very nice deck the only thing i would replace would be eyeblights ending with terror or putrefy.10/10. please comment on my green colossus deck.

To take it down to 60 cards is fairly simple. Just take out three of the more 'niche' cards and stick them in the side, since you still have three slots there.

I'd advise Spring Cleaning unless your meta/regular opponents run many enchantments or Coat of Arms, since it can kind of backfire, and 5 mana is pretty high on the curve.

Can I advise you take a look at Llanowar Elves? It gives you a 1-drop and accelerates your mana. You also might want to include some more disruption. Removal like Putrefy, Terror, Nameless Inverion (it's an elf, for Harbinger) etc. and/or discard such as Distress, Blackmail, Mind Rot etc to complement Nath.

If you want a bit more synergy, Elvish Archers, Lys-Alana Bowmaster and Thornweald Archer perform well with both Greatbow Doyen and Imperious Perfect/the rest of the elf tribal stuff. Lys-Alana Bowmaster also has synergy with both the Doyen and the other elves. Elvish Archer, having first strike, really enjoys being pumped by both lords. Thornweald Archer gives you options against both flyers and really big stompies.

Not a bad elf-deck.

You definately have the numbers working well for the coats/door, using the promenade(s) and the imperious perfect. (Which both work very well with magistrate, and the archers as well) I'm not quite sure what the gate is in this deck for though - I mean, you most likely plan on using magistrate, coat, door, or the archers to win. It doesn't seem like you'll need protect while attacking, with all of the pumping. (Unless maybe that's a back-up plan) Other than that, maybe you could try to get ahold of a heedless one or two, and take out one or two of the archers (trample + ALL elves in play)

I realize that you probably plan on using them defensively, because they can block flyers, but you have a nice set-up for life-gain, and might not need to worry about it anyway.

overall, it's not too shabby. (you might also want to consider adding a champion or two, for one of the perfect, unless you're very set on producing major numbers, in which case, instead of a champion, you might want to consider adding some "seeker of skybreak(s)"

I would probably reccomend a card drawing mechanic, or some mana producing workability. (seeing as they are elves) 8/10. Nice deck

need's mana accel, and obviously wren's run packmaster. The packmaster/harbinger combo is something all elf decks should have in them. Turn 3 you should have a 5/5 that can spawn tolkens with deathtouch out and when it dies you tutor up another one.

I thought a bit more, I believe your using this for type 2 if I'm not mistaken, take out coat of arms because of it's casting cost and its relatively small effect on the game. By the time you want to play it its probably near the end of the game already.

next take out the gate because you shouldn't be afraid of loosing an elf or two, magic is like chess, sometimes you need to sacrifice a few pieces also the odds are that your opponent will have things to destroy it with, and he will most likely play them when you attack and then desimate the cards you wanted to protect with it.

door of destinies, ditch it, it takes way to long, on turn 4 you don't want to be playing long term cards.

eyeblight's ending.....eh, play around with it and other destruction spells, just not terror since the popular deck types out there all involve black (I.E. Elves, Goblins, and Faeries, manaquin).

definitly replace spring cleaning with a more effective destructive spell.

"I'd advise Spring Cleaning unless your meta/regular opponents run many enchantments or Coat of Arms, since it can kind of backfire, and 5 mana is pretty high on the curve."

- All my regular opponents play allot of enchantments, my worst enemy is a defensive white kithkin deck with story circle, oblibionring, battle mastery and so on. To be honest i didnt notice that coat gave to all not just my own... but still when people have maybe 3 or 4 of a matching kind i whould have atleast 10.

And like i fixed in my notes is that it is type 2 and it is supposed to stay that way so some of the archers wont work.


"I'm not quite sure what the gate is in this deck for though"

I use the gate to be able to attack with 6 tokens when he has 5 strong creatures witch will lead to none of mine dying and him taking damage. But i can also aggre that it whould be a good point to take it out to get my cards down to 60.


Allot of my comments are mentioning Eyeblight's Ending, and i can say many of my enemies use creatures that they don't attack with they just sit there and bug the shit out of me :P like Platinum Angel, Lim-Dul the Necromancer and some more. Like u might have noticed Terror dosn't work on those 2. And i also want to be able to search for them with harbinger if one of those are in the game.


"door of destinies, ditch it, it takes way to long, on turn 4 you don't want to be playing long term cards"

-Yeah i do :P We realy often play 4 people all against eachother at the same time, so long term yes please


Now that people are mentioning taking out coat.. i can see why... i could put it in the sidedeck and use it for my "big games" with several people.

Thanx allot for the cooments keep em cooming

Nice deck! i whould try to take the last card out though 10/10

Wery nice deck, you got to love Door of Destinies when it gets 5 counters or so

10/10

I would add in some Llanowar Elves for some good 1st turn mana acceleration because turn 2 at best you'll get 1 of 3 Wren's Wron Vanquishers and maybe a Dolmen Gate, but no other elf. This will help you achieve a turn 2, 3-mana elf.

i have an elf deck thats similar. i prefer doors over gates. and instead of 4 perfects, maybe 2 champions and 2 perfects. the majority of standard is green(goyf, troll, garruk). if u have a champion, you forestwalk right through them. have you considered garruk?

"i prefer doors over gates. and instead of 4 perfects, maybe 2 champions and 2 perfects"

- All my common enemies don't have forest decks + i dont own any Champions.. that is why i use 4 perfects, and i have the gates (like i said before) to be able to take damage on my opponent by attacking with 6 elves when he controls 5 stronger creatures with out any loss


"I would add in some Llanowar Elves for some good 1st turn mana acceleration because turn 2 at best you'll get 1 of 3 Wren's Wron Vanquishers and maybe a Dolmen Gate, but no other elf. This will help you achieve a turn 2, 3-mana elf."

- I am acctualy considering that.. since it is true exactly what you say!

So! i made som changes!!!

Took out 2 Dolmen Gate
Added 3 Llanowar Elves
Took out 1 Elvish Harbinger
Added 1 Elvish Champion
Took out 1 Imperious Perfect
Took out 1 Rhys the Exiled (cus he is legendary i figured i won't need more then 2 anyway)

Making a total of 60 cards and making me able to speed up the process with Llanowar Elves and being ableto get a Perfect / Archer / Harbinger / Champion or Rhys out on 2nd turn!

-1 jagged scar archers
+1 maralen of the mornsong
you say you play big games with alot of people so maralen will be killer as an easy tutor. if you play the same people and you have the only elves, the EBE is fine. shriekmaw is great, b/c in late game he can be aggro or a decent blocker.
i also think that wren's run packmaster should be in here. other than that, this deck looks great!!!! XD

i have noticed that you chose to omit the prowess...reason?
prowess of the fair is the biggest hate against wrath/damnation(especially if u have 2 out)
if you are only running 1 door(and cant search for it), is it really worth having?
my other elf deck is similar to this(i dont have it posted)
i went to 3 promenade's, and actually, i didnt run spring clean's... no need in my circle of players.
if u care for my suggestions.... they are as follows.
-1 door
-1 promenade
-1 gilt-leaf ambush
-1 archer
-2 spring cleaning
+4 prowess of the fair
+1 champion
+1 perfect(u can put the token in on their turn to avoid sickness)(and have blocks)
sideboard:
evolution charm's
eyes of the wisent
OBSIDIAN FREAKING AXE

Looks good. I also have an elf deck in real, haven't putted it out on mtgfanatic jet.
But the one i have can in agood starter hand get out over 50 elves in fifth round, and then pump them up with a garruk.
i think maybe you should put in garruk instead of door of destinies. hunting triad and heritage druid is also great cards for this deck. lys'alana huntmaster as well. Did you get any ideas from that.
Anyway's , elves is the best tribe. 9/10

Please comment on some of my deck back.

"-1 door
-1 promenade
-1 gilt-leaf ambush
-1 archer
-2 spring cleaning
+4 prowess of the fair
+1 champion
+1 perfect(u can put the token in on their turn to avoid sickness)(and have blocks)"

- I don't have the prowess for several reasons 1. I don't get that many tokens from it.. in a long game i might have lost 1 or 2 elves from play.. the rest have been couterspelled or oblivionringed! I have had 4 of em in.. but i don't gain to much on them! Spring Cleaning i should put up in the note that i use them cus in my opponentcircle i meet 2 white enchantment decks... (Story circle and oblivionring) i hate that.. but i am thinking of removing them cus i can get around the circle with my massive amount... but if i take em out i will put a Champion and a Perfect in...

Heck! why not! i'll do it right now xD

"But the one i have can in agood starter hand get out over 50 elves in fifth round, and then pump them up with a garruk.
i think maybe you should put in garruk instead of door of destinies. hunting triad and heritage druid is also great cards for this deck. lys'alana huntmaster as well"

- I am waiting for another Door.. i might just add a door in the deck here for show but still waiting for that Garruk... when i get him he will come in.. but right now i don't want to put him in here since it is not even close of cooming in the deck...
Hunting Triad, Heritage Druid and Lys'Alana Huntmaster i have been looking at all of these and thinking allot about the Druid and the Triad.. i had several Huntmasters in the deck but took em out to get other cards in.. thinking really hard of adding them again...

Deck edit:
-2 Spring Cleaning
+1 Elvish Champion
+1 Imperious Perfect

All elf decks are pretty much the same, but effective. I like that you added the champions to potentially make them unblockable. I personally am anti-creatures and think the best docks are the ones that can't be blocked by creatures, but this deck is ok. I don't think you would win any tournaments with it, but you might be able to compete.

this is pretty much the precon deck with a few mods, my friend's both have elf decks almost identical to this and when they do 2 headed giant it pretty much wipes the board. great deck, i mean its a 10, but no points for originality, probably more than half the type 2 elf decks are like this, similarly with most of the elemental decks posted. i know i've seen goblin decks like mine for sure. i like the additiion of the door of destinies though, some people are resisting those.

another option, since u have forests just sitting there, is Lanowar Reborn. its a futuresite land that gives a free +1+1 to w/e creature u want adn it taps for G, and it doesn't coem into play tapped. i mean if ur just sitting there w/ 11 forests, why not try 4 of those. also there was a time shifted legendary forest i had that seemed to favor elf decks, it escapes me though, check it.

Starting to get tired of the people that come in watch the deck.. give it a low rating and then don't leave a comment... thx allot i love you... NOT!


"Lanowar Reborn. its a futuresite land that gives a free +1+1 to w/e creature u want adn it taps for G, and it doesn't coem into play tapped."

- It does come in tappet :/ to bad.. so i am gonna stick with my forests!

the other one u mentioned is "Pendelhaven" and they are Legendary.. that is why i chosed to skip em.. i might put 1 or 2 in... hmm

yeah pendel, thats a fun one to have incase u don't get an imperious out right away, but if not no worries cuz its still a forest. no harm in not having it. particularly if u get hit with animate land eradicate. best to vary up ur land as much as u can, its a common combo and there are others that wreck ur land base if u dont vary it up. then ur screwed. sorry about that future site rec i forgot its a tapped land, but even so u might consider using the hidaway land from lorwyn, the mosswort bridge or w/e. yeah it taps when it shows up, but if u get no black land u may pull a nath or eyeblight that u can play w/o needing any. i say filter em in and try em out, i find that once u start tournie play u find holes in ur decks u never knew u had and then ur pimpness meter drops to negative 2. creature based decks really dont work too well outside of tribal wars so at the very least, dump coat of arms sideboard cuz it helps everyone else as much as u, and redo it for some kind of poison or control or something cuz if u went up against a nice shared fate or 800 other half blue decks, u'd get stomped, trust me. its why i have a control deck just for when i get tired of being countered all day long or having my land blown up. good luck man let the elves go forth and conquer

I have Coat of Arms in my sidedeck since i change my Door for them when i am upp against a black deck that dousn't build on creature with the same type! (or any colored deck)

i took something like this to FNM and i went 2-2. The Elvish Champion gives ALL elves forestwalk. that means your opponents changelings (COLOSSUS) get forestwalk. if your opponent plays changelings then you can't use the eye-blights. Nameless Inversions and Profane Commands are what i run instead of eye-blights.

I've been running an elf deck for years, and I'm not impressed with the new black elves. Is it really worth having 7 swamps considering you only have 6 black cards? They're great cards and all, but I think your deck could be much faster without.

I'm very against Elvish Champion when you could have Imperious Perfect. Landwalk is not worth the space, but elf production is. I just noticed Immaculate Magistrate is the new Timberwatch Elf. Neat. 9 out of 10.

I haven't played in a few years (thanks L5R); can someone re-explain Type 1 and Type 2 for me? I'm guessing type 2 is just the most recent sets, flowing back to, what, 9th edition?

you can have a maximum of 4 of each card in a deck (exept for Basic Lands) So i have maximum Imperious Perfect's...

And yes type 2 is the newest sets!

My bad, didn't notice all four there. I'd still add, say, Llanowar Elves x4 or some mana-producer before adding Elvish Champion. I just have a vendetta against him. At least it's an elf now.