* DONE Elves

#+TITLE: Elves
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#+DATE: <2023-04-04 Tue>
#+AUTHOR: Tuomas Pyyhtiä
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* Design philosophy
Combo deck that utilize Gaea's Cradle and Priest of Titania to generate
massive amounts of mana before overrunning the opponent with the board.
Wirewood Symbiote can both protect creatures and with Multani's Acolyte provide repeatable card draw
while Survival of the Fittest is also used for card advantage with Squee, or
for tutoring toolbox answers, and for a longer game if need be.

The sideboard features silver bullet creatures as well as answers to
troublesome enchantments.

All show and tell decks are bad matchups. elves have good matchup against Uw-control/landstill. If they go turn 2 Landstill, you gladly go turn two Survival, or play out threats.

Sligh is unfavorable, 40-60. Hidden Gibbons is good against them.

And don't switch Druid Lyrist (human) into Elvish Lyrist as Engineered Plague is a thing.

Original: https://www.tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=38264&iddeck=351460
Analysis: https://mtgbanding.substack.com/p/spanish-nationals-the-largest-in
Strategy:
Primer: http://alltingsconsidered.com/2022/11/03/episode-212-premodern-elves-olle-and-fluffy/

* 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

* Version 0
By Olle Råde (Original)

** Main (60)
4 Gaea's Cradle
1 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
9 Forest

1 Anger
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Deranged Hermit
1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
1 Masticore
1 Nantuko Vigilante
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Wellwisher
1 Yavimaya Granger
1 Druid Lyrist
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Multani's Acolyte
4 Priest of Titania
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote

4 Survival of the Fittest

3 Tangle Wire (good against faster combo and enchantress, but they are small part of meta).

** Sideboard (15)
3 Naturalize
4 Tempting Wurm
1 Zuran Orb
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Elvish Champion
1 Genesis
1 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Null Rod

** Maybeboard

** Sideboard guide
- Against rock: -3 Tangle Wire +3 Naturalize (deeds and Engineered Plague)
- Against sligh: +4 Tempting Wurm. Better than Survival in that matchup. Though you can Anger and fetch these and go aggro.)

* Version 1
By fpawlusz (Original)
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fff9E-umM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJGVnK7JDo

** Main (60)

9 Forest
4 Gaea's Cradle
1 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills

1 Anger
1 Caller of the Claw
2 Deranged Hermit
4 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Masticore
4 Multani's Acolyte
1 Nantuko Vigilante
4 Priest of Titania
4 Quirion Ranger
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Verdant Force
2 Wall of Roots
4 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Yavimaya Granger

2 Natural Order

4 Survival of the Fittest

** Sideboard (15)
1 Druid Lyrist
1 Elvish Champion
1 Genesis
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Natural Order
4 Naturalize
1 Phantom Nishoba
3 Tangle Wire
1 Uktabi Orangutan

** Maybeboard

** Sideboard guide