CATASTROPHE

4 x Think Twice
3 x Nullify
3 x Dissolve
2 x Archaeomancer
2 x Inspiration
4 x Shock
2 x Anger of the Gods
3 x Tectonic Rift
4 x Elvish Visionary
4 x Cultivate
2 x Terra Stomper
2 x Plekka Worm
1 x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

4 x Island
4 x Mountain
4 x Forest
4 x Izzet Guildgate
4 x Gruul Guildgate
4 x Simic Guildgate


Drawing, counters, and removal to hold off the enemy while you ramp to your big boys! Tectonic Rift has two uses murder off your enemies vital lands in hopes of crippling their ability to cast certain spells (which really can hurt in the current meta), or make your dudes unblockable for the killing blow!

I am currently playing around with this deck once more. It still works awesomely! I currently am tweaking lands as guildgates and cultivate seem counter intuitive. However, sometimes with less guildgates it takes a little longer to be able to cast certain key spells. (Anger, counters, archeo, sometimes the big boys.) I am thinking I had the land right the way it is currently reflected here.

Have you modified it since then, best? Gonna try this beast tonight, already feel sorry for my opponents This build rocked yesterday!

So I figured I'd take a look through this thread and see if anyone else had anything similar. Turns out that self-bounce with Warstorm Surge is a common theme. I was surprised because I'd never had it played against me but I use mine quite a bit.

I wanted to build and playtest my own a little bit before checking out anyone else's, and here's what I came up with:

Species Surger

4 x Simic Guildgate
4 x Gruul Guildgate
4 x Izzet Guildgate
6 x Forest
3 x Island
3 x Mountain

4 x Elvish Visionary
4 x Think Twice
3 x Ground Assault
2 x Genesis Hydra

4 x Pestermite
4 x Frost Lynx

4 x Cultivate
3 x Saruli Gatekeepers
1 x Vengevine

3 x Species Gorger

2 x Warstorm Surge
1 x Soul of Zendikar
1 x Inferno Titan


Elvish Visionary and Think Twice keep you churning through your deck and hitting land drops. Quickling is a value card that lets you save key pieces of your combo or reuse beneficial EtBs. Genesis Hydra is a combo enabler because it lets you dig deep for your pieces and it's a great creature to recast every turn for immense value. Ground Assault is our removal for the opposing big guns because most of our Warstorm Surge triggers are only Shocks.

Frost Lynx and Pestermite let you annoy your opponent and slow him down until you get your pieces together.

Saruli Gatekeepers is stabilization against aggressive strategies and the Vengevine is just an amazing creature. In a Species Gorger deck, there's a good chance you can cast two creatures in a single turn to keep this guy coming back.

Then we have the two six-mana bombs, Soul of Zendikar and Inferno Titan; Titan has an amazing EtB and the Soul poops out dudes to flood the board or trigger Surge.

He doesn't fit the bounce theme, but he can create tokens and those tokens trigger Warstorm Surge.

Species Surger

4 x Simic Guildgate
4 x Gruul Guildgate
4 x Izzet Guildgate
6 x Forest
3 x Island
3 x Mountain

4 x Elvish Visionary
4 x Think Twice
3 x Ground Assault
2 x Genesis Hydra

4 x Pestermite
4 x Frost Lynx

4 x Cultivate
3 x Saruli Gatekeepers
1 x Vengevine

3 x Species Gorger

2 x Warstorm Surge
1 x Soul of Zendikar
1 x Inferno Titan