Dark Decks: Undying Pod

Hello everybody!

So an hour ago, I was not expecting to be writing this article. However, When I came into toys and saw John making a Birthing Pod deck, I helped him make some finishing touches, and we played a few games. As it turns out, Birthing Pod + Undying = Aggro as piss! Here's the deck we wound up putting together:

4x Birds of Paradise
2x Young Wolf
3x Strangleroot Geist
2x Viridian Elf
3x Blade Splicer
2x Fiend Hunter
2x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Hero of Bladehold
2x Acidic Slime
1x Voropede
1x Archon of Justice
1x Wurmcoil Engine
1x Sun Titan
1x Elesh Norn

4x Birthing Pod
2x Garruk Relentless
3x Green Sun's Zenith

4x Razorverge Thicket
4x Sunpetal Grove
2x Gavony Township
6x Plains
8x Forest

Birthing Pod is a very awesome strategy that honestly I'm surprised isn't more popular right now. With a Birthing Pod in play, EVERY SINGLE CREATURE is a must answer or die card! We wanted to keep our mana simple and just play 2 colors because Strangleroot Geist at GG and Fiend Hunter at 1WW and Voropede at 2GGG can't ever be in the same deck as Skaab Ruinator at 1UU or Skinrender at 2BB. Besides, this deck is already pretty good, why mess up what already works?

Basically, Strangleroot Geist is stupidly good! In case you didn't realize, this guy is going to kick your face in if you aren't prepared. Playing against him made me realize how bad it is to be a control player right now. Now only is there no great control cards, but even if there was, Undying laughs at you, and you have to play cards like Grafdigger's Cage just to make things get back to being fair, at which point you still have to make sure you can stabilize.

But not just Strangelroot Geist is sick, Young Wolf and Voropede are ballers too! I'm honestly very excited about this deck, and would honestly consider playing it at some future FNM. Just play dudes, swing, and then upgrade into a bigger scarier dude. That's how we play!

That's all I have for today, until next time, stay classy!

Ryan Lackie
Ryan.Lackie92@gmail.com
@ThingsILack
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