They called me mad, but oh how I showed them all. Who's mad now? Would a crazy person use the worst performing meta god with the least attended tribe in GU since Genesis? Well yeah, but who's crazy now? Muahahahahahaha. If you've been following me you might realize at this point that I am a bit of an atlantean fanatic, and funny enough through my tinkering and tuning I have brewed a might peculiar deck. A peculiarly powerful deck, an oddity if you will. In fact this deck was the deck that finally got me through THE HUNT challenge. This deck is my highest performing Nature deck, even compared to traditional amazons or control. I understand why it was thought to be madness, it IS insanity how much everything synergizes when it goes off. I'll explain below.
The key components of this deck (that aren't core atlanteans mentioned in this post from a while back ie Windup rollers etc etc.) are a few powerful but rarely utilized atlanteans with a couple nature staples.
Aquatic Torturer: I assume this card waterboards it's opponent's to get past frontline? Or idk how exactly being an aquatic torturer justifies this ability but this card is CRUCIAL for this deck, but not crucial enough to run 2 copies. The 1 in 30 chance to grant every atlantean flank as well as having a big body at 5 is ESSENTIAL in this deck. Do not underestimate this cards utility, there isn't very much flank in GU that is actually strong enough to use. This is one of them.
Beam Sentry: Now some of you might be looking at the card and thinking, "Rex are you serious? this "dies to one GP ping" excuse for an offensive 1 drop? You're using THIS?". You bet your sweet bippy I am. 3/1 takes it out of the reach of transforms and offers much needed "frenzy" for various cards in this deck that are needed to repopulate your hand.
Firewine: Most of you know the drill with firewine. You set up a wide board or a strong board and then quite literally "overkill" the opponent with the surplus damage created. (Overkill makes any excess damage dealt to creatures be spread randomly amongst enemies).
Spring's Harvest: This card (sometimes in tandem with Beam sentry. gasp ) replenishes your hand with 3 nature cards. this adds additional tech and creates beyond the OBLIGATORY canopy barrages and lightning strikes. It tends to usually be favorable but has also been a brick tossed into your own hand at times.
This deck boasts a slightly over 50 percent winrate, which is the best I can do with nature at hte moment. Ideally I get a few more things togething and maybe make a more refined list for another tribe. We will see. You can check on GU decks I have the latest iteration of this deck listed and it does win about 50 percent of the time and has very polarizing matchups. I will continue to tune it though as it is very fun to play and a surprising fit for atlanteans. Who knew? (The video may see some choppiness towards the end, I couldn't figure out how to deal with that in 3speak but it is meant to show the deck in action and indeed it does). I hope some domain specific atlantean for nature arrive, that would be interesting. Currently the only one that exists is summoned via Grass Roots. I wonder what the future holds?
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