Insidious Plants (Legacy)

Deck that tries to leverage Insidious Roots and Undergrowth Recon.

Some remarks and combos:

• Insidious Roots and Tortured Existence
• Insidious Roots with recurring Dryad Arbor(s) via Undergrowth Recon(s)
• Returning Dryad Arbor with Undergrowth Recon No. 1, triggering any Bloodghasts, then sacrificing the Dryad Arbor and Bloodghasts in play with Plagued Rusalka or Phyrexian Plaguelord (or one of the other creatures with the sacrifice-ability) on the upkeep stack, returning Dryad Arbor with Undergrowth Recon No.2, repeating all the above mentioned shit… while x Insidious Roots generate tons of +1/+1-growing plant tokens
• Undergrowth Recon can of course also recur Wasteland & Ghost Quarter for land-destruction as well as Nurturing Peatland for extra-cards
• Smothering Abomination is nuts with token generation and Phyrexian Plaguelord / Plagued Rusalka, draws plenty of cards... especially when combined with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (which was printed EXACTLY for this deck)
• Anger is mega-useful so that newly generated plant-tokens are immediately usable for mana generation (via Insidious Roots); thereby this deck is way more „combo-ing off“ due to a stream of mana allowing to do shit (Taiga included as the mountain for Anger)
• Grabbing Dryads from the graveyard with Life from the Loam also triggers… Insidious Roots
• Quickly replenish life "on demand" with Tortured Existence and Golgari Brownscale (restore 1 life per 1 black mana)
• Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is the "endgame" bomb. Once you have big & fat plant tokens, Ayli can easily skyrocket you on 30+ life, unlocking her exile-capability. You may identify Ayli as win-more card - which is absolutely correct ;-) But at least her low CC and her "sacrifice a creature for (1)" mana ability is very useful also in the pre-endgame

Open decisions:

• Bloodthrone Vampire is a cheaper (than e.g. Phyrexian Plaguelord) creature with a sacrificing capability that does NOT require mana to activate - still unsure whether Viscera Seer would be better for this slot, because its scry-ability is of course super-nice. The Bloodthrone Vampire has more "meat on demand" and could block or protect itself against Lightning Bolt or the like

Learnings:

• At the beginning I thought I have to include a lot of plant-type creatures, so that they take advantage from Insidious Roots +1/+1-triggers. But once the Insidious Roots machine is up and running, you typically generate such insane amounts of ever-growing plant-tokens, that those 2-3 other plant-type creatures you may have in play simply do not matter at all.
• Gigantic plant-tokens loudly call for Brawn - but as you have often so stupid big amounts of huge plant-tokens, it simply does not matter whether they have trample or not - in this regard Anger is way more useful