Tribal Trials - 3

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Tribal Trials

Episode 3 - Druid

Readers, this is huge! Did you know there’s another classic tribal deck that top 8’d using Platinum Disks of Swiftness and Lesson of the Wild? Yeah, I told you this was a big deal.

Druid

Ciochon89 had a dream of going fast with a druid. If you want to play along at home, try counting up the total number of cards in the deck that have cost reduction!

Arisella’s GAMEPLAN:

  • Stack Harmonize up to 4, which reduces the cost of Magistrix Dianas down to 0, enabling you to draw your whole deck.

  • With enough harmonize in play and essentially infinite draw from casting Magistrix Dianas, you can trigger Remulos, Son of Cenarius to generate 30+ treant tokens.

  • A free Wasteland Tailstrider can attack and trigger giving the rest of your allies ferocity and +2 ATK.

  • A free Alexstraza, the Life-Binder can safeguard your tokens and allies, making them invincible. removing most of the opposing interaction once your combo is assembled.

  • When you can’t find your combo piece, Magistrix Dianas, the backup plan is to turbo out harmonize allies with cost reduction and generate a large but fragile board presence, hedging on speed to out-tempo the opponent.

The Combo

The Harmonize Engine

The Sideboard

In a metagame where the big threat was turn 2/turn 3 Rune of Vengeance + Azaloth combo, Ciochon89 went all-in on speed, with a main deck capable of turn 3/4/5 infinite combos with inevitability.

The graveyard hate gives this druid fast and favorable interaction over the rune combo or any decks planning on using their discards. Anti-mage tech and free ally removal round out the sideboard, helping Arisella edge out challenging matchups for 0 or 1 resource.

 

Evolving the Deck

I spoke with Ciochon89 about future inclusions to refine this list and he pointed out Primordial Ooze and Tharal Wildbreeeze as alternatives for consistency. Here’s a sample list to be aware of as a threat going forward in classic.

Stonebranch, Ancient of War allows for an immediate combo kill if 30+ 1/1 treants with ferocity can do the job. Alliance allows this list to aim for consistency with Concerted Efforts hitting a huge selection of 2’s and 4’s. Worthy of Passing aims for raw card advantage so we can hit our resource for the turn and try to churn into more harmonize enablers or payoffs.

The sideboard is built simply a bucket of ideas for the reader to brew further with, some of which include the potential for pivoting away from full combo and aiming for a fair beatdown or attrition plan.

Alternative Options

I hope you enjoyed seeing just how powerful classic can be. This list is wicked fast with a fair backup plan. Best of luck to you dodging those disruption or sweeper heavy matchups.

If you have any ideas for this or a future deck, please post it in the comments below!