Subject: Mono-Green is alive and kicking!
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:16:04 +0100 (MET)
From: Sonic the Hedgehog <sonic@doralice.bo.astro.it>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

The deck is Stompy-like, with a lot of creatures:

4 Llanowar Elves
4 quirion ranger
4 Rogue Elephant (If you have more than a forest in your starting hand,
  play it! It's HUGE and scares the opponent!)
3 River Boa
2 Harvest Wurm (nice combo with the Elephants and the Fallow Wurms)
4 Jolrael's Centaur
2 Fallow Wurm (one of the fattiest creatures in these days...)
3 Rootwalla
3 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Lhurgoyf
1 Heartwood Treefolk

4 Giant Growth (use it only to keep your creatures alive)
3 Overrun (the key card, won a lot of duels with it)
1 Nature's Resurgence (not as goos as I thinked... maybe an hurricane
                      would have been better...)

17 Forest
3 Wasteland (for the quicksands, but never used... maybe quicksand is better,
             against shadow creatures).

SIDEBOARD:

3 Lifeforce
3 Whirling Dervish
2 City of Solitude
2 Tranquil domain
2 Tranquility
2 Blossoming wreath
1 Null rod

With this deck I won a tournament last monday. I've chushed a mono blue
(ophidian, 4/4 fliers, Man'o'war, counterspell), a Sligh (thanks to my
Lhurgoyfs!), a weenie white (very hard to beat, I won only thanks to the
Overrun!) and lost only from a mono black (because of the Perish...
I had 3 Lifeforces from the sideboard, but he sleighted with Whim of
Volrath...). Then I accessed the finals, and won.

I think that the deck can often simply over-run the opponent, because you
can usually play big creatures or nasty creatures (like the centaurs) in
turn 2. Then you continue to cast and damage the opponent every turn, so
he must stay defensive. If you can't continue to attack every turn, you
simply amass some creatures, then cast the Overrun. (With elves and
rangers, you'll usually have the mana to cast it).
This deck fears very much the Propa-orb, that's because the sideboard
contains 2-3 City of solitude, 2 tranquil domain and 2 tranquility.

Now I would like to receive some suggestion on how to improve the deck
and the sideboard.

Thanks to everybody!

Silvio Vitali - Sonic the Hedgehog - sonic@doralice.bo.astro.it
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