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		Oh! Baby! Oh!
		How my business did grow!
		Now, chopping one tree at a time was too slow.
		
	 	So I quickly invented my Super-axe-hacker	
		which whacked off four Truffula Trees at one smacker.
		We were making Thneeds four times as fast as before!
		And that Lorax?...He didn't show up any more. 
		
					- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Deck Concept:

Few things can beat a big creature deck for power and effectiveness, but big creatures usually can't make it out until late in a game, perhaps at a point when its too late to make a difference. So speed becomes a problem. That is the focus of this deck. Named after the character of "the Onceler" from the Dr. Seuss story, The Lorax, its is designed to make use of two great Ice Age speed cards, Tinder Wall, and Orcish Lumberjack, both of which, like the Onceler who cut down Truffula trees to make thneeds, involve sacrifing themselves or forests for extra mana, and hopefully quickly puuting out the big creatures and stomping your opponent into the dust before he knows what is going on.

THE ONCELER

This deck is 66 cards in size.

RED SPELLS

18 Cards Total

2 Eternal Warriors (Once those big creatures are out, use `em as walls too!)
4 Incinerates (Good bye Will-o-the-Wisps and other regenerating blockers)
2 Lava Bursts (Hit a creature, or finish off a weakened foe!)
3 Orcish Lumberjacks (Every forest becomes a Red/Green Black Lotus!)
2 Rock Hydras (the record is an eight-header on Turn 3!)
1 Shatter (just `coz)
4 Shivan Dragons (Flying, Firebreathing Five/Fives. These fellows are the Kings of the Sky!)

GREEN SPELLS

19 Cards Total

2 Craw Giants (With built in Trample and Rampage...they're fun.)
2 Fyndhorn Elders (Tap for GG - Instill `em with energy for twice that!)
2 Fyndhorn Elves (For a quick build up)
2 Instill Energies (Use `em on the Lumberjacks for real fun!)
1 Lure (Slap in on a Craw Giant for a laugh, or on a "sacrificial elf" to let the big boys through!)
1 Regrowth (Always good)
2 Scaled Wurms (Expensive, but only requires one green mana to cast.)
3 Tinder Walls (Gain two red mana whenever you want-even after casting)
2 Wild Growths (put `em on a mountain to keep green mana out...those forests go fast)
2 Yavimaya Gnats (Flying regenerating blockers...Annoying for your opponent)

ARTIFACTS

6 Cards Total

1 Ashnod's Altar (When forests are depleted sacrifice Lumberjacks for 2 colorless mana each)
1 Jewel Amulet (A "mini"-mox emerald or ruby - you make the call.)
1 Joven's Tools (Makes you creatures unblockable except by walls.)
1 Colossus of Sardia (A 9/9 trample artifact creature - be sure to Instill Energy him or Eternal Warrior him.)
1 Green Mana Battery (A reserve source of mana)
1 Red Mana Battery (A reserve source of mana)
1 Sol Ring (Always handy)

LANDS

23 Cards Total

11 Forests (Tap `em and then Lumberjack `em for Green plus three Red or Green!)
7 Mountains (you'll need `em)
1 Pendelhaven (Keep those Lumberjacks safe from Tims.)
4 Taigas (Red or Green and can be Lumberjacked as a Forest too.)

We welcome your comments on this Deck. Please email us at sah@netcom.com and put down in the Reference portion of your e-mail "Re: THE ONCELER" so your responses can be passed along. Thanks.

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