I had defeated a Naya Midrange deck very easily, squeaked out a win vs. Gruul, and lost to UWR Control. I tried to figure out how I could improve the weaker matchups and make the deck more consistent. There were an unfortunately large number of games where I was drawing ramp and no meat or vice versa. It was absolutely absurd when I was able to untap with it, but those turns never came when I was playing against Jund or UWR.
The effect works perfectly in the deck, but I was never able to draw off the trigger—if only there were a way to draw the turn I cast it. There are too many matchups where a seven-mana creature that has no enter-the-battlefield effect is just laughable. I decided to play Big Scaley in the sideboard for the matchups where it outright wins the game.
The Gruul deck is the biggest offender. They have no good way to kill a Wurm and you can mold your entire game around surviving until you stick the big spell. The card has all the power I want and it makes a lot of my bad draws into very good draws. The game becomes nearly impossible when the opponent untaps with one in play. The new versions of Naya Blitz are a pretty easy matchup for the Elfball deck.
Try to trade with them aggressively and you should be fine. You want to sideboard in a way that maximizes your chances of Hoofing for big numbers as early as possible.
For 7 mana. And it does something that is useful in any deck. If you only have one copy of the card, you can throw it into any deck that runs green. If you treat the rest of the text on the card as a bonus, you are still getting an amazing creature. I know that Brandon is laying out all the fun and exciting ways to abuse this card, so I recommend you check out his article first. Go on. When I first saw the card, I was impressed.
Then, my mind clicked, and I saw only Form of the Dragon. Those are the normal people. Those are the people who value their time. In reality, any card that costs 7 mana better win you the game before your next turn. Instead, some of us try-hards have looked at the card and seen a challenge. Form of the Dragon excites my Vorthos like no other card. I want this card to work! Most everyone who has tried to make the Form work has failed miserably.
But not me. I love Form of the Dragon. We share a special relationship. I want to make it work in spite of its faults. I love it dearly; it spits in my face. I tell it how good we could be together; it laughs at my foolishness. When New Phyrexia came out, I thought that the card I needed had come.
Soul Conduit just seemed like a perfect fit! With Form of the Dragon out, when my life reset to 5, I could use Soul Conduit to switch life totals with an opponent.
On my upkeep, Form of the Dragon would then breath 5 at that opponent, leaving him a charred husk, irrelevant of whatever his life total was before. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was everything I hoped for. In theory. Why does Practice take my beautiful Theory from me at the dance and kick the crap out of her in the back alley? I built the deck and even wrote about it.
Sitting a 5 life was just too low. This helped to solve the low-life problem, but it just took too long to get the mana up to run the combo. How much fun is a crazy combo deck if you are always dead before you can actually have the combo go off? So, you can see my excitement about Elderscale Wurm! The Wurm can replace the Phyrexian Unlife! That by itself is nothing special.
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