Beginners Guide to Mono Uterra

Set 7.0 Mono Uterra GrowWide

Core deck:

3 Enduring Vitality 3 Bramblewood Tracker 3 Lifeblood Dryad 3 Patron of Deepwood

Recommended additions:

3 Ether Wolves 3 Shardbound Invoker 3 Aetherphage / Snowdrift Alpha / Brighttusk Sower 2 Ferocious Roar / Whispers of Dendris X Oros, Deepwood's Chosen / Rootforged Avatar / Swampmoss Ancient X Scatterspore Eidolon / Echowisp / Deepbranch Prowler 2 Call the Lightning / Dysian Siphon / Death Current

How does this deck work?

What are the recommended additions?

Any advice for playing the deck?

How do I get the cards for this deck?

Posted by konanTheBarbari on 2016-06-13 11:27:53Mono Uterra is powerful, quite easy to play, rather cheap and gives you great flexibility for deckbuilding. The main idea is to play Enduring Vitality early on, then flood the board with Bramblewood Tracker / Patron of Deepwood and buff everything with Lifeblood Dryad (+ Enduring Vitality). The combination of this 4 cards is really deadly and for the rest of the cards you are quite flexible in what to play. It won't make your deck worse if you use any of the suggested replacements (some of them are more tech choices than replacements).As said above you have quite a big flexibility to build this deck and play around with different cards. I would just not put more than 3 non Uterra cards into the deck (while 6 would be the absolute maximum). On top of that just make sure to include at least 6 cards that can create some tokens (Ether Wolves, Brighttusk Sower) to be able to get some reliable Lifeblood Dryad triggers.With the rest of the slots you can play around and optimize for the matchups that you face more often. Against decks that try to race you (so called burn decks) Call the Lightning is really good, while Aetherphage is great against spell heavy decks (or to protect you from Ambriels Edict). I the higher rarity cards and their possible (lower rarity) replacements in the same row.Another great tech choice can be to include 2 Pythobomb, against those nasty Indomitable Fiend decks. If you face decks that build one big threat (Wegu, The Ancient or Alyssa Strifeborn) you should add Death Current or Spiritcleave. You could also try some of the new raid cards like Lorus, the Unrivaled or Hive Empress, if you have those.The earlier you play Enduring Vitality the better it is usually. Just don't be too greedy. As an opener I like creatures that create tokens, ideally Patron of Deepwood. Just make sure you always play Patron before your second card (if you have a non Uterra card in hand).My recommendation would be to play Tracker as a 4/7 in PL1 if you have one Enduring Vitality active. I don't like him as an opener or if he doesn't get buffed, since you also want to build a board to get the Lifeblood Dryad trigger. Depending on your tech choices you can win most matchups, but mono Nekrium is great counter against this deck.The core of the deck consists of 3 legendaries and 9 heroics. Enduring Vitality and Patron of Deepwood (+ Rootforged Avatar / Brighttusk Sower / Shardbound Invoker) can be bought in a preconstructed deck for $5 . If you find someone to cross share a Call of Deepwood deck with you, it will only cost $10 to get 3 copies of Vitality/Tracker.It should not be too hard to get a trade for the Lifeblood Dryad here on the ladder(since it's a very old card and was easy to get). If you are lucky and ask kindly in ladder chat some of the veterans might give you copy for free.I would say the best way to get a Bramblewood Tracker is probably to forge them for 25k silver each, but you can of course try to get a trade here on the ladder. You can play the deck without any of them, but some of the matchups will definitely get worse without tracker.(Opinions expressed here are those of the article poster only and do not neccessarily reflect the opinions of Kaelari's ladder)