I run her with Lyzolda the blood witch and jund hackblades. Along with other tri colored creatures. Worked out ok excpet i only have 2 lyzolda and 2 savra. Ill get more.
Posted By:
XTwistedsoulX
(5/23/2010 11:13:46 PM)
It's a great card for life gain, but difficult to set up a kill condition - other than forcing your opponents to sacrifice all their creatures... I can see how she could be beast with say, Carrion Feeder and a mess of black creatures.
Posted By:
themlsna
(6/3/2010 3:32:38 AM)
You could always pair her with swirl the mists to have both abilities trigger on the same color, and since you're running green the color problem won't that bad.
Then just add sakura tribe elder and golgari germination, as well as a couple of good sac-engines (vampire aristocrat to hit your opponent for alot after clearing his side of the board, or perilous forays to go crazy with mana and increase your chances of drawing useful stuff)
Posted By:
exterion
(7/10/2010 3:21:00 AM)
I have a golgari deck centered around this and shambling shell, and any other creature, usually mortician beetle.
example, turn 1, mortician beetle, turn 2 golgari thug, turn 3, shambling shell, turn 4, savra, sac the shell mortician beetle at the least gets +2/+2 if you opponent has anything. Dredge it up and GO, the best i got the beetle to was a 20/20, and if they manage to kill it, just sac the thug or vigor mortis it. your opponents will never have creatures, and you will have a beast. works epically well in multi-player games, got out this combo in a five for all and it soon turned to a 4 on 1, scary combo.
Posted By:
Kyzar
(8/21/2010 6:26:43 PM)
Shambling Shell is worth a mnetion no?
he is his own sac engine
on top of making them sac a creature every turn while you're building a progressively larger threat
Posted By:
The_Sturm
(10/15/2010 3:16:08 AM)
It's actually pretty easy to have lots of creatures that are black/green, because Worm Harvest (maybe paired with Dakmor Salvage) allows you to create a very large number of them every turn! :) You still need a sacrifice outlet, but the engine creating the creature tokens just needs certain cards in your graveyard and can't be dealt with easily.. By the way, such decks that sacrifice creatures can easily return her to play with yet another card that simply waits in your graveyard: Dread Return! :)
Posted By:
cats_and_me
(11/21/2010 6:05:28 AM)
My opponents go insane when I have her in play with Golgari Germination and Grave-Shell Scarab/Shambling Shell.
For life gaining, Golgari Brownscale works really well with her, if you have a card to continually sac the lizard, such as Doomgape. Basically you'll be gaining 5 life everytime you sac the lizard, and it keeps coming back thanks to its dredge ability.
Posted By:
chocolate_lightning
(4/9/2011 1:28:15 PM)
Savra is one of my favorite cards. Her effect can be devastating, but she's expensive for a grizzly bear. She's a perfect Johnny card. With cards like shambling shell, skeletal vampire, and thoughtpicker witch she can really shine. She also loves grim backwoods.
Basically, Savra is a grave pact. Except that Savra requires a lot of thought and creativity to make her work, whereas grave pact requires a black deck with creatures. Gravepact is banned in my playgroup, on my insistence. Savra has a deck built around her that I play regularly.
Posted By:
Gargantula
(6/12/2012 3:34:33 PM)
I can imagine decks built around her creature destruction engine. Goes well with gravepact
Posted By:
Pwnsaw
(10/3/2009 11:54:21 PM)
This card appeals on so many levels. It's flavorful, works with many combos, and is absolutely devastating with a dedicated strategy. There are so many ways to make the 'cost' of losing creatures symmetrically nothing of the sort.
Posted By:
r-e-meatyard
(8/21/2009 1:02:45 AM)