[[Standard Development]] Massacre Morph

[justinhering]

Here's the idea...Mass Polymorph into Terastodon and at least 2 Massacre Wurms. Put the Massacre Wurm ability on the stack, blow up three permanents with Terastodon and then apply Massacre Wurm's damage to the elephant tokens.

With 2 Wurms it deals 18 damage, plus any other creatures with toughness 4 or less. Mass Polymorph = win.

This is fairly similar to the Hagra Diabolist version of Mass Poly except the creatures you are left with are more relevant after the polymorph.

Here's my initial decklist:

3 Massacre Wurm
1 Terastodon

3 Awakening Zone
4 Explore
1 Foresee
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Growth Spasm
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Mass Polymorph
4 Preordain
4 See Beyond
4 Spawning Breath

3 Mountain
2 Raging Ravine
2 Evolving Wilds
2 Terramorphic Expanse
8 Island
3 Khalni Garden
4 Forest

Sideboard:
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Fog
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
2 Jace Beleren
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Pelakka Wurm
1 Platinum Emperion
4 Spell Pierce
1 Stormtide Leviathan

I like Spawning Breath, as it creates tokens and kills Hawks, Cobras and Inkmoths. I may play with the numbers going 3 and 3 with Lightning Bolt, which is really effective against equipped hawks.

I also considered play 1-of Mortarpod to deal with decks that feature a lot of 1/1s. With all the token generation, I should have no problem finding a creature to attach and sacrafice...maybe sideboard?

The sideboard also features more traditional Mass Polymorph targets for certain matchups. Platinum Emperion is really hard for Valakut to deal with since it has no removal of that scale.