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High Life pools + Voices of Hunger/Apex Predators (Green/Blue)

Posted by Cuivenen on 08/07/2017

LAND TYPE(S)
Faeria cost
4
Difficulty
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Overview:

This deck is a green/neutral deck requiring green and blue tiles. The deck is based on many Life buffing events and creatures that will feed the Voices of Hunger. Those Voices of Hunger can then be beneficial to the Apex Predators.
This is a patient, late game deck that requires ideally 3 lakes and at least 3 forests. It is quite faeria-demanding, hence the Triton Sanctuaries.
It is likely that this deck will struggle against hard removals (Frogify, Mirror Phantasm, Choking Sands, Last Nightmare) and heavily aggressive/rushing decks. Burn decks should be easier to manage thanks to the 3 Tiki Healers.

Cards review:

The Triton Sanctuaries will provide on-demand faeria pools, to use to combo a Voice of Hunger and an Apex Predator in the same turn if possible. They were preferred to Faeria Trees because of that “on-demand” aspect. However, they require efficient harvest, hence the high number of creatures (i.e. creatures were preferred to events when equivalent), since some will have to defend and some will have to harvest.
Eathcraft allows to get the six special tiles required to summon Apex Predators faster. It also makes easier to draw one of the crucial cards (Voice of Hunger or Apex Predator). The deck contains only two additional cards draw, but since it is costly in faeria, it would be no use anyway to have too many expensive cards in hand.
Tiki Pipers and Shamanic Dance are cheap, efficient Life buffers that will buff the creatures to sacrifice for the Voices of Hunger. Tiki Pipers are also cheap harvesters. Shamanic Dance also helps to tempo thanks to Taunt.
Bone Collectors are resistant harvesters (for their cost) that can situationally benefit from being nearby when a Voice of Hunger is summoned.
Living Willows, Deepwood Grizzlies and Thyrian Golems are highly cost efficient Life sacks that can also receive Taunt thanks to Shamanic Dance.
Soulbound Sagamis can either be traded for example to ensure faeria harvest or be sacrificed by Voices of Hunger, which will proc their Last Words anyway. Their aim is to die BEFORE the second Voice of Hunger is summoned.
Tiki Healers help a lot to tempo. They provide a potential total of 18 Life to your god. They were preferred to cheaper events such as Gaea’s Grace, Ruunin’s Guidance, Healing Song or The Emperor’s Command because they provide harvesting potential and 6 Life for the sacrifices. Also, no particular card in the deck benefits from using Events.
Voices of Hunger are the keystone of this deck. The aim is to try to summon them surrounded by creatures having altogether at least 10 Life, but 20-ish Life would be ideal. Then they can begin their slow march towards the enemy god, clearing the board on the way.
Apex Predators are the true candidates for giving lethal in this deck. Preferably, you’d like to summon one right after summoning a good Voice of Hunger. Thanks to Jump, it can then set on its way to deliver the lethal blow, while the Voices of Hunger and remaining creatures slowly clear the board upwards.

Game Plan:

The priority in terms of tiles is to spawn a few forests, enough to harvest at least from one well. It is important to not leave your god exposed for enemy tiles. Once at least two wells are harvested, investing in a first lake for a Triton Sanctuary is a good option if you have one in hand. Try to play the harvest and Taunt creatures ASAP if pressured, but avoid Tiki Pipers if possible, keep them for a surprise combo turn.
If pressured, focus on getting the 2 additional forests required for Thyrian Golems. If not, spawn your 2 remaining lakes. Once no relevant tile can be added, pick +1 faeria (or drawn if you have neither a Voice of Hunger nor an Apex Predator).
The order you’d like to spawn those to crucial creatures would be VoH -> AP -> AP -> AP or VoH. Apex Predators are more important because more mobile. Try to link the second Apex Predator to the first one rather than to the initial Voice of Hunger, for the small additional stats.
You can also eat the first Voice of Hunger with the second one (likely getting stats >40) and then use the Apex Predators on that super-creature. This is likely the better option if no hard removal is available in the opponent’s deck. Because of hard removals, it is important to summon the first Voice of Hunger and the first Apex Predator in the same turn, to avoid the first being removed too early. Always try to keep one super-creature alive for subsequent Apex Predators.

LAND TYPES (by number of cards)

0
5
0
0
28

FAERIA COST (by number of cards)

4
0
0
0
1
9
2
6
3
0
4
10
5
2
6
3
7+

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