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Elves was already a very sneaky deck in Historic, offering the explosiveness it usually has in other formats but coupling it with the resilience of one of the best planeswalkers in the format.
As a digital-only card on MTG Arena, Freyalise is a card that some players may not even know exists, but she solves almost every problem that elves decks usually have. Immune to sweepers, difficult to remove, and a never-ending source of card advantage, Freyalise is incredible.
Now with Dominaria United adding another key piece in Leaf-Crowned Visionary, Elves has only gotten better!
Time Stamps:
03:40 - Match 1
10:05 - Match 2
28:21 - Match 3
42:06 - Outro
Leaf-Crowned Elves | Historic | Jim Davis
- Creatures (32)
- 1 Defiler of Vigor
- 2 Allosaurus Shepherd
- 2 Jaspera Sentinel
- 3 Dwynen's Elite
- 4 Elvish Archdruid
- 4 Elvish Clancaller
- 4 Elvish Mystic
- 4 Elvish Warmaster
- 4 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
- 4 Llanowar Elves
- Planeswalkers (4)
- 4 Freyalise, Skyshroud Partisan
- Instants (4)
- 4 Collected Company
- Lands (20)
- 15 Forest
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 2 Castle Garenbrig
- 2 Lair of the Hydra
- Sideboard (15)
- 3 Scavenging Ooze
- 4 Reclamation Sage
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
- 2 Heroic Intervention
- 2 Primal Might
- 2 Snakeskin Veil
Leaf-Crowned Visionary is a phenomenal new addition to the deck.
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Like Freyalise, Leaf-Crowned Visionary helps to keep the cards flowing, turning a resource that Elves usually has an abundant supply of (mana) into what it desperately wants (cards). The cheap cost and global pump effect is almost just a cherry on top. We also got to see Defiler of Vigor in action as a curve topper and it was impressive in the games it showed up, once again providing a payoff that was good against things that are usually good against elves.
While I'd love to try some Elder Gargaroth in the board as a change of pace threat, as you saw in these games the Elves deck is both explosive as well as surprisingly resilient, and definitely not getting the attention it deserves!
