![]() We knew we had to chump Polukranos, World Eater for the rest of the game, and this is where the punt came in. ![]() We used our last mana to play a Gnarlroot Trapper and passed the turn. The next turn we untapped with five mana, cast a Sylvan Messenger and hit the absolute nuts: a second copy of Shaman of the Pack along with two copies of Dwynen's Elite. Our way to winning this game was to amass enough Elves that we could chump for a couple turns and finish off our opponent with multiple copies of Shaman of the Pack (or Chord of Calling finding Shaman of the Pack). We immediately had to chump Polukranos, World Eater with our Elf Token (or we would have dropped to 1 life and been dead on board the next turn) leaving us with an empty board. ![]() In what ended up being a pretty epic game two, our opponent at 14 life went monstrous with Polukranos, World Eater (10:05 in the video) sweeping away four of our creatures and leaving us with a single 1/1 Elf Token against an 11/11 Polukranos, World Eater, two Sylvan Caryatids, a 2/2 Satyr Token, and an active Xenagos, the Reveler. GR Devotion is a tough matchup since Polukranos, World Eater and Dragonlord Atarka are pretty good against a horde of x/1's and x/2's, but I'm pretty sure I lost game two (and the match) due to a punt. GB Elves IntroĪs you can see in the videos, this deck absolutely killed it going 5-1 over the course of the six matches with our only loss coming to GR Devotion. Anyway, let's get to the videos and then we'll talk a bit more about the deck. First a quick reminder - if you enjoy the Budget Magic series and the other video content here on MTGGoldfish, make sure to subscribe to the MTGGoldfish Youtube Channel to keep up on all the latest and greatest. Plus, we just kept winning, which made me want to keep playing the deck anyway, so I kept the cameras rolling for all six matches. I played six matches in a row and basically won the lotto of recording videos in the 2-man queues every single opponent was on a different deck, and even more surprising every single deck was a tier one/two archetype. I'll let you in on a Budget Magic secret: since I typically record in the two-man queues on Magic Online, some weeks it takes 10 matches to get videos for three different matchups (because you run into Mono-Red Aggro five matches in a row or run into people playing tier four decks that don't really make great viewing). But other times the matchups line up perfectly and things are pretty easy. This is also (by accident) the longest edition of Budget Magic I've ever produced, featuring videos of six different matchups. This week we are heading back to Standard to showcase a Budget Magic deck that seems well positioned in the post-Pro Tour Magic Origins, post-Grand Prix San Diego metagame: Green-Black Elves. 안녕하십니까 Budget Magic lovers, it's that time again.
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