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The Magic Chest 19: Remembrance
Remembrance works pretty well in any deck with a lot of creatures, especially if the creatures have a good comes-into-play effect, like Bone Shredders or Avalanche Riders. I wanted to try something a bit different and more defensive, though, so I focused on land fetching and a bit of utility. Land fetching gives the deck a lot of mana, which it needs to be able to recast creatures. Remembrance: Multiples are useful, so playing with four is a good idea. Ashnod's Altar: An easy way to sacrifice your creatures and the extra mana will come in handy. Fodder Cannon: An alternative way to sacrifice your creatures. This deck should be able to generate plenty of mana to use it reliably. I wouldn't play more than two though. Sterling Grove: It can tutor for a Remembrance, but not for an Ashnod's Altar. With nothing else it could tutor for in the main deck, I'd only put a few in the sideboard against Disenchants. Enlightened Tutor: Works better in this deck. Gaea's Blessing: To give the deck a way to keep going indefinitely. When you have the fourth of a creature in your hand, blessing the three in your graveyard back into your library means you'll never run out. Wood Elves: With an altar and Remembrance in play, you can cast all four of them in a row, because the first one gets you an untapped Forest and 2 colorless mana from sacrificing it, which gives exactly enough to cast the second one. Yavimaya Granger: More lands. Yavimaya Elder: The Elder doesn't put the lands directly into play, which can be a problem, because your hand will fill up fast under a Remembrance. The extra card advantage easily makes up for it though. Silverglade Elemental: Because Silverglade Elemental costs 5 mana, it usually isn't worth using as mana acceleration, but in this deck it fits the theme while providing necessary beef. Radiant's Dragoons: Very useful against weenie decks and burn decks. In casual play, you always have to be prepared to deal with a big damage spell like Fireball or Drain Life and gaining 20 life tends to be a good way to do that. If 20 isn't enough, just use Gaea's Blessing to reuse them. Reliquary Monk: There are a few cards that can give this deck fits, like Worship, so Disenchants are a good idea. Using the monk is risky, because if your opponent has no targets in play, you could end up destroying one of your own permanents. On the plus side, with a Remembrance in play, once you draw one, you can use them all. Benalish Emissary: Spot land destruction can be useful and later in the game, with Gaea's Blessing to reuse them, they can be used to cripple your opponent in case you're afraid of something nasty like a Stroke of Genius when you only have a few cards in your library. Verdeloth, the Ancient: White and green don't have a lot of good X spells to use all the potential mana this deck can generate on. Verdeloth is a good option, though. If the Silverglade Elementals can't cut it, two Verdeloths should be able to. Cast one when you have a lot of mana available and the next turn, sacrifice it and all the saprolings to Ashnod's Altar. You'll get your second Verdeloth from Remembrance and enough mana to double the number of saprolings. Use Gaea's Blessing to shuffle your Verdeloth back into your deck and you're ready to do it again next turn. Repeat until you have enough saprolings to swarm your opponent. Alternatively, use a Magma Mine. It's not as stylish as the saproling option, but it'll work. Swords to Plowshares: It'd probably be better to put these in the main deck, but I'm playing them in the sideboard. They get rid of huge creatures before I have enough creatures to block and kill them.
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