Also, the Elemental lord guy is in the Elemental precon, so that might keep his price low.

I think Lorwyn goblins opens the door for some interesting black/red Goblin deck, but it might take another expansion to get to where it needs to be. Of course that B3 Grenade/-5/-5 thing would be great with Squee, or the BR goblin that resurrects. And the black Goblin champion is a pretty sweet addition to a goblin deck.

Faeries are ick.

Merfolk I might shoot for. I’ll look back at my merfolk of old. I’ll base the deck on The merfolk that allows you to tap merfolk to grind, then merfolk that allow you to do things when they become tapped, and then other merfolk still that do something whenever a merfolk is tapped.

I’ll tap this guy to grind for one, when he becomes tapped I can pay U1 to bounce a permanent because of his own ability, and I gain 1 life for each of that merfolk that looks to that. Grinding, life gaining, bouncing works together well. I slow you down, deck you and buffer my life total. I think I could make it work with the blue Planeswalker. The white one could help, but not as much.

I’m trying to figure out what to do with the Elf deck to make it cool rather than just functional. I’ve found a couple of interesting combos with older elves, but nothing that cool. I don’t know that black brings enough to the table to warrant inclusion. The BG3 guy is sweet, but the black elves don’t interest me much.

Was there a guy that reduces the cost of giants by two? Because he would seem to be mandatory. Giants could be pretty cool.

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I don’t much care for the Goblins, Faeries, or the Merfolk. Elves do some neat things, but I don’t think I’ll build an elf deck. The Kithkin I like, but Brigid is my only standout right now. Giants I’ll probably play with, since they feel like the goblins of old with higher P/T and casting cost, and Elementals are going to be great to play with.

Kithkin went from an impossible theme to a viable one, a cool one, but Elementals win in my head.

Simple combos can form the backbone of the deck I have in mind.
Smokebraider x4
Flamekin Brawler x2
Ceaseless Searblades x4
Flamekin Bladewhirl x4

Look at that, Smokebraider accellerates AND if he inflates the Brawler +2/0, then each of the Searblades get +3/0 because 3 elemntal abilities just triggered!

But we can do better than that!
We can go backwards and get older Elementals.
The double striking, firebreathing Char Elemental guy.

Inner-Flame Igniter
Incandescent Soulstroke
Soulbright Flamekin

And old Elementals.

And then, the shocker, all those crazy Incarnations like Vigor, can be cast with just two Smokebraiders helping.

Sure, I’ll make an elf deck, it might kick ass, but I think Elementals will be fun and new and different. Way cooler than my mediocre beasts deck.

Imagine the realistic fun of using the Incandescent Soulstroke to bring out a Nova Chaser, giving him haste to go with his trample and he has +1/+1. An 11/3 Trample Haste that dies at the end of turn.

Then do I pull them out and make a stack?
So messy!