Comments on: Werewolves! A Standard G/R Brew

By: michael lanigan

michael lanigan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:18:39 +0000

In reply to Trek Barnes. It was a card I considered, but I do not like do nothing cards you top deck late in the game. I could run two moonmist and two full moon rise, that sounds fine, but anymore than that seems excessive. I could see points where you want each of them for different reasons though, so you do have a point there. I will give it some thought.

By: Trek Barnes

Trek Barnes — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:41:29 +0000

Ive been playing werewolves for a couple weeks so far, and I think you cannot leave out full moon rise in this format.

1. The +1/0 pump is a nice side benefit

2. Giving everyone trample. This wins against tokens so much.

3. Sweeper protection. Especially against ratchet bomb. It lets you slightly overextend with your wolves, and then when their deck falters even slightly you sweep in for the win with your flipped mega threats.

By: mike lanigan

mike lanigan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:02:08 +0000

That is definitely true about the mana but honestly it shouldn’t be that bad. You have 10 sources of 1st turn red mana which should be enough. You have 12 sources of 1st turn green mana so that’s fine too. I could see switching the numbers on waif and captive though just to help with consistency. All that being said, strangleroot geist is pretty awesome. If you want to make it more of just red green aggro, instead of dedicated werewolves, that still seems good. If any of the werewolves are removed though, I’d suggest cutting the moonmist most likely though. Hope that helps.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:54:27 +0000

Seems to me that needing both R and G on turn 1 might be the hardest thing about this deck. If we cut the Reckless Waifs and exchange them for 1 more Wolfbitten Captive and 3 Strangleroot Geists, our deck gets a bit slower but the mana becomes vastly more consistent, especially in the early game.