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Pokèooze 75 cards, 15 sideboard 4 {Stomping Ground} 1 {Island} 2 {Hinterland Harbor} 2 {Mountain} 2 {Steam Vents} 4 {Breeding Pool} 5 {Forest} 4 {Rootbound Crag} 24 lands 4 {Zameck Guildmage} 3 {Hound of Griselbrand} 4 {Strangleroot Geist} 1 {Ambush Viper} 3 {Ghor-Clan Rampager} 4 {Young Wolf} 19 creatures 1 {Spell Rupture} 3 {Searing Spear} 3 {Izzet Charm} 3 {Rancor} 4 {Ooze Flux} 1 {Dispel} 2 {Mizzium Mortars} 17 other spells Sideboard 3 {Tormod's Crypt} 2 {Ancient Grudge} 3 {Naturalize} 2 {Essence Scatter} 2 {Kessig Wolf Run} 1 {Natural End} 2 {Skullcrack} 15 sideboard cards Notes: I love Pokémon decks more than anything, so I fell in love when I saw a {Zameck Guildmage} + Undying version.  As a modern player, I set out to find anything else that worked like that, because I hate using other people's ideas.  What I found, though, was {Ooze Flux}, still in Standard, so I decided to make it Standard instead and try the format out.

This deck is doing a lot better than I thought online.  I just start with some {Strangleroot Geist}s and put a {Rancor} or two on them, and that gives me about half my games.  About a quarter of my games, they survive it, but I make my creatures immortal, burn their creatures' faces off, and then alpha strike.  Most of the rest I have a bad draw or they're playing a really good deck.  I feel like everyone who I play has a bad deck, though, so I think this could still use work... Any ideas?

It seems really solid... And it must be fun to play with...;)

Thanks!  It's fun what I can pull off at any point in the game... Today I was playing someone going monoblack, and he had a field including but not limited to a {Crypt Ghast}, an 8/8 {Desecration Demon}, and 3 {Geralf's Messenger}s.  I put 2 {Rancor}s on my {Hound of Griselbrand} and he forfeited 8D

How is it Pokémon? The fact that there's 6 creatures? Or is there a reference I'm missing?

Oh, a Legacy player taught me the term, it's when your creatures can be "knocked out" but not killed, just like Pokèmon in the video games.  Melira Pod in Modern is the most popular form of Pokèmon deck right now, for example.

Quote from: G33kL0rd on March 01, 2013, 07:14:07 AM
Oh, a Legacy player taught me the term, it's when your creatures can be "knocked out" but not killed, just like Pokèmon in the video games.  Melira Pod in Modern is the most popular form of Pokèmon deck right now, for example.

How do yours only get knocked out? With Flux?

Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on March 01, 2013, 04:22:21 PM

Quote from: G33kL0rd on March 01, 2013, 07:14:07 AM
Oh, a Legacy player taught me the term, it's when your creatures can be "knocked out" but not killed, just like Pokèmon in the video games.  Melira Pod in Modern is the most popular form of Pokèmon deck right now, for example.

How do yours only get knocked out? With Flux?

Notice most of my creatures have undying.  I attack with them, and they come back with undying.  If I have {Ooze Flux} out, I can get rid of all of their +1/+1 counters at once for 1G, and now if they die again undying triggers again because they have no +1/+1 counters.  And I get an Ooze token in the process!  {Zameck Guildmage} also works if I don't draw a Flux, but I need 2 colors rather than 1 and it can only target one creature at a time.  Still, the card draw is nice.

I really like this deck idea a lot very cool +1 all the way. I would like to ask why for no {Rapid Hybridization}?

I didn't have the space, I'd considered it and still do but I don't know what to take out.