Green/White Persist Deck

[apthaven]

Green/White Persistence Deck

60 Total Cards

24 Creatures
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4x Chameleon Colossus
4x Heartmender
4x Kitchen Finks
1x Mirri, Cat Warrior
2x Plumeveil
4x Safehold Elite
2x Skullmulcher
1x Spawnwrithe
2x Trapjaw Kelpie

20 Spells
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1x Ajani Goldmane
1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1x Enlightened Tutor
2x Gaea's Anthem
2x Glorious Anthem
2x Guided Strike
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Pearl
3x Needle Storm
1x Overrun
1x Regrowth
4x Wrath of God

16 Land
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4x Elfhame Palace
4x Savannah
4x Seaside Citadel
4x Temple Garden

This deck is all about the keyword "Persist" and all aspects regarding it.

The best way to play this deck is to use your first creatures as blockers, as the persist ability will bring them back leaving your opponent defenseless while you have still have a force to be reckoned with.

Things start to be interesting once you get the Heartmender card out. This will ensure that all you Persist creatures will come back each and everytime they are dealt lethal damage.

Then to finish it off, use Wrath of God + Persist + Heartmender for the win. No monsters for your opponents while you still got lots of them is nasty.

Other Deck Combos:
Skullmulcher (w/ Devour) + Persist = Your Skullmulcher will easily become a powerhouse, and in return you don't lose any creatures at all.

Kitchen Finks + Heartmender = A very cheap way to gain 2 life over and over again.

[Mr.Chaos]

Nice idea. My first thought was, where is the Mycoloth?
Devour your persisting critters, get a big mycoloth and on top of that, get a bunch of tokens at the start of every turn.
I will try the deck as is, then with the Mycoloth, see what I like better.
Thanks for the idea.

[GandoTheBard]

18 mana sources out of a 60 card deck??? doesn't the game just screw you 90% of the time and then flood you the rest? (less than 30% is really not recommended and 40% is supposedly the standard amount when dealing with any kind of mana curve over 2.)

have a look at my deck which I posted a bit ago that has a similar idea but is more mana fixed.

viewtopic.php?ntheme=style2&f=48&t=1285

[apthaven]

The only problem is when adding non-persist monsters to the deck, it ruins the Armageddon + Persist + Heartmender combo as they do not return back from the grave.

Well that depends on your playing style, so please feel free to make the necessary modifications. Surely there are lots of variations to this theme.

As for the mana, I've never had so much problems. I've got two moxes + 18 land which gives you 20 lands. Maybe adding some basic lands + Kodama's Reach would help. But I do agree that it kinda gets sucky at times due to having consecutive bad draws which means a lost cause early.

Maybe next time I'll try making a 3-color Persist deck, something that is more stable on the long run.

Thanks for the comments guys!

[GandoTheBard]

You mean 2 moxes + 16 lands which is considerably less.

Re: Armageddon I assume you mean wrath. Also what Reaches? I see none in the list here.

[apthaven]

You mean 2 moxes + 16 lands which is considerably less.

Re: Armageddon I assume you mean wrath. Also what Reaches? I see none in the list here.

My bad.

I can't add Reaches because primarily, you'll need to add basic land cards first. Kodama only works on basic land cards, and in the deck there is none.

I'll try posting a better version of this soon to address the deck's weak points.

[apthaven]

As promised, here's the revised edition of the deck.

60 Total Cards

26 Creatures
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4x Chameleon Colossus
4x Heartmender
4x Kitchen Finks
2x Mycoloth
1x Oversoul of Dusk
2x Plumeveil
4x Safehold Elite
2x Skullmulcher
2x Trapjaw Kelpie
1x Voice of Truth

14 Spells
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1x Gaea's Anthem
1x Glorious Anthem
2x Guided Strike
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Pearl
3x Needle Storm
1x Overrun
4x Wrath of God

20 Land
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4x Elfhame Palace
2x Forbidding Watchtower
4x Savannah
4x Seaside Citadel
4x Temple Garden
2x Treetop Village