Created: Tue Sep 27 18:11:17 UTC 2016

Design philosophy: Geared towards Finnish meta (blue, counterspells) we play
uncounterable threats and/or efficient creatures with flash,
which screw control's tempo. In early game we ramp with 2cc and up land spell,
which are more resilient to hate than 1cc mana elves.
Rest of the deck's mechanics are chosen to support having a lot of lands,
lands entering play etc. Since we don't have 1cc elves for fodder anymore, we strive
to play untargetable creatures, or mana walls that have double duty (mana and
block).

In Highlander, there's currently no reason not to splash another color so red has been
chosen for Scapeshift win.

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

Mana (36):
1 Dust Bowl (Tactics of its own.)
1 Wasteland
+1 Encroaching Wastes
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Blighted Woodland (if playing the non-elf version)
1 Myriad Landscape (if playing the non-elf version)
1 Taiga
1 Stomping Ground
1 Cinder Glade
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
+1 Ancient Tomb (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 City of Traitors (if playing the non-elf version)
20 Snow-Covered Forest

Ramp (22):
1 Tinder Wall
1 Sakura-Tribe Scout (Can I draw enough lands for this to be good?)
1 Skyshroud Ranger
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Utopia Sprawl (First turn accelerant)
1 Wild Growth (First turn accelerant)
1 Crop Rotation (Tabernacle)
1 Three Visits
1 Nature's Lore
1 Exploration (if playing non-elf version)
1 Fastbond (if playing non-elf version)
1 Search for Tomorrow
+1 Edge of Autumn
+1 Farseek
+1 Into the North
+1 Rampant Growth
+1 Explore
+1 Restore
?1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Channel (Accelerant for colorless, nontargetable creatures)
+1 Nissa's Pilgrimage
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Cultivate
1 Vernal Bloom (if playing the non-elf version)
1 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
+1 Skyshroud Claim (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Explosive Vegetation (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Hunting Wilds (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Ranger's Path (if playing the non-elf version)

Creatures (27):

+1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Vexing Shusher (chosen because control meta)
1 Eternal Witness
1 Kitchen Finks
+1 Tireless Tracker (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Courser of Kruphix (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Yavimaya Elder
+1 Reclamation Sage
1 Great Sable Stag (against control meta)
+1 Boon Satyr (against control meta)
+1 Loxodon Smiter (against control meta)
+1 Caller of the Claw (if playing elf-only version)
+1 Vile Redeemer (if playing the elf-only version)
1 Garruk Wildspeaker (if playing the elf-only version)
+1 Yeva, Nature's Herald (against control meta)
1 Thrun, the Last Troll (against control meta)
?1 Oversoul of Dusk
+1 Nissa, Vital Force (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Woodland Bellower (Finks, Eternal Witness)
1 Terra Stomper (against control meta)
1 Primeval Titan
+1 Garruk, Caller of Beasts (if playing the elf-only version)
1 Cloudthresher (against control meta)
+1 Dragonlord Dromoka (against control meta)
+1 Mistcutter Hydra (against control meta)
+1 Genesis Hydra (helps to ramp, gains value even when countered)
1 Regal Force (if playing elf-only version)
1 Platinum Empreror (with Madcap Experimentation)
1 Gaea's Revenge (against control meta)
+1 Avenger of Zendikar (if playing the non-elf version)

Tutors 13 (Rest of the creature slots should be best silver bullets, tutors to be
tested to support them):
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Green Sun's Zenith (w/ Dryad Arbor first turn accelerant)
1 Sylvan Tutor
1 Worldly Tutor (Interacts with Channel, pending)
1 Eladamri's Call
+1 Eldritch Evolution (of playing the elf-only version)
?1 Fierce Empath (deck wants to draw and curve threats)
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Chord of Calling (if playing the elf-only version)
1 Primal Command
1 Summoning Trap (against control meta)
1 See the Unwritten
1 Tooth and Nail

Utility 3:
1 Swords to Plowshares (Helps the deck with creature removal and PatternRector matchup)
1 Path to Exile (if playing elf-only version)
1 Sylvan Library (against control meta)

Sideboard:
Ramp:
?1 Grim Monolith
?1 Thran Dynamo
1 Hedron Archive
1 Sisay's Ring
1 Ur-Golem's Eye
-1 Mana Reflection (too slow)

Mana:
-1 Joraga Treespeaker (tempo loss if removed in response)
-1 Magus of the Vineyard (just bad as opponent gets the mana first)
-1 Krosan Verge (if playing the non-elf version)

-1 Vengevine
-1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (Too costly)
1 Rampaging Baloths (if playing the non-elf version)
-1 Rude Awakening
-1 Thornling
-1 Stunted Growth (Does not always hit, thus cut)
-1 Tectonic Edge
-1 Krosan Grip (Uncounterable, but can't be countered)
?1 Treetop Village (slow, does not donate to the game plan, is not big enough. Still traded one forest for this. Pending.)
-1 Tarmogoyf (stupid meat with no immeadiate effect)
-1 Deus of Calamity (Didn't do enough, replaced by Pelakka Wurm)
-1 Insist (Cantrip against others, deck has the mana, or then autumn's veil. Edit: was never really needed)
?1 Savage Summoning
?1 Vines of Vastwood (Protects big critters. Pending. Then again, why not replace this with a quality critter)
?1 Autumn's Veil
?1 Blossoming Defense
-1 Omnath, Locus of Mana (Nissa, Vastwood Seer is better)
-1 Gauntlet of Power (Not the same thing, but replaced with Sword of Feast and Famine)
-1 Sword of Feast and Famine (or Sword of Light and Shadow?)
-1 Indrik Stomphowler
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (immediate value, deck's only direct creature removal)
+1 Steel Hellkite (Pending, makes Channel more sick)
-1 Chameleon Colossus
-1 Stoneforge Mystic (helps making all the little dudes as real threats)
-1 Sensei's Divining Top
+1 Lotus Cobra (if playing the non-elf version)
+1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (if playing the non-elf version)
?1 Quagnoth (does this do enough?)
+1 Temple of the False God (if playing the non-elf version)
-1 Natural Order
-1 Birthing Pod
-1 Plow Under (horrific if countered)
-1 Sword of Fire and Ice
-1 Primalcrux (stupid meat, no immeadiate gain)
?1 Ohran Viper
-1 Wickerbough Elder
-1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Too costly, is not required anymore with the splash of white and its removal)
-1 Harmonize
-1 Sundering Titan
-1 Woodfall Primus
-1 Artisan of Kozilek (immediate value even when countered)
-1 Pelakka Wurm
-1 Batterskull
-1 Qasali Pridemage
-1 Voice of Resurgence
+1 Emrakul, the Promised End (can deck support this?)
-1 Acidic Slime
+1 Mwonvuli Beast Tracker
+1 Traverse the Ulvenwald (can deck support delirium?)
+1 Scapeshift
+1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
+1 Vesuva
+1 Circuitous Route
+1 Pir's Whim
+1 Reap and Sow
+1 Tempt with Discovery
+1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
+1 Wurmcoil Engine
+1 Carnage Tyrant
+1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno