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Yeah I tried 4 Blinkmoth but it just seemed like a headache, the deck already has a stupid number of ways to win.

Do you not struggle with coloured spells if you have 8 colourless lands? That is about half of the lands in the deck. Sometimes you won't draw Springleaf/Mox/Glimmervoid.

You're probably playing 4 Darksteel Citadel too, so your colored spells are going to be thin on the ground already. Figure 3 Glimmervoid, 4 Opals and 3-4 Springleaf Drums... that's comparable to the number of a given color you'd run as a splash in a multicolor deck. It makes the BB for instant Cranial Plating a little tricky, but that's all. I'd much rather have the option of all those critters. City of Brass can help.

This assumes modern affinity btw. Legacy obviously has the option of running artifact basic lands, which are the better choice.

Local shop apparently has 12 boxes for $185 each atm. Kinda surprising since the shop is always full of asshats. Want to pick one up but moneys a little tight and it would just sit upopened next to my arsenal anyways.

I've been playing lots of draft/sealed and decided I want to dip my toes into standard. Given that I like the idea behind the populate mechanic, I bought the Strength of Selesnya event deck fully aware that the default configuration isn't the greatest. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tune it so that it isn't terrible? Here is the deck list for reference:http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazin...ly/arcana/1227

My initial thoughts right now are the obvious ones: Add "Voice of Resurgence", more "Advent of the Wurm", add "Temple Gardens", but does anyone else have any ideas given the current standard meta? I could add more Godless Shrines but it seems like a waste when only one creature in the deck uses black mana.

Populate by itself isn't the strongest mechanic, but I have seen some rogue decks do alright at FNM using just Selesnya colors. In both instances, they basically played a shitload of tokens and Intangible Virtue. One of em used Collective Blessing as a finisher, which was surprisingly strong against the creature heavy environment we're in right now.

I still think both decks would have benefited from a splash of black for Lingering Souls and Abrupt Decay / Putrefy.

Yeah the pre-built deck has three Lingering Souls already. I also like your idea to add Abrubt Decay and Putrefy. I would then add a full set of Godless Shrines.

My real problem is figuring out what to remove, so I can Voice, Advent, Putrefy, and Abrubt Decay.

From the pre-built? Lots of things. The guildmages can go, as can Champion of Lambholt. Call of the Conclave is competing with Voice for the 2 slot and you don't need both. Doomed Traveler might actually be okay here, but he's just as likely to be crap. A mana dork like Avacyn's Pilgrim might suit you better to ramp you into turn 3 wurms. Maybe something like this:

Creatures (16)
4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Voice of Resurgence
4 Loxodon Smiter
2 Scion of Vitu-Ghazi
4 Thragtusk

Spells (20)
3 Selesnya Charm
4 Lingering Souls
4 Advent of the Wurm
2 Collective Blessing
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Putrefy
3 Rootborn Defenses

Lands (24)
4 Temple Garden
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Godless Shrine
4 Woodland Cemetery
1 Overgrown Tomb
3 Forest
1 Plans
2 Gavony Township

It's just a spitball list, but it populates without having to really rely on it. You can get some surprisingly large creatures on the field pretty fast in those colors. It'd be nice to find room for Farseek as well.

Er... Voice of Resurgence, Loxodon Smiter, token spells... win?

It's not top tier, but he was interested in a populate strategy. That's basically just W/G goodstuff. I'm not certain it could survive an aggro rush without losing early blockers or lifegain in the sideboard, but it'd do alright vs midrange and has several things that are stubborn to kill.

Sticking to Selesnya or even splash black without running Aristocrats is hard, because you're cutting off a lot of strategies. Bant Flash is another option, with Snapcasters and what not, but it's an entirely different deck.

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Thank you for the help. After getting a 20 minute thrashing by my coworker who plays competitively I've decided to try doing a Maya Aggro deck instead since that's fairly close to the colours I like to play. That said I think I'll still try to make a rogue deck based around populate and what you've posted gives me a good starting point.

Are old cards even worth anything anymore? All my cards are like revised/4th/ice age with some mirage and shit thrown in.

Gorehack_sl said:

Are old cards even worth anything anymore? All my cards are like revised/4th/ice age with some mirage and shit thrown in.

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Depending on the cards, they're worth quite a lot.

Gorehack_sl said:

Are old cards even worth anything anymore? All my cards are like revised/4th/ice age with some mirage and shit thrown in.

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Main money card from that era are the dual lands I think. Some other cards are worth some money as well, probably quickest to just go to a pricing site for the sets you have and look for high $$ cards and see if you have any of them.

Vilgan_sl said:

Main money card from that era are the dual lands I think. Some other cards are worth some money as well, probably quickest to just go to a pricing site for the sets you have and look for high $$ cards and see if you have any of them.

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Duel lands are way before that era. Lion's Eye Diamond is worth a bit. Dark Depths from ice age too. There's not many cards worth more than a couple dollars from 4th until Urza block unfortunatly.

Depths isnt ice age its Coldsnap. Highest Ice age card is necro which is like 6 bucks.

The Tutors from Mirage can also be sold fairly quickly at local shops, since the EDH crowd gobbles them up.