Sep 26 2008

A Deck: BFT

dastels @ 12:45 am

Here’s a deck I put together after Lorwyn came out, that I’ve only had the opportunity to play recently. It’s done surprisingly well around the kitchen table.

If you were a DOOM or Quake 2 player, you know what BFT stands for… “Big F***ing Trees”. Here’s the decklist:

Nothing too elegant… it’s pretty blunt with a brute force approach: make some big nasty trees and send them across the table.

The main idea is to drop land as fast and furiously as you can… dumping it from your hand in the early game with the Skyshroud Ranger, fetching more with Rampant Growth and Into the North. The ranger potentially gives you some early game damage or blocks as well. Rites of Flourishing accelerates the game, giving you more cards and more forests. All the land is snow land, so once you can bring some Scrying Sheets online you can start pulling land off the top of your deck at the end of your opponent’s turn with any land you still have untapped.

So that’s aimed at getting you set up with a huge base of land. That lets you cast some serious stuff. Stuff like double Epic Proportions as a combat trick. It also powers up your Dauntless Dourbark, which the Treefolk Harbinger can help you get on the board. Timber Protector is there as another sizable body & target for Epic Proportions, as well as protection for your Dauntless Dourbark. The Battlewand Oak is another body, with a nice pump when you drop multiple trees (animated or not) in a turn. Don’t be shy with this deck… you want to drop stuff in your pre-combat main phase to power things up as much as possible before combat.

When it works, this deck does some sick stuff. One game I had a 22/22 trampling Dourbark (among other things) thanks to the trees in play and 2 Epic Proportions.

In light of sets since Lorwyn, there are some thing that could be put in this deck: Tower Above and Monstrify come to mind.