Improving Budget Growmar

[fr0stfyre1]

I’ve been experimenting with growmar, only for me to fail miserably.(Except those few times when juggernaut actually stuck and did something. I frankly don’t care a whole lot 'bout spirit, and after mucking about with archetype, I’m still stuck. The list I’m working with is something like this:

I only have one oropsisaur, and that doesn’t see a whole lot of play. are they any good? I’m reluctant to invest completely, and the one I have is form an orb. Should I go for warpup instead of okkadok? Does kolossus work with moloxi? Are kolossus and jugger redundant? should I just chuck the golem package? And I havn’t quite felt the need for draw yet, since often enough my hand is simply full due to the higher curve. I usually am not able to chuck several three drops at once, unless kujata sticks. Should I be looking at a swarm archetype instead, or should I continue to try to play on curve?

[deathsadvocate]

This is how I run things, ultimately the decks feel very average.

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DeathsAdvocate's Master Thread: Eternal Trials of Mythron

Oropisisaur is a very neat card. I even had the opportunity to spoil the card. It gives a good push towards grow being a viable archetype, and now that we have shimzar back we now have Molokai and the recently buffed Omniseer all actually working together to make a functional deck.

Aside from having the standard midrange package and the best grow units available, it does have another nifty trick. If you have Quillbeast and Oro on the field and you cast Gargantuan Growth on Quill, quill will grow right away! Rebuke can serve a similar purpose to force Oros to make things grow and the majority of the deck is rebuke proof. Getting two Oros out can also make things nigh immune to combat damage. And yes both Oro/Molokai work with tiles and Hammer.

Its a little sad that none of the oldschool grow minions make the cut, I did my best to at least make a variant that uses Kolosus to cache in on that nice self damaging ramp synergy with Oro. Unfortunately while Oro does work with hammer/tiles a unit must have grow naturally in order to proc Oros effect with self damaging ramp, and thus why Kujata is skipped completely in the first variant.

Its a fun deck that can pull off some whacky combos and some surprising bursts, but unfortunately its just to slow and vulnrable to removal/dispel to really be competitive.

[alexx55]

Im surprised noone runs Verdant in growmar, especially with Moloki

[anjosustrakr]

Here is my deck that I’ve had a lot of success with:

It’s not budget by any means, but neither is your current deck (also, Grandmaster is easily replaceable).

I only have one oropsisaur, and that doesn’t see a whole lot of play. are they any good?

They are amazing. I only have 2, which is why there are only 2 in my deck. I would recommend at least 2.

Should I go for warpup instead of okkadok

Warpup and Okkadok are both trash in my opinion, I just chose a healer (mystic would probably work too).

Does kolossus work with moloxi?

Amazingly.

Are kolossus and jugger redundant?

Not at all.

should I just chuck the golem package?

I would recommend it, yes.

And I havn’t quite felt the need for draw yet

I chose Vaath so he can grow with his minions.

Should I be looking at a swarm archetype instead, or should I continue to try to play on curve?

I think you have to play grow decks on curve.

[m00sen234]

Im not sure on visionars rarity, but i would definitely run that over kolossus. okkadok isnt terrible, but i think id rather have young silithar, or maybe celebrant to proc bond effects, and provide ramp into bigger threats.

[fr0stfyre1]

I’ve been wondering about that too. Is it any good at all? I played against a growmar once as burnhorn, and fulmination did a quick number on me before I drew lethal. It seems like a fairly good card though, compared to beastlands

[alexx55]

Well, i havent tried it (and Im not in possesion of spirit to do so, might put some spirit into grow memes next), but from my experience with the card in Gauntlet, it is way better than Endure, because you dont have to position your minions specifically, you can keep moloki in the backside while you are surrounding your enemy and everyone gets grow(its just an example, they might have just taken 2 mana tiles and still get grow), but the problem with the card is that it works ONLY with Moloki, without it i think it is too slow, in value even below Endure.