Finally, turn four, we tap four lands and an, cast and swing for the win. Third turn, we’ll want to cast whatever other elves we have in hand, ideally dropping at least two more elf-type creatures. This will enable our turn-two, buffing our first elf, and getting us on track for a turn-four win. We want to cast a turn-one mana elf, like or, so those are both natural 4-of inclusions.

If you’re into a $50 deck that wins on turn four, read on!įirst, let’s talk about the game plan. To be sure, this is not a typical ‘Budget’ deck article, in that I’ll be using plenty of Rares, but, excepting the namesake, I’m aiming to keep the value of each individual card at less than $1. As a man on a budget, however, I can’t often afford these decks as they are, so I’d like to go over Steve’s brew this week, what makes it tick, what makes it affordable, and why you’re not losing much by foregoing the more costly cards. The competitive scene has caught on as well, with three recent Top 4 showings from decks sporting their very own Behemoths. You can see a slightly modified version of Steve’s budget-friendly ‘Trampelf’ here. He’s been coming back for more turn four kills every week, and I’ve got to hand it to him, the deck is pretty consistent. Suffice to say, after watching him swing for nearly 30 trample damage on turn four, I was pretty impressed. Fortunately, a certain Steve Butts picked up my slack and came to our weekly Magic session a few weeks back packing his own Craterhoof deck. Sadly, my own designs never came to fruition, and my s languish, unused in my binder. When I first saw Craterhoof, during the Avacyn Restored spoiler weeks, I concocted a scheme to recreate my Eldrazi ramp deck in the new Standard format, with lots of one-mana elves, a playset of and the most expensive spells I could find.

Namely, I’d like to look at and the elves that make it work. In a continuing trend of talking about Green decks, I’d like to discuss something that’s been floating around my playgroup for the last few weeks and, not surprisingly, has put up some sporadic results in competitive events recently.

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