Beastly Simic Storm Herd Deck (G/W/U)

[Justmcnew]

Lands:

3 City of Brass
6 Forest
5 Island
5 Plains
2 Mountain

Creatures:

4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Ravenous Baloth
3 Loxodon Hierarch
2 Academy Rector
2 Joiner Adept

Other Spells:

2 Mana Flare
3 Worldly Tutor
3 Storm Herd
4 Farseek
3 Standardize
3 Kodama's Reach

Artifacts:

3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Bottle Gnomes

The basic strategy to this deck is this, you pretty much try to get a butt load of creatures in play including Ravenous Baloth, then play Standardize to give all your creatures the Beast Creature Type so you can sac them off with Baloth's ability to gain craploads of life for each creature you sac. Then If you have enough mana, you play Storm Herd to get a buttload of 1/1 flyers in play equal to your life total and swing for game.

Any help, advice, or suggestions I'd really appreciate it.

[rctan9]

Hmm, I don't want to ruin your strategy or anything, but I think with your colors, you can just play control until Storm Herd hits. If you add in counters, you can counter the threats, and use Faith's Fetters and Overrule for life gain. Ravenous Baloth and Loxodon Hierarch for walls while you save to 10 mana. I mean, once you storm herd for anything more than 12 or so, you basically win unless they have mass removal. In that case you'll want to counter that lol.

[Justmcnew]

I managed to uprgade my deck this time, as you can tell from above. I had difficulty getting Heartbeat of Spring to cast Storm Herd faster so I went with Vernal Bloom instead. I also threw in some Farseeks for more mana fixing besides Kodama's Reach.

Some of the new creatures I threw in the deck are Loxodon Hierarch and Bottle Gnomes for massive life gain to fuel the win condition of casting Storm Herd.

Mistform Wakecaster is also in here which is an extra Standardize If I don't draw into one in time regardless If I use the Top.

As for the counterspells, I've had a hard time finding space for them in this deck. I tried to find some Overrules and Faith's Fetters at my store but they didn't have very many of them.

Maybe I should try to squeeze in some Voidslime's, maybe Mana Leak's, or Counterspell in general.

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[Yurka]

VoidSlime and Counter spell would be slightly harder to cast since the GUU and the UU costs. Then again, Mana Leak is 1U and nice early, but isn't great mid/late game. VoidSlime costs more and is slower, but can do more. Like for threats already out on the table. That part would be up to you.

[Justmcnew]

Any other advice or suggestions?

Edit: Just recently upgraded the deck.