Legacy Survival deck

Survival is a somewhat comboish aggressive deck utilizing the namesake <c>Survival of the Fittest</c>.
The plan is to play Survival of the Fittest and discard a creature to search out another, usually <c>Squee, Goblin Nabob</c> which let's the player repeatedly use Survival and with that gain a large card advantage, tutoring for an additional card each turn for . However, this also enables the player to search for a variety of creatures to combat specific situations such as <c>Qasali Pridemage</c> to deal with opposing enchantments or artifacts, <c>Vendilion Clique</c> to mess with the opponents hand or <c>Eternal Witness</c> when in need to get a card from the graveyard back. There is also a small Reanimator component in searching out for example <c>Iona, Shield of Emeria</c> or another legendary creature and discarding it to find <c>Loyal Retainers</c>, then playing and sacrificing the Retainers to return that Legend to play.
The rest of the creatures just bring acceleration (<c>Noble Hierarch</c>) or massive beats in <c>Tarmogoyf</c> and <c>Rhox War Monk</c>.
The rest of the deck consists of cards to find the Survival such as <c>Ponder</c> and <c>Brainstorm</c> (with a number of fetch lands), or protect from opponents threats such as <c>Swords to Plowshares</c>, <c>Daze</c> and <c>Force of Will</c>.
Variants on Survival including a G/W build, a U/G build and a graveyard combo deck using <c>Necrotic Ooze</c>, <c>Triskelion</c> and <c>Phyrexian Devourer</c> were dominant during the autumn of 2010 before <c>Survival of the Fittest</c> was banned in Legacy in December of that year, killing the archetype. The rise in dominance of Survival decks was partially attributed to the printing of <c>Vengevine</c>.
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Creatures
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Rhox War Monk
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Eternal Witness
1 Rafiq of the Many
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Qasali Pridemage
Additional Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Survival of the Fittest
Lands
1 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Windswept Heath
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Savannah
1 Taiga
3 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
Sideboard
1 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Firespout
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Krosan Grip
1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Spell Pierce
1 Tormod's Crypt</d>
Category:Tournament decks