Created: Mon Oct 31 20:14:24 UTC 2016 Design philosophy: Maximize the amount of good tutors, combo through creatures that are hard to interact with. Make use of 1 cmc elves. Think of alternative win conditions that make use of these 1 cmc creatures also in late game, like Opposition. Edit: based on 3-2 record in 7.1.2016 poromagia tournament, it became evident that Pattern-Rector (with Aluren) needs board presence forming around cost effective creatures. A good starting point is Rikola's SM build. Building pressure enables strategy against control, since this deck has no cantrips to shape the hand and play around the counters while building the combo. This would mean, that removing Aluren package from bwg-core to a ubg-core with cantrips (similar to hermit druid), is logical next step to try. With value etb creatures and maybe 2 cmc blink instants. Legend: 1: part of the initial build (Created) +1: added/to be added to the build -1: removed/to be removed from the build ?1: maybe to be removed Lands (32): 1 Bayou 1 Savannah 1 Scrubland 1 Arid Mesa 1 Marsh Flats 1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Polluted Delta 1 Flooded Strand 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Windswept Heath 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Temple of Plenty 1 Temple of Silence 1 Temple of Malady 1 Brushland 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Horizon Canopy 1 Underground Sea 1 Tropical Island 1 Volrath's Stronghold 1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Wasteland 1 Snow-Covered Swamp 1 Snow-Covered Forest 1 Snow-Covered Plains 1 Gaea's Cradle 1 Taiga 1 City of Brass +1 Dryad Arbor +1 Karakas Creatures: 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Llanowar Elves +1 Elvish Mystic 1 Arbor Elf 1 Elves of Deep Shadow +1 Deathrite Shaman +1 Avacyn's Pilgrim 1 Boreal Druid 1 Wild Cantor 1 Tinder Wall 1 Carrion Feeder (2 of these in min. are needed) +1 Mother of Runes 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1 Viscera Seer (is this alone enought as sac outlet?) 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder +1 Cavern Harpy +1 Quickling 1 Wall of Omens 1 Wall of Blossoms 1 Elvish Visionary 1 Coiling Oracle 1 Baleful Strix (maximize cheap card draw creatures) 1 Tidehollow Sculler +1 Brain Maggot 1 Mesmeric Fiend 1 Saffi Eriksdotter 1 Fauna Shaman -1 Reclamation Sage (to be replaced by Loran of the Third Path) 1 Shardless Agent 1 Eternal Witness +1 Kitchen Finks 1 Recruiter of the Guard +1 Imperial Recruiter 1 Dimir House Guard 1 Academy Rector 1 Reveillark 1 Karmic Guide 1 Protean Hulk 1 Emrakul, the Promised End Spells: 1 Utopia Sprawl 1 Wild Growth 1 Brainstorm 1 Crop Rotation 1 Traverse the Ulwenwald 1 Green Sun's Zenith 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Thoughtseize 1 Duress 1 Inquisition of Kozilek 1 Cabal Therapy 1 Worldly Tutor +1 Enlightened Tutor +1 Collective Brutality 1 Eladamri's Call 1 Diabolic Intent (academy rector) 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Liliana of the Veil 1 Abrupt Decay 1 Recurring Nightmare 1 Eldritch Evolution 1 Pattern of Rebirth +1 Aluren +1 Collected Company 1 Chord of Calling 1 Primal Command 1 Living Death board: -1 Tainted Pact (takes away to many key pieces) -1 Idyllic Tutor (tutors, but is costly, and establishes no board presence) -1 Yawgmoth's Bargain (Good in Finnish meta though) -1 Starved Rusalka -1 Liliana, Heretical Healer -1 Stoneforge Mystic -1 Sword of Fire and Ice -1 Natural Order -1 Sun Titan (comboes with Saffi and sac outlet) -1 Terastodon -1 Grim Discovery -1 Sylvan Tutor -1 Qasali Pridemage -1 Faith's Fetters -1 Night's Whisper -1 Yavimaya Elder -1 Lotus Cobra -1 Shriekmaw (need some cheaper creature based creature destroyer) -1 Ravenous Baloth -1 Grave Titan -1 Woodland Bellower -1 Skinrender -1 Stirring Wildwood -1 Altar's Reap -1 Maelstrom Pulse -1 Bloodthrone Vampire +1 Temple of Plenty +1 Cruel Tutor +1 Rhystic Tutor +1 Sylvan Library +1 Heliod's Pilgrim (can fetch only pattern) +1 Mental Misstep +1 Carrion Feeder (with viscera seer, is this needed. Edit: it is: otherwise hulk combo can be cut off) +1 Bone Shredder +1 Spellskite +1 Worship +1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped -1 Shrieking Drake (Flash on quickling is better than this being tutorable via Ranger) -1 Body Snatcher (replaced by Karmic Guide) -1 Fleshwrither -1 Knight of the Reliquary -1 Scavenging Ooze -1 Archangel of Thune -1 Vindicate -1 Path to Exile (ramps) -1 Liliana of the Veil -1 Summoner's Pact +1 Bring to Light +1 Embodiment of Spring -1 Wirewood Symbiote (could I make use a combo elf shell) -1 Spike Feeder (When archangel of Thune was bad, replace this with Finks) -1 Altar of Bone -1 Wall of Roots -1 Ranger of Eos -1 Grim Tutor +1 Veteral Explorer +1 Evolutionary Leap +1 Militia Bugler +1 Knight of Autumn +1 Mirror Image