nine spells that cost two or less mana. By adding more cheap spells to the deck, LSV made it more consistent. For example, I would mulligan any opening hand without an early play. The more early plays you have, the less likely you will have to mulligan.

The deck has a lot of lands (28!) because a high land count works well with the spells. You need lands to trigger the landfall of Lotus Cobra and Avenger of Zendikar. Avenger puts creatures onto the battlefield depending on the amount of lands you control. Explore becomes better than Rampant Growth if you have a lot of lands in the deck. Oracle Of Mul Daya is only useful if you have lands on top of your library.
(Find out how much Turbo Land costs.)

Along with making your spells better, the lands can provide spell-like abilities. Halimar Depths helps you find key cards and puts lands on top of the library for Oracle. Khalni Garden provides chump blockers and combos with Avenger. Tectonic Edge destroys manlands and in some situations, mana screws you opponent. And the seven fetchlands trigger landfall twice, allow you to change the top card of the library, and shuffle away unneeded cards from Jace TMS’s first ability and Halimar Depths.

LSV’s sideboard is interesting. Roil Elemental is not a card you see often but it can be great against decks without much removal like Mythic Conscription, some versions of Vengevine Naya, and Polymorph. You can even steal creatures at instant speed on your opponent’s turn with fetchlands.

Terastodon is good against a deck with a lot of noncreature permanents like Super Friends (UWR Planeswalkers). Also, you can destroy your own lands to recover from a Day of Judgment with 18 power worth of creatures. Narcolepsy and Fog help against aggressive decks with a lot of cheap creatures. Negate comes in versus control and combo decks and Jace Beleren is good against other Jace TMS decks.

Bill Stark interviewed Cedric Phillips, another top player who played Turboland. Cedric talked about the matchups of the deck and gave some strategy tips.

He said Next Level Bant, Jund, Naya, and blue control (Blue-White, Planeswalkers, Cruel Control, etc.) were favorable matchups while Mythic, Boros, Time Sieve, and Polymorph were 50/50. Mono red aggro decks were bad matchups.

His tips included the following:

The deck is complex, with significantly more card manipulation than most other decks in the Standard format. This is not a deck you can pick up and play; there are a lot of interactions you need to know and you need to test your matchups.

If you have Oracle on the battlefield, you often want to set up your draw so that it’s spell-land-spell. After you draw a card on the next turn, you will have a land on top of the library for Oracle.

On the draw against decks with Spreading Seas, your first land should be a blue mana source. That way your green source is protected on turn two.

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One Response to “LSV’s Turboland Deck List”

  1. MTG Deck Price Tag: RUG Control Ramp Decklist on January 13th, 2011 12:09 am

    [...] deck reminds me of Turboland from the previous Standard environment seven months ago. It has the same explosive card draw/ramp [...]





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