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Creatures
Protean Hydra x4
Lotus Cobra x4
Plated Geopede x4
Grazing Gladehart x3
Avenger of Zendikar x2
Birds of Paradise x3

Removal
Lightning Bolt x3
Searing Blaze x3
Destructive Force x2

Support
Garruk Wildspeaker x3
Explore x4
Cultivate x4

Land
Rootbound Crag x4
Misty Rainforest x2
Scalding Tarn x1
Arid Mesa x2
Verdant Catacombs x2
Forest x6
Mountain x4

Sideboard
Plummet x4


This is just a little concept I was working with. Trying to find a way to build a landfall deck to compete out there with what's around. I didn't want to do Boros so I made this one have a twist. The early game use the Geopede's to swing for damage and use early burn to deal damage to the opponents creatures to move them. If I can manage to get a decent protean hydra out later game if it gets there I can self burn it to attack with a bigger creature or hold my burn for later. Should things be looking bad I can use destructive force to clear the board.

The actual ending move is to get out the hyrda, and get it to survive the destructive force and swing with a huge hydra the next turn when the board is empty. I am working on sideboard to make the deck stand up to the meta in my area. Plummetwill be a 4 of copied spell to take place of searing in the event I'm fighting fliers. I haven't really figured out what else I want to do since this deck is still just in the formation stages. Going to run some tests tonight with this and my Grixis Mill Pyromancer Deck. Ideas/thoughts appreciated.

After deck testing this deck I can say that there are things that it does that I like. I feel like there isn't enough draw to the deck to keep it's momentum. Normally I'm against adding something like Howling mine to a deck. It helps the opponent out as often as it does myself too frequently. However I can't think of a better way except maybe to use Crystal Ball's to scry the next few cards and hopefully nick something I need or want. The combos that I expected to happen and work would have, if not for a well timed Mana-leak I think the game I played with Browncoat may have gone differently. However the blue deck that he was playing ended this one pretty quickly.

I recently played a G/R haste deck that was pretty damn nasty. Guy was playing Jund Hackblades, The new Ball of lightening guy, and the artifacts that tap for mana but require you to return a land to your hand when they come into play. His 5 drop of the deck was Spellbreaker Behemoth. Nasty card for a finisher. His damage output worked out really well. I might steal some of his ideas for this deck.