I found some free time on Friday to bust out my new and (very slightly) improved black-green two headed giant deck on MTG Online. The minor changes which I’d made to it were to strip out the Llanower Elves, replacing them with Elves of Deep Shadow to help with mana fixing, and switching the three random Kavu Climbers, which cost too much for what they did, for Wild Sizes, which are lower cost and still net me card advantage. I jumped into the casual multiplayer room and joined a 2HG game to test it out.
My partner was Jaredten playing a 5-colour green sliver deck and our opponents were Sleepy7 and Chapliin playing black-green agro-control and monoblack agro respectively. My opening hand contained no mana acceleration, so I happily shared a big deck mulligan when it came around. I ended up with a hand containing containing acceleration and my favourite disenchanting fatty, Indrik Stomphowler.
Chapliin started off agressively with Vampire Bats, but the cost of pumping them kept him from developing his board position. Jaredten’s hand was mostly off-colour, but plentiful Gemhide Slivers kept him viable with their mana fixing. I started racing Chapliin with my Moldervine Cloak wearing Elves, which took a dirtnap after being hit by Chapliin’s Big Game Hunter, but I dredged back the Cloak, stuck it on another weenie, and continued the beatdown.
In the midgame Jaredtan was facing down a Silklash Spider with his Slivers and I was up against a Dross Crocodile. Wildsize pushed me through the Crocodile, giving me a 2 for 1, and Jaredtan managed to punch through due to a combination of Sleepy7 blocking poorly and Chandra Nalaar appearing at Jaredtan’s side to finish off the battered Spider.
Things looked good until Sisters of Stone Death joined Sleepy7’s side of the table, threatening to start stealing Slivers, and Nightmare made an appearance on Chapliin’s side. I had no answer for either, although I was holding Nekrataal in my hand. Damn black creatures! I needed to draw a Putrefy, but ended up with another Moldervine Cloak instead, which I stacked onto my beater and swung past the now-cowering Nightmare. Jaredtan top-decked a Stonewood Invocation, which let him ambush the Sisters after they forced his Sinew Sliver to block, whilst also making him untargetable by their theft effect.
On my turn Chapliin chumped my attackers poorly, sacrificing all his small creatures to avoid dying to a surprise Wildsize, then Jaredtan swung home with a horde of Slivers for the win. I never even had to play Indrik or Nekrataal.
I remember now why I had the Llanowers in there; my deck is much more hungry for green than it is for black, but luckily it wasn’t a problem during this game. I’m very happy with Wildsize over Kavu Climber, since it seems to frequently 2 for 1 and it’s usually more useful to have a bonus card after paying 3 mana than it is after paying 5 and having none left to use the card you draw.