Create a fun multiplayer deck, that can become a decent duel deck with only a few minor substitutions.
Aside: My Definition of a Fun Deck:
A deck that I enjoy playing, that others enjoy playing against (So keep the Stax under control, and focus more on creatures that are impossible to kill). I like synergies and combos, but not infinite combos. More cool little interactions and rules quirks than omfgmindlslaverlockrrr.
I enjoy decks with: Big Creatures and massive Token Swarms, fortunately, Green and Black both deliver.
I want to explore a deck with lots of Sac and Recur effects. Re-using my creatures as many times as needed to thwart the many board wipes prevalent in Commander games.
Lots of ETB and LTB effects, Sacrifice outlets, recursion, Reanimator effects to sneak fatties out early, etc.
Gameplan: Lock the board down with multiple grave pact effects, and other removal. Dump large creatures into the GY and reanimate to start chipping away at opponents health, or build up a large token army and overrun for the win. Overwhelming Stampede is rather nasty with a single Doomgape and a swarm of 1/1's.
So:
Others:
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb
3 Island
4 Swamp
4 Tectonic Edge
Creatures:
4 Necropede
4 Ichor Rats
3 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
2 Disfigure
3 Distortion Strike
2 Duress
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
3 Doom Blade
4 Mana Leak
3 Memoricide
3 Cancel
3 Grasp of Darkness
2 Disfigure
3 Marsh Casualties
2 Duress
1 Doom Blade
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
Ah, right. I guess that takes some of the usefulness out of it.
If they cast a spell at the creature attached the the Lash, they instantly take 2 poison counters. That's a pretty good deterrent right there.
^^ This. It doesn't hurt that she can keep Hand of the Preators healthy either, tho.
3x Arbor Elf
4x Llanowar Elves
4x Cultivate
Critters:
4x Garruk's Companion
4x Leatherback Baloth
2x Bellowing Tanglewurm
3x Terra Stomper
2x Wurmcoil Engine
3x Asceticism
3x Garruk Wildspeaker
2x Overwhelming Stampede
4x Vines of Vastwood
22x Forest
1x Bellowing Tanglewurm (Cause 2 really isn't enough)
4x Gravity Well (So many flyers in my metagame...)
1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (Anti-Mill)
3x Obstinate Baloth (Eat it, Blue)
3x Summoning Trap (Eat it again, Blue)
3x Tajuru Preserver (Anti-Eldrazi)
3x Overgrown Battlement
4x Llanowar Elves
4x Cultivate
4x Garruk's Companion
4x Leatherback Baloth
3x Bellowing Tanglewurm
4x Leyline of Vitality
3x Omnath, Locus of Mana
4x Protean Hydra
4x Vines of Vastwood
3x Garruk Wildspeaker
3x Cystbearer
3x Hand of the Praetors
4x Ichorclaw Myr
4x Plague Stinger
3x Putrefax
Misc:
3x Birds of Paradise
3x Doom Blade
4x Livewire Lash
Pumps:
3x Prey's Vengeance
4x Vines of Vastwood
3x Virulent Swipe
Land:
11x Forest
8x Swamp
4x Verdant Catacombs
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (for Mill Decks)
3 Memoricide (For Combo Decks. Sucks that all your Fauna Shaman's are dead, doesn't it?)
4 Nature's Claim (For Artifact Decks.)
4 Nihil Spellbomb (For Vengvine. Grr)
3 Vampire Hexmage (For Plainswalkers and Poison Decks)
Putrefax may be leaving for more pumps. Other than that, I'm pretty satisfied with this deck.