The Retired-Dead Battery

Named after a song by Pitchshifter, Dead Battery was my take on the Quirion Dryad combo decks of old. Effectively, the goal was to play a QD, then all the spells you can to make the Dryad huge-and swing for a lot of damage.

My update came after Shadowmoor block came out, giving me access to multicolor spells without needing all the multicolor mana. Remember: a card has all the qualities that the colors of mana you pay for it, so Gilder Bairn counts as a blue and a green spell. I thought this was pretty clever.

3 Lorescale Coatl
2 Karstoderm
3 Simic Guildmage
4 Quirion Dryad
2 Gilder Bairn
4 Safehold Elite
3 Leech Bonder
2 Trygon Predator 

3 Fate Transfer
4 Snakeform
4 Oona's Grace
2 Simic Charm 

7 Forest
4 Flooded Grove
8 Island
3 Botanical Sanctum 

2 Hunt the Weak

And here we are.

Why take this apart? Well, first it doesn't combo like it ought to. Second; it's too cute for its own good: Fate Transfer is a Glory of Cool Things idea-

Hey wait. Ikoria has all kinds of different counters now. I could totally use Fate Transfer to-

NOPE. See, that's how it starts, every time. Never with fundamentals, but with a pie in the sky idea. And those ideas can be a lot of fun to execute, I'm finding myself wanting to really hone in on those concepts one way or another so that they genuinely work, and aren't just hopes. 

Anyway; my point is that this deck couldn't construct those Turn X = you're dead. It was a middling aggro deck with a sometimes neat trick and that wasn't overwhelming, nor was it engaging the opponent either. Is there a good deck with good cards here? Yeah, somewhere. But this isn't it.